Youtube comments of Helen Trope (@heliotropezzz333).

  1. The woman who can't trust Obama doesn't look as though she trusts her hairdresser either.
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  2. The woman who said Rishi Sunak could be another Modi, well Modi is a bigot in his own country - bigotted and prejudiced against anyone who is not a Hindu.
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  3. All three Union leaders wiped the floor with them. I watched the whole session with the Union leaders, over 1.5 hours. It's worth hearing it all.
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  4. I like the way Sheinbaum looks so unfazed by Trump's antics.
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  5. And the Dutch only understood the question in terms of trade (merchants). They used to have a saying 'God is good, but trade is better'.
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  6. Many political leaders have been lawyers. The response to this was someone saying they'd rather be led by a lawyer rather than a liar. The Mail does not show you that though.
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  7. That's illegal. Arrest and jail them.
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  8. It takes 10-13 years to train a doctor - 46 doctors dead - that's a huge dent in their health resources with no prospect of easy replacement..
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  9. 0.22. She looks at him like he should be impressed but as soon as he's impressed she starts to try reining him back.
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  10. He's basically asking why isn't the government continuing to squeeze public sector employees instead of wealthy landowners that vote Tory. (Didn't the Tory government 'punish' those who don't vote Tory).
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  11. It's amazing that Trump has got this far in life and even made it to President without ever having to be the slightest bit competent.
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  12. He looks sad in moments of reflection, as if he's thinking regretfully about the break up and loss of Led Zeppelin, which was his band above all.
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  13. This brings me to tears. The heroes should always be remembered. I know there's a list of many of them in a museum. Why not make it more widely available.
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  14. The Duchess threatened her with revenge at the end but the Queen is very hard and devious. I think the tears weren't real but just part of playing the victim to justify whatever happens to the Duchess afterwards.
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  15. The countries with crooks in charge will end up with the worst results.
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  16. How terrible is that red top guy's lack of judgement as if moving from Sunak to Farage is an improvement.
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  17. They only had to google Rwanda. It's 93..8% Christian, only 2% Muslim
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  18. Interestingly there's one guy who faced the killer and looked ready to take him on but the killer swerved in another direction to avoid him. He was going for those weaker than him it seems.
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  19.  @theflyingstonemason6867  Sorry I didn't want to bring back bad memories, just ensure your comment was understood because in its original form I believed it implied the opposite of what you intended.
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  20. I don't foresee a reconciliation. The trust is lost when every instance of contact becomes material for a book to monetise it.
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  21. He's hardly going to get the military to support him in a coup now. He's malign. He's pardoning the swamp.
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  22. Camilla isn't a blood relative of the children. I'm guessing they might just call her Camilla, though as Charles is a stickler for protocol, I'm not sure of that.
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  23. People seem to think Jeremy Corbyn is not strong, but it takes a lot of strength to withstand the pressure he has had and not to buckle but to stand by his principles. You don't have to sound aggressive to be strong.
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  24. As the interviewer walked through the market he received some fierce looks from the Taliban, probably thinking what they'd like to do to him if their boss wasn't currently on a PR offensive.
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  25. I don't think quantum mechanics understands me either. Perhaps we're not suited.
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  26. My experience of the Pfizer booster vaccine is this: I asked for the needle to be aspirated and it was. I'm not young or a male. I have some long term conditions. The vaccine affected me for about a month. I got palpitations and tiredness to the point where I avoided exercise but I gradually started gentle exercise again (short walk to shops) always experiencing some palpitations. I gradually built up my exercise (time and distance) and after about a month I would say I was back to normal. I was told I'd need a second booster dose but this turned out to be based on a mistaken assumption. I was relieved not to have to have a second dose.
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  27. The government should therefore stop preventing settlements and interfering in negotiations.
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  28. Putin twists everything. Putin was the first to invade Ukraine and seize Crimea. This time around he was the first to place his troops on the Ukraine border, and he encouraged Belarus to invite immigrants and then dump them on the Polish border.
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  29. What did the doctors say?
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  30. Many people lived in single rooms with no cooking facilities and they ate out from food produced by street stalls. Probably only the rich had kitchens and cooked at home. They had slaves to do their cooking.
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  31.  @tahermahmud3053  But her ability to concentrate without being distracted was good.
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  32.    Stupidity is believing Covid is some kind of conspiracy theory or doesn't exist. Being asked to wear a mask is to protect people and communities. How come they can't do such a little thing for the sake of their communities? If people don't, the reality will come home to them eventually because in the USA there are already nearly 7m cases and over 200,000 deaths. The numbers are only going to continue to rise while stupidity rules, and even Trump knows that the victims are more likely to be his supporters since they are more likely not to wear masks.
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  33. He twists this as if it's just about social distancing. Boris won't sack him because Boris is equally guilty of this kind of thing.
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  34. Boris is such a practised liar that he has a fund of weasel words to try and dodge responsibility.
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  35. Someone made a good point (on another video) that if he's looking for forgiveness, he should seek it from his wife and kids.
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  36. He should have said to Johnson, if he was so bothered about the consequences spending £30bn, why did he waste more than that on ineffective non competitive Covid contracts with friends and supporters, that have not yet been published, contrary to the law.
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  37. Merkel's expressive face is great. I love some of the looks she gave Trump in real life.
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  38. That woman in the stripey suit is talking like an extremist, grossly miscategorising marches for a ceasefire in Gaza and a free Gaza.
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  39. You don't have to see the beheading videos to know that beheadings happened. They were widely reported so it's hard to believe that she didn't know.
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  40. 'Sister stay away from the buffet'. Well Prince didn't look as though he ate much himself.
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  41. The technique of these liars is to motormouth anyone who might call them out on their lies.
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  42. It seems to me that some time after Brexit, the BBC were not allowed to refer to 'Brexit' or explain any subsequent problems as being caused by Brexit. The even edited out the word Brexit from journalists' reports. They don't mention it these days even though problems persist.
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  43. Sad for the ex Labour voting lady who's been conned by Boris Johnson and still supports him.
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  44. No car is going to knock down the heir to the throne. Meghan's reaction is based on a normal life experience, but Royals don't usually have to worry about things like that.
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  45. Remember Angela Rayner got into trouble for calling them scum.
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  46. Javid was also obviously being set up as a scapegoat if needed. He was wise to resign.
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  47. Honestly I'd rather die than go to a nursing home.
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  48. They're saying that despite her diagnosis of Amber Heard, that does not provide evidence that Heard wasn't a victim of intimate partner violence, that Curry wasn't hired to look at that and that she's not an expert at IPV. Curry agreed saying essentially that it was a matter outside of the scope of her work and essentially a matter for police investigation (since it was a crime). They tried to imply that she had a vested interest in coming down on Johnny Depp's side with her investigation and diagnosis, that the idea of a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder was suggested to her by Johnny's team from the start and as his team was paying her and she had dined at his house, that she was biased in favour of him, rather than taking a professional independent view, which she denied. This is what a defence attorney is paid to do, to try and undermine the prosecution's case and witnesses.
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  49. @just so ya know You're only leader of the free world when people outside of your country think you are. Otherwise it's just nationalist vain and empty boasting.
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  50. The guy who says 'nothing has changed', has he not noticed the deterioration in the NHS, the Brexit shambles, the Covid shambles, austerity or the high interest rates?
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  51. Saying the Conservative Party is a brand, that shows you the shallow mindset that will lose the next election too.
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  52. When you vote for the Tories, you vote for people who only care about the monetary value of everything they can get their hands on, and at your expense.
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  53. I remember the 7:84 theatre company from years ago (named because 7% of the population owned 84% of the wealth) doing a play called 'The Great Money Trick'. Some of the words were 'Property, o property, that's the thing for you and me. Houses land and lots of cash, separate us from the trash'. (I've forgotten the rest)
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  54. Trump will say. I don't know these people. I never met them.
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  55. Why aren't all these people irritated by Rees Mogg's arrogance, ignorance, condescension and lies?
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  56. I think he's oven ready - just needs an apple in his mouth.
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  57. It's a good job the WW2 generation did not have such defeatist attitudes.
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  58. Try implementing the protocol you signed up to. Boris's oven ready deal.
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  59. ***** It's a weak man that has to control women because he has no self-control.
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  60. Voting Tory and voting for Brexit has done such damage.
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  61. Livingstone does have a good record of achievements as London Mayor. He was more astute than any of the others in recent times.
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  62. Trump accusing CNN of being dishonest? Who's more dishonest than Trump.
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  63. Another reason Boris is angry is that he can't spin the chequers events as work events. They were purely private parties.
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  64. Doesn't Dunce junior realise that drug enhanced records are meaningless.
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  65. Truss was not even a good member of the Conservative government as a Minister (as Bercow implied) as an ex-civil servant or advisor (can't remember which) said she wasn't even interested in the areas that she presided over as a Minister.
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  66. If someone with Covid 19 is struggling to breathe in a care home, and the home doesn't have the right equipment, shouldn't they be taken to hospital?
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  67. It's easy to plant this kind of smear anonymously and then distance yourself from it when it backfires, or even just to seem like the 'good guy'. I can't believe it was done without his knowledge.
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  68.  @An-Alien-On-Earth  What? Are you saying starving Palestinians are greedy? You are well named being truly from another planet.
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  69. There's an old joke - an Englishman and an Irishman are in conversation. The Englishman says ' I was born British, I am British, and I will always remain British'. The Irishman replies 'Jeez, have you no ambition at all?'
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  70. For these ads to be so bad, Trump must have prepared them himself.
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  71. Surely he's going to stop over Christmas at least. His staff will need a break.
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  72. What are T levels? It was a no brainer and Sunak showed he had no brain. Guito Hari is disingenuous or talks a lot of nonsense. Not only did Downing St choose the date for the interview but Sunak originally wasn't going to attend the D Day commemoration event at all.
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  73. It's the Home Office that pays for security, not the Windsors. Perhaps they hoped Charles would pick up the tab himself once the Home Office stopped paying, but Harry has plenty of money of his own, from Diana.
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  74.  @DutchmanDavid  It's the saying I quoted. 'God is good but trade is better'. I'm not sure who said it. I'll have to check. I can't find it on google but my husband told me of it. P.S. Apparently it is a Dutch proverb.
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  75. At 1:06 or 1:07 she appears to roll her eyes at what he said.
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  76. I could watch this all day - so satisfying.
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  77. @TheWolfsan No one is a subhuman, even those who abuse others in those terms, and refer to themselves with animal names.
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  78. Human slogan: 'Save the Whale'. Whale slogan: 'Save the Humans'.
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  79.  @williammohan9784  or perhaps you could change the h and a in your name to r and o
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  80. Judges have to go by the law and the evidence and nothing else. Their own political views don't matter unless they are corrupt.
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  81.  @fredgalaxy7632  Not quite as simple. A provisional licence costs money which he does not have, and to get one requires submission of an identity document which he does not have. It also requires addresses for the last 3 years including an address to send it to. He may not be able to use a computer, who knows? Apply for your first provisional driving licence - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) I hope someone took him into their home until he got himself sorted out. He seems like a nice lad. I wonder what happened to his parents and why he is not with them. Maybe he grew up in a care home.
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  82. A guy who watched the CCTV afterwards said he was crawling at the end and taking ages to cover a small distance.
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  83. Hopefully educated women can pass on their education to their daughters at home, though it won't be the same as educational establishments that keep up with developments in science etc. Hopefully some women have access to the internet and can invite others for study sessions but it seems Afghanistan is so poor that internet access may be lacking.
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  84.  @stephenmurray2851  You missed my point. The chance of the killer with a Rwandan heritage being a Muslim is negligible and in fact it's been confirmed that he is not a Muslim but a Christian. People were taken in by conspiracy theories.
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  85. Therese Coffey looks moved. If only she had been moved by the plight of the poor her former department harassed and would release the report on how many deaths were the result of its rule changes.
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  86. What charisma?
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  87. As for having to be on the voting register to donate to British political parties , doesn't the Russians buying property in Britain qualify them to be on the voting register? Meanwhile the Tory election law will ensure that many British people who turn up to vote will not be able to.
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  88. People bringing in Covid, passing it on and taking it home to their communities
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  89. Aren't you making the assumption that they are guilty? What if they are 4 guys randomly picked up and beaten into stating they are guilty?
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  90.  @brainbarz  No. Offering a free education service is just my charitable endeavour on the side.
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  91. But I guess women will only be able to study religion.
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  92. She went to the police for help and he beat her up for no reason.
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  93. If he's that bad at logic and maths, how is he any good at business or being a President? Oh, I forgot, he isn't.
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  94. I had two black cats that were brothers. They were magnificent; chatty, affectionate, intelligent, fun - very much like these two.
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  95. He looks like he has a good sense of humour. Must be British then.
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  96. As a Shakespeare character said. 'Patriotism (or the claim to it) is the last refuge of the scoundrel'.
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  97. He always finds a bandwagon to jump on
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  98. He had lots of practise controlling the hooligans in the House of Commons.
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  99. And the working class is dead under Boris.
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  100. Why is Market Black?
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  101. ' Well at this distance'.... Cromwell knows that Henry has set an easy distance for himself so that he can look good.
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  102. He always says the expected thing. He never does it though.
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  103. At 3:00, Gillian Keegan Minister called the pay review body process 'independent' and 'taking the politics out' but in fact it's not independent because its terms and conditions only allow it to bring recommendations within the budget already set by the government.
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  104. At one time Islam had a lot of scholars who were leading in the fields of astronomy, mathematics and creative arts like architecture and design. Somehow I don't think the Taliban would approve of that sort of thing. Education, except for religious education, is not their thing.
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  105. Chococo Chen. But all over the world Shakespeare plays are converted into different settings and different cultures and times. That's the nature of Shakespeare and drama. It's universal in scope and nature. That's why it's still relevant today when other plays from his time are forgotten.
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  106. Wild eyes! He doesn't like being told no.
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  107. November the 3rd, expel the turd.
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  108. This doesn't explain things at all. British fishermen largely caught fish that Europeans wanted to buy, but there was little demand in Britain for, and a hard Brexit was always going to result in bureaucratic and expensive barriers to selling them to the EU, which would mean they could never get to the EU in a fresh enough condition. The fish the British like to eat is mostly caught by Norwegians around Norway, but Britain didn't manage to get a deal with Norway after Brexit. Nigel should do a bit of research on the fishing industry. In fact he should have done it before Brexit.
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  109.  @francofan100  It will forever have this footage to look at though.
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  110. You lose interest in sports you don't win.
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  111. It can't be 'spewing living magma' because once magma is above the ground it's called lava.
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  112.  @immortaltyrant2474  You seem to think I'm Irish. I am British with Irish relatives. Actually I remember visiting Ireland as long ago as the 1950s and you would be hard pushed to find any of the things you listed. It was very rural with no advanced agricultural machinery, factories or technology. That might apply to the North but not the rest. What there was of it when Ireland was 'one entity' under Britain certainly wasn't available to the native Irish (and catholic) population. From the beginning when Ireland was invaded by England and the Norman Knight 'Strongbow' would break the limbs of the defeated Irish and throw them in the sea, the quality of British rule was set.In Elizabethan times there were massacres of civilians in Connaught which an ancestor of Lord Lucan boasted about and a scorched earth policy in Munster to starve the population. Then we come on to the massacres of Cromwell, the plantation of protestant English and Scots into Ireland, the removal from the land of the native Irish except for Connaught where they were allowed to go because it was poor land. The Irish language was banned, the Irish were not allowed to own property (houses, land or a horse worth more than £5). The Catholic religion was banned. Priests were hunted and killed. Irish traditional clothing was banned. Schools and education for the native Irish were banned and they were not allowed to take any professional jobs. They were not allowed to have a vote. Most of the native Irish population were tenants, living on subsistence farming. Most of the landlords were British and many were absentee landlords. When the potato blight struck, causing famine, many landlords evicted these tenants to starve to death or emigrate, if they could afford the fares. The lack of a vote and the ban from owning property continued up until the 19th and 20th centuries respectively. I think the damage done far outweighed any benefits. Except in the North, where there was a large Protestant settler population from Scotland and England, I doubt anyone would have noticed any benefits but they would certainly have been adversely affected by being a slave nation subjected to British rule.
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  113. They thought the fans would allow them to detach their teams from the local fans and the rest of the teams in their leagues and to turn a sport into 'sport entertainment'. No promotion and no relegation, just a gravy train for the owners that would roll on and on. The Glazers haven't even got round to painting the Man U stadium.
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  114.  @yoshalower3209  Don't be stupid.
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  115. Houchen is focussed on the wrong things too, the enrichment of 2 business colleagues at public expense for no discernible public benefit.
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  116. I always knew from a young age not to buy leasehold because it meant you did not own your home, really and you didn't have complete freedom and control. I never knew why people would buy leasehold unless they were desperate and could not afford anything else. The first thing prospective buyers should ask is 'Is it freehold?'.
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  117. He comes across as a creep. That defensive walk, the jutting chin, the forced smile. Seeing her and him why would you leave her with him. Take her to the police station for her own safety and ask her about it away from him.
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  118. But there wasn't much cheering for his self-serving, self-pitying, rambling diatribe. He didn't talk much about what he would do for others if elected. It's amazing that his followers still can't see through him. He suggests all courts and the justice service are biased if they rule against him, when they are just going by the evidence.
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  119.  @immortaltyrant2474  I fear you don't know the history. For the native Irish population it was 9 centuries of misery - the most tragic long term history - look it up. If you want to explain I will.
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  120. Even Baldrick wouldn't want this Turnip. I knew someone who made his excuses from a lunch because he was expected to sit next to Raab. Couldn't stand him.
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  121.  @peterreeves6825  His hedge fund moved to Ireland but recently I read that it's closed down because most of the investors abandoned it. Lol.
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  122. The DUP supported leaving the EU when NI as a whole voted Remain.
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  123. Channel 4, I don't think Putin (even Putin) would 'commemorate' the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. That would be to show respect for it. He's more likely remembering it or commemorating the Soviet soldiers who fought against it.
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  124. It's basically going to be do you want the European model of society or the American one, - bearing in mind that workers in America are far more pressurised with fewer rights and haven't had a pay rise in real terms since the 1970s and the gap between richer and poorer there gets ever larger. Education is extremely expensive and so is healthcare. The Tories in Britain have been pushing us more towards this model with their privatisations etc. Jeremy Corbyn wants to reverse some of that and most of the press, run by rich Tory supporting men, have been bashing him non stop for fear he'll succeed. Notice that when IDS speaks Ken Clark listens and looks interested, whereas when Ken Clark speaks IDS looks like someone pressed his 'standby' mode button. Nothing fazes Ken Clark. IDS has faced some 'fazers on stun' it seems.
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  125.    You're an expert and a scientist I suppose? Good luck with your beliefs. These are the figures fed into the daily count by all countries including the US of A. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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  126. Mande Loo You were meant to understand that it was fake. This is a powerful woman one minute, pretending to be the victim the next. This is a public demonstration, so that the downfall of the Gloucesters that follows from this scene is understood and accepted by the Court.
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  127. She's often the only adult in the room.
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  128. In the thumbnail how small Zelensky looks next to those American giants. Clearly size isn't everything.
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  129. The video states it can't be determined whether the skeletons with syphilis were friars or wealthy people who paid to be buried there or both. Possibly the friars looked after them before their death.
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  130. I'm always nervous about eggs being counted before they have hatched. Disappointment has so often been my reaction to past elections.
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  131. Politicians, and especially the Tories, always like it if they can dodge responsibility for anything or shovel the blame off onto someone. Money for nothing is their theme tune.
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  132. Once Boris has appointed her she can do anything she likes however corrupt, undemocratic or incompetent. He never sacks anyone for that.
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  133. +sylv sylv You need to compare it to what went before. A small very rich elite governed a large class of people who mostly lived in abject poverty and slavery. They were sent into wars to die and saw how much better people in other countries lived so it made a political movement that espoused more equality sound attractive to them. The revolution threw up "unexpected" problems as it basically created a different elite which was murderous by the time that Stalin was leader. Karl Marx did not foresee that communism would take off in poor rural countries like Russia. He always thought that developed industrial countries with more democratic institutions would be the first to espouse communism.
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  134. I hope they are guilty. If they are innocent Russia is scapegoating 4 guys and threatening them with more of the same treatment if they don't plead guilty. Decisions in Russian courts on high profile political cases like this are often predetermined.
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  135.  @lewisitor  Can you hook up some human rights too?
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  136. remain. She still believes he should do bad things to other government workers, just not her.
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  137. Most of it is coming from Trump.
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  138.  @immortaltyrant2474  No. There were clans. Just like there were clans in Scotland but they all lived by the same Brehon laws and all shared the same language and culture.
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  139. He's been 'talking to the manufacturers'. He's been doing some homework. He's been consulting experts. He's been discussing a plan. He's been doing something useful. What a load of lazy useless politicians we have in government now, in comparison.
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  140. @just so ya knowGood luck with that.
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  141.  @nafisahmed-nf4vp  but they also have brains, and she used them. What she did helped more than her trying a physical attack.
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  142. The £2000 Labour tax and saying these were Treasury figures. Have you not been listening to this video?​@Jackssw
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  143. The level of his tweets reflects the the level of his fear.
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  144. Finally getting out of the corner they backed themselves into?
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  145. Yes, the record is broken.
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  146. Kwasi Kwarteng with a rictus smile. Steve Baker looking quite pleased that they know who he is - enough to boo him anyway, or maybe he's just utterly shameless.
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  147. Bribery at large. Lots of promises, until after Brexit and after an election.
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  148. Flu probably reduced because of people following Covid guidelines. They would also protect against flu (wearing masks, social distancing and handwashing). Isis was largely defeated militarily. They don't have much of a geographical base now. There are just individual terrorist incidents from time to time.
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  149. Starmer pissed off so many of his own party because of his stance on Gaza that many stood and won as independents.
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  150. Fred C. It depends on whether the race of the person is crucial to the story. Shakespeare makes points about power in his plays that are relevant beyond his time. His plays are not pure history. They're not totally accurate as history. He changed things for dramatic effect and to please the regime of his time. Modern dramatists do the same with Shakespeare's plays to make them more relevant to a modern audience.
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  151. I hate to say it, but Tory supporters need to feel the pain before they come to their senses and change their allegiance.
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  152. They haven't said how serious a disease it is, how long it lasts and whether people fully recover.
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  153. Why do people pick on appearances rather than listening to what people are saying? It's not a beauty contest.
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  154. What a nutter he is. He definitely needs treatment.
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  155. Some additional info.... Versailles was built without any bathrooms, except one for Louis XIV. There were no toilets either. People had to call for servants with chamber pots or find a quiet corner of the building. Dogs were allowed to run around in the building and pooed and peed everywhere. The importance of hygiene wasn't understood. Doctors didn't wash their hands between patients or sterilise their instruments. Most of Louis's heirs died from diseases that would be unlikely to kill people now, but when blood letting was a common treatment, doctors often introduced sepsis into their patients this way. Heirs who appeared to be recovering would often relapse and die after such treatment. The one heir who did succeed him (his great grandson) was saved from this fate by his governess who locked him in his room and would not let the doctors near him. She cared for him herself and he recovered. Louis did make one concession to cleanliness - Versailles was vacated by the court once a year for it to be cleaned. Louis and his brother almost certainly had diabetes. His brother died from a stroke after an argument with Louis. His brother was described as fat and constantly craving sweet foods. Louis himself lived longer but died from gangrene of the leg. His doctor was initially very complacent about the condition, not regarding it as a serious problem.
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  156.  @darong6852  Israel continues to evict Palestinians from their land in East Jerusalem. That's what sparked the conflict as well as the attack on the Mosque in Israel. Netanyahu is trying to fend off criminal charges against him for corruption for bribery, fraud and breach of trust. I believe this is his way of trying to distract from that, though he always has been a warmonger with aggressive intentions towards Palestine. The Israelis signed up to the Oslo Agreement (1993) designed to bring peace by providing for a two state solution (which includes a Palestinian State) yet Israel continues to encroach on land intended by the agreement to be part of the Palestinian State, evicting Palestinians and replacing them with Jewish settlers. Israel recently declared itself a Jewish State which removes the rights of non Jews in Israel.
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  157.  @immortaltyrant2474  No. In summary, they would have developed like any other European country over time if they weren't held back by Britain for centuries. Britain only ever used Ireland to extract wealth which is why cattle were exported during the famine rather than being used to feed the population and rents were exported to absentee landlords. Imagine when the Normans conquered Britain, if they had banned the English language and French became the only language to speak. Imagine if they had ruled Britain from France and kept anyone of Anglo Saxon descent from owning land and houses in their own land for centuries right up to the 20th century, and banned their culture in favour of French culture and didn't allow them to be educated or practise their religion. Would you say they'd been benefitting the English because they built castles and maintained order? Is that what your main views about it would be as one of the people treated as second class citizens in their own land for centuries? Do try to have some imagination. In the North discrimination was practised even in the 1970s which is what the civil rights marches were about, and Ian Paisley (Protstant 'clergyman' and all round bigot) planned and executed violent attacks on the marchers which is what re-animated the IRA again as people felt that there was no democratic avenue to equality or to end to injustices, and protection from violent attacks was needed. (People were evicted from their houses for being Catholics and living in mixed areas, and segregation became even stronger). I am not defending violence as a means of dealing with violence. It just makes things worse, but Britain left that unjust state of affairs to fester for far too long.
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  158. Boris calls Starmer 'Captain Hindsight' but Boris doesn't even have hindsight himself. He's deluded.
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  159. His authority is 'toadal' because he's a toad. Never mind the constitution.
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  160.  @vickiehadd4324  The fact that we have all been born is evidence of biological sex.
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  161. Boris must admire the man who is so much like himself. I suppose he might have wished it was him in the cupboard, when he saw the photos.
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  162.  @ciararespect4296  So Kent is much better off now?
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  163. Thank the NHS staff by giving them decent pay rises in future, and put an end to privatising services. You are lucky you still have a national service in this crisis.
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  164. Why should the jury know who he is? That means they won't come to the case with any prior prejudices which is a good thing for justice sake, as they will judge on the evidence presented to them.
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  165. Any country that does this should be funding its own welfare state and not relying on foreign charities.
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  166. So colour is the most important thing to you?. Never mind that she's a great actress and gives a good performance. Shakespeare used men to play women's parts. Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles played a black character in Shakespeare's play Othello. Drama is not the same as documentary or history. Have you actually watched these plays?
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  167. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
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  168.  @mogznwaz  But they were carrying white flags. One had red hair. Even the IDF admits they were shot against the rules of engagement.
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  169. If what he says is true, that before entering Kabul, the Taliban were seeking an agreement whereby they were prepared to share government and have an inclusive one (I presume he meant with members of the existing regime) but the Afghan army abandoned Kabul, it goes to show how terrified the Afghan army was of the Taliban or how they did not trust them. His English accent is slight (pretty standard) but there are faint echoes of a New Zealand accent.
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  170. He's overruled his senior ethics adviser as he doesn't have any ethics. It's weird the conclusion that she didn't understand the impact of her behaviour as I read somewhere that she had someone working through the night and she shouted at that person when she came in the next day and that person collapsed and was taken to hospital. Perhaps she just didn't connect the 2 things.
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  171. @Educat ional There is nothing in life that is risk free. It's just a question of understanding risk levels to make sensible judgements.
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  172.  @stephenmurray2851  My comments were referring to this particular man who is of Rwandan ethnicity as he was the one the misinformation was about. He has since been said to be of Rwandan Christian origin. Are you a bit dim?
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  173. I don't think it was treason. Cromwell here is made to sound as if he tried to avoid more bloodshed than there was. Whether it was down to him I don't know. Henry just needed to save face by having a scapegoat to blame for the failed marriage with Anne of Cleves. Henry detested being humiliated or feeling that he was. Also I suspect, as he had his eye on marriage with Catherine Howard, that Cromwell's enemy, Catherine's Uncle Norfolk, was working on Henry behind the scenes to procure his downfall, Gardiner too, I imagine.
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  174. She's a good actress and plays the part well. That's all that matters.
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  175.  @noak9916  Of course there are. This is just a deflection - the 'no alternative' excuse.
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  176. If I'm white but identify as black I can still go, it seems. No one can challenge self-identification.
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  177.  @MikeAinsworth  But he's not currently attempting to be President. Trump is.
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  178. He thinks the country is broken beyond compare. He was one of those advising the Tories, that led to this mess, and he's only just resigning now? This guy's judgement cannot be relied on.
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  179. People judge too much by the personality, whether they like or trust the candidates. The true test is to look at someone's voting record.
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  180. If only our own government abided by the rule of law.
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  181. Is English your second language?
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  182. You got your wish. She was made a Dame a month ago.
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  183. These inept Ministers never resign.
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  184. He doesn't have a formal role now. He's no longer a working Royal and doesn't get paid by UK taxpayers. This is just inter-family grief now, except that the media takes a prurient interest.
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  185.  @Io-Io-Io  Only very close friends can talk to each other like that and get away with it - English humour among close friends. The others didn't react with horror.
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  186. Her underlings certainly knew as has come out in the evidence and Angela Van Den Bogerd said as soon as she knew anything, she made sure that Paula Vennells also knew.
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  187.  @namei8967  I don't think you've looked at the facts of this case to come out with such generalised twaddle.
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  188.  @zumatoobs  These things are also high in European countries even if they are run by Conservatives (the political equivalent of Republicans)
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  189. Usually people are allowed to take off their seatbelts when the plane is in flight.
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  190. I suspect that many poor women in the countryside don't have a choice about whether to give birth. They can suffer abuse from their husbands and lack access to contraception.
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  191. Ian praising The Guardian for something. Lawks a mercy!
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  192. There are monsters in the police as we sometimes see.
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  193. Katherine Koelker. I don't think this particular conflict between the women results in the battle for the throne, because this incident is between Lancastrians, whereas the battle for the throne was between Yorkists and Lancastrians. The Duchess of Gloucester gets accused of witchcraft and is imprisoned or exiled for that. Gloucester is imprisoned and murdered. Sorry for the spoilers.
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  194.  @lindawinegar1311  It's Markle. Merkel is the German Chancellor.
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  195. 50:00 The committee want the unions to tell them how to make union suppressing legislation work. What a cheek!.
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  196. How do you know that? They have not been testing all the people who need the test so it could be spreading more than they know about.
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  197. Was he also the one who decided to give staff 60 second interviews to pitch to save their jobs?
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  198. He did not want to acknowledge a quotation of his that could be used against himself
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  199. Sickening smugness.
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  200. I sometimes think the Tories are a party of aliens.
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  201. Regarding what Sunak said, the Pay Review Bodies are not that independent, as their terms of reference only allow them to recommend pay rises within the budgets already set by the government.
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  202. How many Anglo-Saxons have asked him for help? I'm sure he would help anyone with a human rights problem who asked him.
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  203. Harry considers it unlikely that he will be invited to Charles's coronation, so he makes a demand he knows won't be accepted in order for it to seem like he had a reason not to attend and it was his choice. It's all game playing.
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  204. *tabloid
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  205.  @danielcuddihy4273  Chaos never produces a good outcome either.
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  206.  @mogdaboi  If Trump is the leader of the free world, the free world is in deep shit. We need someone with a brain. Out of those two, Merkel definitely wins on response to Covid 19. I'm perhaps not surprised that you don't know enough about her to see her merits since you can't even spell her name.
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  207. I'm not sure Musk does think he made a mistake. He has made it clear he doesn't think there should be any government agencies or rules and regulations in general.
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  208. Probably to do with men of that heritage having come over to the UK and traditionally worked in these industries but I like to think also it's to do with Celtic eloquence coming to the fore and the spirit of standing up for yourself and others.
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  209. Coincidentally, I've just eaten two eggs, but I don't live in the USA.
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  210. He has to come out with that 'nobody's ever done' line. He's always saying he's the best at everything. Who was the guy pushed over and did he survive?
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  211. Boris can't sack someone who has been doing the same as he himself. He can only admire him.
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  212. They are obliged to offer it to everyone but if younger people think they don't want it and aren't so much at risk that's up to them. They can still pass it around and create mutations though.
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  213. You also need to bring back building inspectors in councils to ensure the building quality of new houses, instead of allowing developers to appoint their own inspectors, as the Tories did. People have become nervous of buying new houses because of the many faults that are found and the difficulty in getting them put right. Local councils should also have the right to restrict the number of seconds homes and air B&B in their areas. Rent controls should be introduced and no fault evictions stopped.
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  214. The EU did try to explain what Brexit meant but the Breixteers over here don't seem to have listened. It's not the EU's fault that our government have done very little in the way of preparation for Brexit over the years since the Referendum, and instead banked on being able to cherry pick the benefits of the EU without being a member of it or paying for it. The EU said no to that from the start, but the Tories thought they could beat them down in the end. Arrogance and ignorance is what got us here.
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  215. That old cliché. Well it saves having to think too much.
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  216.  @gustavobarajas6155  Science is of course the answer. What other answer do you have? If it wasn't for science our populations would have been as low as in the days before we had science.
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  217.  @genghisthegreat2034 As Yogi Berra once said. 'You should always go to people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
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  218. She was/is a Trump supporter.
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  219.  @victorspencer9159  *clowns, *daisies. Starmer is a lawyer and very competent. Those that can spell will be voting for him.
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  220. Jeff Bezos could share a bit more of his wealth with those who make it for him, couldn't he?
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  221. I'm not sure about this 'ego' explanation. As science developed someone would have invented the bomb even if Oppenheimer had not done it.
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  222.  @tenniskinsella7768  Keep up. The Labour Party's not been in power for 13 years.
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  223. I saw this 50 years ago when it was on show at the British Museum. I travelled to London just to see the exhibition and queued for 4 hours to get in. There were so many people wanting to see the exhibition, which included lots of other artefacts and jewellery from the tomb, that people were shuffled through making sure no one lingered too long and caused a bottleneck. It was the most impressive exhibition I've ever seen with lots of beautiful and interesting items in addition to the mask. It had low lighting to simulate the impression it would have created when Howard Carter first saw it with the gold glowing in the darkened rooms. Magical.
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  224. It's the law of supply and demand. Not enough supply? Not enough affordable or social housing or housing for first time buyers built? Then the price of housing and accommodation goes up. The government for a long time has actually prevented local councils from building social housing. Developers have often been 'landbanking' - sitting on land they own just waiting for its value to go up, rather than building on it. The government also relies on people being too despondent to vote, or not registering to vote.
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  225. And he isn't wearing a mask like the man sitting next to him.
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  226.  @lisaschuster9187  Yeah yeah, I got the sarcasm. I'm just more interested in the history and the facts than the sarcasm.
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  227.    Do you have spaghetti for brains? Don't be so silly. Where do you get this nonsense from?
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  228.  @mattheweades  The BBC say they 'accidentally' showed last year's footage but in fact they were covering up the fact that Johnson made a mess of things this year at the Cenotaph - going too early then having to step back then putting the wreath upside down.
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  229. Some useful action perhaps. Rees-Smugg listens but does not hear. All he does is repeat his Tory mantra.
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  230.  @gottafly5129  *paying
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  231. And the 'no money left debt' was because Brown had to prop up British banks as a result of their failure because of the worldwide banking crisis, and he persuaded other countries to do the same. In effect he saved the world capitalist system from a crisis which would otherwise have led to its collapse and the loss of savings of millions of people and the non function and collapse of many economies.
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  232. Shakespeare was never about historical accuracy but about stories and drama which have universal themes, so his plays are often produced in modern times in different eras and settings with different types of cast. Those who criticise this casting are not real fans of Shakespeare I think and don't watch his plays much.
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  233. Remember the headline 'Kent overwhelmingly votes to leave the EU'? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36616172 Being so near to the EU and benefitting economically from that I can't understand why they did that. Now they'll be the lorry park of England instead of the garden of England.
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  234.  @Litl_Skitl  Possibly so. The 'raised eyebrows' of history, sadly, are not often recorded for posterity.
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  235. It's interesting how the government now realises how much they rely on the very public services they normally revile or seek to privatise or starve of funds. Maybe this will be a wake up call for them.
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  236. He's not insane. He's just a criminal and a narcissist.
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  237. A long time go, Aldous Huxley wrote a dystopian science fiction book called 'Brave New World' where the population is on a drug called 'soma' that keeps them happy. When you said they want people on drugs it reminded me of that.
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  238. Only by America is it called Soccer. The rest of the world calls it football.
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  239.  @daviddavidson2357  Yet it was an 'import' who tackled the man and got the knife off him.
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  240. If it's the kind of thing where historical accuracy is important, but Shakespeare always played around with history. It's drama not historical fact. Shakespeare plays have been set in a variety of times with a variety of actors. There have been all male players and all female players and a Macbeth set in Nazi times etc etc
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  241. P.S. Julius Caesar has been played by people who were not Italian, Shylock has been played by people who are not Jewish and Othello has been played by people who are not black.
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  242. In his own humble opinion.
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  243. Not 'still'. Newly.
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  244. The narrator's accent and intonation is lovely to listen to and the emphasis appropriate to the subject matter. Is the narrator a professional actor I wonder.
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  245. Because he's the official opposition and that's the way our democratic system works. There has to be someone able to challenge the government otherwise they would do what they please without regard for the voting public, and hide it behind a bodyguard of lies. Besides, by this time after the election, voters will have had time to see what lies they were told before the election, if there's someone there to point them out and to put forward alternative policies.
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  246. The woman called Gia looks like Angelina Jolie. What a waste! What a waste of all of them really.
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  247. He was about 80 yards from home when he died and that's probably where he was heading when he ran. Maybe he thought his Mom would hear him.
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  248. There are many US pronunciations of words that have now become commonplace in the UK even on the BBC. HarASSment for instance instead of HARassment. Why did we change that?
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  249.  @cliveconnor6543  Get your facts right. The referendum in Crimea came after the invasion by Russia. So would it be o.k for Ukraine to invade part of Russia and then hold a refendum and keep the land if the referendum went their way. Would Putin accept that?
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  250.  @doody244  Being a life peerage stops it from being inherited by a bad apple at any time in the future.
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  251. When Farage was a MEP in the EU, he only once ever turned up to attend the Fishing Committee, and his continuing ignorance about the fishing industry comes across in this video.
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  252.  @jerseyraider9618  Being led by a narcissist is a recipe for disaster.
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  253. When I was governor of Indiana I once put out a fire in a building.
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  254. The Tories are not about helping anyone unless it's helping themselves. The 'helping' terminology often hides financial pressures they impose. It might be good for the economy for parents to go back to work when a child is 9 months old, but is it good for the child and society at large? What are the impacts on the child? All the Tories think about is money-making.
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  255.  @paulungureanu937  A decent man with respect for the constitution would accept defeat in a democracy when he lost the election. Trump has no decency. That's one of his problems.
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  256. I am British by birth but I have stayed. I can't abandon the place because I love family, friends, London, Britain and the UK, the culture, nature, the temperate climate, the kindness and humour of the people.. Can't detach from those roots without missing them forever.
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  257. Yes, because he says America first but puts Russia first.
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  258. Should've entered strictly come dancing next.
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  259. Not very interesting. What about Stephen Hawking, Muhammed Ali, and Bob Dylan?
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  260. The first European civilisation was the Greek civilisation. The Greeks had great philosophers and invented democracy. The Romans were very influenced by the Greeks in many ways.
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  261. Boris was a bit of fun but what did he do for people compared to the other mayors? He was a bit useless. Livingstone introduced the Oyster card and congestion charging and tackled Margaret Thatcher over rising unemployment. Sadiq Khan has introduced 2 for one bus journeys and capped some TfL fares with plans to do more. People should vote for policies and actions rather than personalities.
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  262. What has Hugh Grant got to do with Remington Steele? That was Pierce Brosnan.
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  263. It could be from eating cheap but poor stodgy food. Another thing is that certain medications put weight on people.
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  264. Dominic Cummings has carte blanche to do what he likes now. We know that Boris can't manage without him.
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  265. Yep. Notice that he never denies that he's lying.
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  266. The Chancellor puts his foot in it, and then puts his foot in it again.
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  267. I think Nadine Dorries likes posh boys.
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  268. But when they are a Minister and when they were once a Minister enforcing tax rules at the same time that the tax office was investigating him, then there's a public interest in Zahawi's affairs. Cleverly is always wheeled out to defend the indefensible.
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  269. Trump likes people like him, but he doesn't seem to realise that people like him will screw people like him.
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  270. Noel is more articulate.
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  271. You got Brexit. You just don't like Brexit because it's not the Unicorn you wanted.
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  272. I see 'reach out' is now the euphemism for 'harrass'. The guy saying 'the punishment for treason is death', is he still sticking to that viewpoint now that all the evidence points to the 'treason' being on the Trump side?
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  273.  @immortaltyrant2474  But they were all Irish Kings.
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  274. Vamanos Ninja The tabloids were involved in a phone hacking scandal. Basically they were illegally hacking into people's private phone messages (mostly celebrities) in order to dig up things to write about them in the tabloids. The worst of it was when they hacked into the phone of a young woman who was a murder victim, and because of their activities on her phone it led her parents falsely to think she was still alive.
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  275. No. Quite Brummie!
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  276. Roman Darius. So you should understand how bad racism is if you suffer from it don't you? Also you should understand it because South Africa dealt it out for many years in the worst kind of ways.
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  277. Heatherrfc You can probably have it if you ask her. It's a false one.
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  278. No it sounds Irish to me. She had Irish parents and so did I.
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  279. She says 'Am I bothered (which she pronounces bovvered)?' but she says it in what she thinks is Shakespearian style 'Am'st I bovvered?'
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  280. Braverman is not only a lawyer, she was once the government Attorney General. Disgraceful.
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  281. That form of syphilis is transmitted sexually.
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  282. That was due to the contracting system begun by Margaret Thatche,r from the purchaser provider split and outsourcing of ancillary services to massive contracts that require a lot of management and finance input as well as expensive accountancy firms to advise purchasers. Also the Tories started bringing in managers from outside industry, at great expense, assuming they could manage the NHS better than those with knowledge. The NHS was then burdened with expensive long lasting PFI schemes and the 2012 Health and Social Care Act spent £3bn on an expensive re-organisation, created lots more quangos, and added pressures to put more health services out to tender to private companies. These companies were then allowed to use the NHS logo which the Tories regard merely as a brand. All these moves were to make it easier for the private sector to take over more and more of the NHS with the aim of eventually privatising it. Even holding down wages was part of the plan. The service is being kept free at the point of use while this goes on, in the hope that people won't notice what is happening until it's too late, and with an 80 seat majority now Boris can pretty much do what he likes and the opposition can't stop him.
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  283.  @petervanzyl518  No, doesn't.
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  284. Of course she knew. The Post Office hired Second Sight to investigate and when Second Sight reported Horizon flaws to the P.O. they were sacked by the P.O.. Angela Van Den Bogerd who has already testified said as soon as she knew anything she would immediately make sure that Pauls Vennells knew too.
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  285.  @britishmgtow7251  Why don't you ask him? I bet he's not the sort to boast about any contributions to charity. He's certainly giving a lot of his time.
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  286. Maybe their heart is not in it. In any case, Putin doesn't have to kill his opponents, just warn them that he can and disable them. He did manage to have a previous opponent shot though.
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  287. He's probably on some anti-depressants to deal with Boris every day.
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  288. No the Lancastrians won. Henry Tudor was a Lancastrian. He chose to marry Elizabeth of York to end the battles for the throne, but over the years both he and his son Henry VIII had all of the surviving male Yorkists with a genetic claim to the throne killed and some of the female Yorkists were also executed such as George Duke of Clarence's daughter Margaret Pole even though she was an old woman at the time.
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  289.  @balls4992  I remember when lying to Parliament was a resignation affair. Ministers were expected to resign if caught lying and they did. Now there's no shame.
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  290. Life before the welfare state.
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  291. Yes the lessons are that it goes right when the public sector is involved and wrong when they are ignored.
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  292.  @jdlc903  Relatively speaking it is. I think it ranks about 6th or 7th richest in the world. That might change post Brexit. The wealth is not as evenly distributed as in some Scandinavian countries, for instance. That's a political choice, stemming from the Tory belief in light regulation of capitalism. Some believe in no regulation (laissez faire economics). Such a system favours the wealthy at the expense of the working class, since there's always downwards pressure on jobs and pay.
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  293. Chris Cuomo always looks like he's traumatized or about to cry.
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  294.  @4nciite  They were told to stay put and they'd be rescued. That was standard advice from the firefighters. Some didn't know what was happening immediately. The fire alarms didn't work or were very faint. The fire spread very rapidly because of the cladding. There was only one staircase out I believe. Some tenants were disabled.
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  295. They aren't that accurate. Henry VI was not that handsome. Richard III's hair is wrong (too modern, not long enough). Edward IV looks too short.
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  296. Roman Darius. So you think blacks will behave exactly like racist whites, if they have the chance? I wonder why.
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  297. I was just thinking Thomas Sankara should at least get an honourable mention.
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  298. Fantastic in the traditional sense of not being connected to reality, a fantasist. In what other sense is he 'fantastic' other than at being entertaining. There's no substance to him other than a desire to do what is in the interests of Donald Trump.
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  299.  @juliet7703  Since I wrote that comment, there's been publicity to the effect that anyone without an address (i.e. the homeless) can use their local job centre address to claim benefits. Not many people knew that and it wasn't being publicised. I hope he knows that now, though he may still have to find a way of getting ID, and I hope he's doing better. I wish they would update people on this video.
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  300. She's so polite while still being very authoritative, knowledgeable, and competent.
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  301. Idiots for Trump.
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  302. The Tories are not interested in much other than preserving their own wealth.
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  303. It would be a hot war not a cold one if he used nuclear weapons.
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  304. There are hundreds of complaining comments here. Are you too lazy to read them?
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  305. I guess they'll say Winston Churchill but I hope they don't miss out Clement Attlee.
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  306. This is the man that Mick Lynch accused of lying (to his face) 16 times during an interview on the rail strike,
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  307. Who is bullying who, since the majority in Ireland are in favour of the protocol which gives them trade advantages over Brexit Britain and the EU? The USA is also a guarantor of The Good Friday Agreement so doesn't want to see that broken.
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  308. People who are publicly subsidised include MPs with their subsidised bars, food and housing. Are they going to give that up because the country is going through a cost of living crisis and the public finances are under pressure?
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  309. Paranoia and fear is the American way of life.
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  310. Boris looks like the Incredible Hulk, without being incredible.
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  311. Bordering on corruption.
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  312. 6 weeks. Time for a lot of scandals to emerge.
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  313. Employers raised senior managers pay to separate their interests from the rest of the workers and made their job descriptions include cost cutting and paid bonuses based on cost cutting. Fear of losing jobs was the sword hanging over everyone's heads.
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  314. The private sector still takes a profit from work done for the NHS.
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  315. She 'didn't fit the criteria to stack shelves'? Who on earth are they aiming for, graduates - a PhD in shelf stacking perhaps- a research fellow in shelf stacking perhaps?
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  316. At least get the name right! It's to be named Sir David Attenborough after the British naturalist - NOT after his brother Sir Richard Attenborough actor and film producer who died a few years ago.
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  317. Any adoption process should involve child and potential adopter getting to know each other well first to understand whether it's going to work.
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  318. That says he's a democrat, he abides by what his party supports overall in the Manifesto. His policies are costed with the sources of the funding identified - unlike the manifesto of the Conservatives and I don't think he "oozes uncertainty". He's not been used to being a leader for long but he's certain of his principles and what he believes in and that comes across clearly in his speeches which are delivered with enthusiasm. He's not had to do U turns on his manifesto, unlike the Conservatives.
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  319. The government is no longer telling us how many people are infected because they are only testing people who are hospitalised, not people coping with the illness at home.
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  320. 'When I took over Syria'. Lol. He thinks he's Assad.
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  321.  @enemywithin1295  That's the fault of the DWP whose systems for detecting fraud are useless.
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  322. Have you been asleep since 1945?
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  323. The Tories are so patriotic aren't they? Foreign run railways, and foreign owned utilities, foreign made passports and Ministerial cars. The Bufton Tuftons of this world will be spitting out their dummies but still voting Tory nevertheless.
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  324. Brexit means Brexit. Wasn't that what they all said.
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  325. The Labour plan, on the other hand won't be paid for by taxpayers in the form of later tax rises or public service cuts, it will be paid for by windfall taxes on the wholesale energy companies who are raking in the excess profits at the moment.
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  326. Yes, he's very good at playing the role of 'man of the people'. Award winning performance I'd say.
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  327. Yep but there will be barriers after Brexit without arrangements in place.
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  328. You're probably pretty well a nazi already then. Didn't you know? This is not site for comments from Shakespeare lovers, but for petty minded racists - judging by the comments anyway. Most wouldn't know Shakespeare if he bit them on the backside.
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  329.  @zhouly  Or like Doctor Evil.
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  330. They hold no good cards and will be squeezed between the EU and the USA. They are bluffing over a poor hand.
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  331. The Russians are the only ones that produced Novichok. The Russians became defensive and distinctly unhelpful - not the behaviour of an innocent party and there are now particular Russian suspects identified by CCTV about whom the UK is currently discussing the best way to proceed. They may ask for extradition of these individuals from Russia but Russia has committed similar crimes on UK territory before (Litvinienko murder for instance) and they refused extradition of the identified suspects then.
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  332. If Trump ever gets into power, again he will turn America into a fascist kleptocracy . That's why Trump admires people like Putin and Kim Jong Un.
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  333.  @routmaster38  Judges go by the evidence. Robinson can't have produced any evidence to support his case. If the judge was corrupt Robinson could appeal. I doubt he has any grounds for appeal. A man who can't even be truthful about his own name is not to be trusted. In this country you just can't go around making up defamatory nonsense about people without the risk of being sued and having to pay a big price for those lies.
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  334. He was busy saving the stone structure, the windows and the internal statues.
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  335. It's recorded in front of a live audience. The laughter is not canned.
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  336. If Susan Hall had won, would you have called it a victory for Christianity, or Atheism or whatever. In what small circles your mind must revolve.
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  337.  canceled by youtube again so what .  A comment from the ME ME ME, it's all about ME, culture.
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  338.  @pablodelnorte9746  I think the word 'debt' is not meant literally but metaphorically.
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  339. More comments here on appearance rather than anything been said. It's not a beauty contest. No wonder people elect such bad politicians when all they think about is superficial trivia.
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  340. No. This is the sensible wing of the Tory party. I didn't think it had one.
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  341. Hardly. Russia already has a bad record for killing "enemies of the state". Litvinienko being a case in point and many journalists and political opponents in Russia too.
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  342. I don't know how his name is meant to be pronounced, but I heard a TV announcer pronounce it like 'made off' which seems appropriate since he made off with all the money.
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  343. The speaker weakly said she didn't hear it but if he said it, she was sure he'd apologise. No one calls a person a shithole and you could actually hear the words 'because it's a shithole'. He was referring to the constituency. Someone has got at him and said that will lose the Tories lots of votes - pretend it was the MP you were insulting.
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  344. How did Boris do a good job? What exactly did he do or achieve for ordinary Londoners? Livingstone introduced Oyster cards and the congestion charge. Sadiq Khan has introduced two for the price of one bus journeys and frozen some TfL fares with plans to do more on fares and build more assordable housing . Boris was just a comedian.
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  345. By real American you must mean native American since everyone else is a descendant of immigrants.
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  346.  @Io-Io-Io  I watched it again and observed Palin. He laughed when Cleese called Jones a 'doddery old idiot'. When Cleese questioned Jones's reference to 'other people' Palin just looked confused as if he was trying to think what Terry Jones meant. I watched through and didn't see any disapproving expression on Palin's face. Generally women are more observant than men. Ask and scientist who has researched this.
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  347. I just listened to a programme about Abraham Lincoln and couldn't help making comparisons with Donald Trump. Lincoln came from a poor background, Trump comes from a rich one. Lincoln was genuinely concerned about the plight of the poor. Also he was not a vain man. Those are the kind of presidents America used to elect before the election system got corrupted by money.
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  348. What scares me is that if Labour fail (I hope they don't) and the Conservatives merge with Reform or vice versa, the country could swing to the far right in the next election.
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  349.  @c.l.1820  This is not true. You can wait a few days to see a GP but if it's an urgent matter in my surgery you can go in the same day and see the emergency GP. It's not the case that women give birth in a room filled with other people giving birth. They bring women who are about to give birth into a private room. I was even able to arrange to have a water pool brought into the room so I could have a water birth if I wanted.
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  350. Education is very important for understanding how the world works ( and for being able to spell 'immigration' correctly). The uneducated are vulnerable to simplistic solutions, often hateful and violent ones because anything else is too difficult to grapple with.
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  351. Not only did he not care but he asked for his supporters to be let into the Capitol with their arms. 'Take the MAGS (arms detectors) away he said' because he knew they'd not come to harm him, so by inference he did not care if they harmed others who were not towing his line.
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  352.  @mayshack  Oops. It was Samuel Johnson who said it.
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  353.  @PerfectTangent  Stop blaming socialists. Socialists have existed for over a century and from when Tolkien first started writing, without doing this to Tolkien.
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  354. Wasn't the government responsible for relaxing the building regulations?
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  355. The host seems to be panicking. Pathetic.
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  356.  @ulrichwessmann8465  That's not fair. The government does do things. It does a lot of damage. The Labour party is in opposition and can't do anything except call out the Tories, until the electorate put them into power. They also know that if there's no entertainment factor, the viewers turn off. Rayner knows it's a boys club and she'll be shouted down unless she gives as good as she gets.
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  357. I think it's because they stuck with their lockdown policy for so long.
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  358.  Leonaza7  Was he right when he said that the revolutionary army seized the airports in 1775?
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  359.  @jimjiminy5836  Because he is American and that's his name.
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  360. Emotional decisions are rarely good ones which is why other countries' leaders take their time and respond more rationally.
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  361. It was probably a bit slippery and wriggly as well as heavy and they do have teeth.
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  362. Space hoppers will be handed out by the Tories so people can experience 'bounce back'. That's 'the plan'.
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  363. I saw the film. I wouldn't describe Zhukov as coming across like a buffoon. They all seemed like scary figures but Zhukov was not a man you could scare I think. Anyway wasn't Stalin really jealous of Zhukov and his achievements in WW2? He kept Zhukov on a fairly low profile, given what a WW2 hero he was.
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  364.  @antonkider7360  or the most ignorant
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  365. This is a misunderstanding. The issue is not the pension age rise for women but the inadequate notification of the changes.
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  366. That's not multi-culturalism. That's Thatcherism. Remember she said 'There's no such thing as society - only families and individuals' and she certainly promoted individualism in the me me me society. She is a great heroine for the Tory party and many people who think she was right. The pressures of global capitalism also encourage and sometimes force competition rather than co-operation.
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  367.  @theyellyone9852  They also die sooner.
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  368. She's not there to butter anyone up but you can tell she's amused.
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  369. Queen Margaret was seen as a foreigner in England. Though she was French, Sophie Okonedo's background acts as a metaphor for that sense of difference.
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  370.  @chrisdstard5644 I don't think it's true that the English aren't welcome. The Irish are very friendly.
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  371. *affect.
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  372. The Committee is looking for information from the Unions to make their anti-strike legislation more effective. Lol.
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  373. I sometimes wonder if Putin's attitude is an agreed act with Trump so it doesn't seem too obvious that they are in each others pockets.
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  374. @Demoralisation Destabilisation Crisis Normalisation No I don't support tryanny. Far from it. I support altruistic action by people to care for the health of their communities and the protection of the NHS from being overwhelmed. These people support selfishness.
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  375.  @immortaltyrant2474  Ulster wasn't the only place 'planted' in Ireland. The whole of Ireland was 'planted' apart from the province of Connaught which wasn't thought to be worth having because of the poor and rocky soil and was therefore left to the Irish. The North was heavily planted due to its resistance as you say. It was the last to hold out against the British conquest. It also had some of the best most desirable arable land for farming. People planted included soldiers who had been involved in the subjugation of Ireland and English and Scottish merchants who bought the confiscated lands at auction. They weren't just nobles. There weren't enough nobles to hold all of the land and many nobles didn't want to live there. Dublin and Limerick were founded by the Vikings. The British took over Dublin and developed it, yes. They used it as a fortress area, a safe area for them when there was still resistance to British rule. It's from there we get the expression. 'Beyond the Pale' which was the area round Dublin where the native Irish were kept out from. There were some Catholics in Dublin as servants of the British etc but they did not have the same rights. Yes there were a few Catholic landlords eventually, but mostly Catholics had to convert to Protestantism in order to be given any rights including land ownership. You seem to think there would have been no development over time unless it came from Britain. I'm sure Ireland would not now be sitting without any electricity if it was not for the British. As it happens my Aunt lived in an area where they had no electricity or running water even by the 1970s. They had gas lighting from gas canisters and open fires, so the British didn't instal electricity everywhere and the centuries of impoverishment of the country continued to have its effects after the British left. The British did develop aspects of Ireland and infrastructure but it wasn't done for the benefit of the natives.
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  376. ***** It's rather a perverted  view to think that women walking around means they are looking for men to chat them up. You must have a very low opinion of women and men. Perhaps the men deserve that opinion if they can't treat women respectfully in public. Sad that they have to be restrained by draconian rules rather than their own sense of respect for themselves and others.
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  377. Julia Lawless, Well I do remember seeing a British TV show when I was young, about some Japanese legends, and all the characters were played by English actors in Japanese costume, make up and wigs. I enjoyed it very much for what it was. I didn't think too much about how appropriate the casting was. Even today, black actors get fewer opportunities to play some good roles, when the stories come from white history, so I really don't mind them being involved. I think it helps bring the stories alive for wider audiences. Margaret of Anjou was disliked and distrusted for being a foreigner (French) so although the actress isn't French her casting does help to accentuate that she's from a different background to the others. It's a sort of metaphor, and she acts the part so well. I very much enjoyed a TV show called "Versailles" where the main characters, the French King and his brother, were played by English actors and the show was in English (with French subtitles in France). Other actors came from England, Canada and France.The French TV company decided they needed to show it to the widest possible audiences internationally because the cost of making it was so high and they could sell it to more countries if it was in English.
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  378.  @Io-Io-Io  So now you seem to agree about women generally being more observant (contrary to your previous comment) but only to state something else against women. You like sweeping misogynist generalisations it seems. Good luck in life with that attitude.
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  379. +Onionbagel She gives a good performance though.
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  380. I remember when we were told that the introduction of automation and computers would give us all more leisure time, but it never happened that way.
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  381.  @justsomeguywithoutamustach2391  Nuking helps nothing and would kill millions of innocent people.
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  382. It sounds like you would not recognise a moral if it hit you in the face. Why is it moral to take taxpayers money without doing any work?
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  383. You certainly are. He would take all your rights away while cheerfully lying to your face about it.
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  384. It's funny how so many Labour critics can't spell. It's abhorrent but I can't see why. Most of the objection to her seems to be based on snobbery.
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  385. Harvey never preyed on older established actresses, only younger more vulnerable ones that he felt were more dependent on him for their career.
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  386.  @kevinb9830  You would not expect poverty pay for the training they have to undergo and level of responsibility they have but they should not have to accept pay reductions in real terms year on year to the extent that they can't pay their bills and it's not all about pay anyway. Nurses are under increasing pressure as many leave the profession and vacancies can't be filled. The Tories are happy to see the NHS collapse so they can continue with their plan to privatise it. The more nurses are lost and not replaced the less likely those waiting lists are to be reduced, rather they will grow. It's important for all of us for the service to survive and function.
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  387.  @pipins3616 He inherited wealth.
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  388. He certainly admires dictators in other countries and the way banana republics behave. He thinks the USA is merely a business and he's the boss.
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  389. Tice is the money and Farage is the mouth. Habib is not rich enough for them and has a foreign name and origins, not appealing to Reform followers. Ben Habib is naive. He has strong views on Northern Ireland and Brexit but doesn't understand either. He obviously didn't understand Reform either.
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  390. Only when taking off or landing or if the pilot warns of turbulence and advises it.
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  391.  @rijulsharma12  What, locked up in a cage with no window and no daylight and raped from the age of childhood? That doesn't seem to be much of an ambition.
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  392. I don't think God likes liars.
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  393. Don't be silly.
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  394. Only Tim Montgomerie is shocked. He doesn't know the Tories and neither do those naive volunteers.
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  395. Poverty?
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  396. He's as mad as Trump but with less charm.
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  397. Why is GB 'News' fixated on this trivia?
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  398.  @Insertnamehere287  Agreed. I just wondered if the 'near to home' factor was also in his mind.
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  399. The NHS cares though.
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  400. That's like asking for something for nothing since inflation reduces the value of pay, and just to get back the value of pay in real terms, through an inflation increase, the Tories are expecting more work. That's effectively a cut.
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  401. Really? I had no problem understanding her.
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  402. The protocol is the result of Brexit and the Brexit agreement that was reached, agreed and signed. It's not a separate thing that can be altered. Legal advice is that article 16 can't be invoked for the protocol. It doesn't come under article 16.
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  403. Is America still one of the foremost democracies when it seek to hinder voting?
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  404. I hope the term 'Dodgy Dave' was recorded in Hansard.
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  405. Sunak attacks the sick though he keeps them sick by maintaining long NHS waiting lists.
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  406. Viruses are always mutating. They don't stay the same.
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  407. Didn't Strauss say his name was pronounced Strowse? He corrected Oppenheimer's pronunciation the first time they met, or was it the other way around because Strauss wanted to move away from the German pronunciation of that name.
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  408. I had a cold in the run up to Xmas, and covid in January following attendance at a family funeral. The cold was far worse. Covid symptoms were just a foggy brain and tiredness for about 10 days. I know they were different because I took covid tests both times. I have had all covid vaccinations. I lost 2 sisters and a brother in law in the last 3 months of 2022. My sisters were twins aged 83. One had been ailing for a few months without a proper diagnosis. She ended up in hospital with covid but she also had other infections and they thought she might have stomach cancer as she'd not been able to eat for a while, but she was never tested for that before she died. The death cert said she died of 'old age' and pneumonia. This was in Wales. To my mind there was some neglect or slowness of response to her symptoms. The other sister died of non-hodgkins lymphoma. She had been treated for it previously (about a year or so prior) and thought all was o.k. She went into hospital for some check up and they would not let her leave saying she had 2 weeks to live, and she died 2 weeks later. This was in Birmingham. I am being treated now for a spread of breast cancer. When I noticed a tumour on the site just above where I'd had breast cancer before, I raised it with a GP who, without examining it, said 'it looks like a lump of fat'. I was so humiliated I did not go back to discuss it again for a year. After I did go back another doctor at the GP's surgery thought it wasn't cancer. She was disappointed that she could not book me for a diagnostic check later than 2 weeks. She told me to tell the hospital, when they rang, that my appointment 'was not urgent'. Fortunately the hospital sent me a 2 week appointment by letter and it turned out it was cancer. The operation was delayed for 4 months by covid lockdowns but the tumour was shrunk by medication in that time. The tumour was removed but no further treatment was given other than the tumour shrinking tabs. 3 years later the cancer had spread to my liver and a rib. This was in London. I just wonder whether the financial pressures on the NHS have a lot to do with excess deaths but some GPs could do with some extra training, I think. The GPs I saw had a lot of experience and one was the lead partner in the practice.
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  409. They're playing one's tune, Charles. 'It's a very interesting large piece of glass'. Lol. If she was being sarcastic she could not have done better.
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  410. Truss's thinking is like that of a primary school child. She's the boss of the person she's blaming. She has ultimate responsibility. It's not as if she didn't know what was in the mini-budget.
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  411. Must be nice for his wife, eh?
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  412. He just lies.
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  413. As I recall JRM didn't suggest that Grenfell residents had ignored safety advice, but said that they should have ignored the fire brigade's safety advice to stay put and await rescue. He said they should have had the common sense to leave the building. A very unfeeling comment, suggesting that the victims only had themselves to blame. He was involved with a hedge fund that moved to Dublin after Brexit and has since closed down I believe, yet he told everyone that Brexit would be great. JRM when challenged on his TV show has often revealed his ignorance but many people don't realise it because he speaks 'properly' like a toff and with such confidence and not usually in a situation where someone more knowledgeable has challenged him.
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  414. 3 books that made a deep impression on me as regards Irish history were 'Hell or Connaught' by Peter Beresford Ellis about the Cromwellian conquests in Ireland and the aftermath in terms of laws passed against the native Irish, the plantations and enforced migrations, and in the 19th century the books by Asenath Nicholson, American methodist social observer and philanthropist who visited Ireland just before the famine to investigate the conditions of the poor and who came back again during the famine to observe, record and help out. The conditions of life for many native Irish even before the famine were dire and unjust, and her travels and observations indicate how this was enforced. The native Irish were blamed for their own conditions but there was no way out for them. Improvements to their properties, land and cultivation merely meant their rents would be increased. They were largely socially shunned, regarded with contempt, discriminated against and exploited by the landowning class and churchmen, who were protestant descendants of planters. Even before the famine, many native Irish lived on the edge of it, relying on potatoes and little else for their meals and unable to get any steady employment. Often animals kept would need to be sold to pay rents. Hers was one of the few, observed and recorded written accounts of that period, and there are no real photographs of the famine period. She came with no particular bias except to bring the truth of the bible (methodist version of that) to Ireland, so it's all the more remarkable that she came to feel so deeply for the native Irish poor and to record the heartlessness, injustice and ignorance in her own kind in the landlord class. Her accounts are very heartbreaking. Periods of violence come and go in history, but it is the grinding awful lived experience from generation to generation that makes the history most tragic in my mind.
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  415. What would his opponents say his election slogan should be 'Parliamentary reject for Mayor'?
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  416. Keep on voting for crap Tory governments then.
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  417. Your comment seems sexist to me. I'm a woman and I did not think that.
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  418.  @praeliora  They didn't want to buy from Germany because of their stupid ideological determination not to buy from EU countries.
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  419. That doesn't bother me, but I find I'm always the one that has to move out of the way. Most other people don't bother and would walk close to me if I didn't take avoiding action.
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  420. They weren't even in a fighting zone, apparently.
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  421. She can't seem to make up her mind whether it's down to her class, bullying or a sinister conspiracy. Any old excuse will do, I suppose.
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  422.  @MarkBryan-tw5fq  Trump will prove it by himself
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  423. Sadly Raab is unable to stand up to a sausage roll attack.
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  424. The countries that are quietly and more effectively beating Covid 19 are the ones that are not being led by egomaniac macho orang utans.
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  425.  @paulungureanu937  Because he's lost all of his legal cases that have been heard so far, alleging fraud and other shenanigans and he lost them because he produced no evidence to back up his allegations. All the mainstream media, even those that are natural Trump supporters like Fox, accept that he has lost. I watched a documentary about Trump and his Dad taught him that there a 2 types of people - winners and losers but that winners are born that way - the superior types - it's in their DNA. Donald believes this, and I think he just can't accept that he can lose at anything. Sadly in life we win some things and lose others. That's life. Yes we should wait for the electoral college result, but he just doesn't have the numbers to win and can't overtake Biden at this stage. In his first election, Trump won with the same numbers as Biden at this stage and Hillary Clinton conceded.
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  426.  @codyray5469  He says that he could keep the US out of wars so I guess that means he'd let Putin have what he wants i.e. Ukraine and any other European countries he wanted after that. Ultimately the stronger Putin became the more he would feel able to challenge the US in all sorts of areas. Putin takes what he wants when no one stands up to him.
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  427. It's not a laugh track. It's recorded in front of a live audience.
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  428. The sad fact is the people vote for personalities and usually haven't a clue what the policies of all the main candidates are because they haven't bothered to read what's in the manifestos. Boris was good at giving planning permission to tall buildings and housing for the wealthy.
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  429. +North East Working Man What about all the tax concessions they keep making to the rich and the tax loopholes the government ignores that corporations and rich individuals exploit? There has to be some balance in who pays to get the economy back on track so that it's fair.
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  430. Written by Ben Elton who is a great fan of Shakespeare, a comedic writer and who probably writes with David Mitchell's talents in mind.
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  431. Henry Sims. Since when was the Duchess a "he"?
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  432. TheLine. There was no sugar then and women were more active.
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  433. Diagnosed with cancer in November 2019, I've had my cancer treatment postponed and it wasn't in discussion with me as Sir Simon Stevens suggested it should be. I just got a letter through the post today that my next appointment was being moved from April to July (but of course there's no guarantee the July appointment will go ahead either). I presume that means my operation scheduled in May won't go ahead but I've not been informed. I've been waiting for results of a test in mid February on an additional growth identified in last November to see if that's the spread of cancer. I've had no info on that, and no info when I'm likely to get the results of that test. I left a message with the hospital by phone some time ago and have had no reply to that. Now the electronic mailbox is full and it's impossible to get through to the people I need to. I've sent a letter but you only ever get back standard letters about appointments or cancellation of appointments. Communication is poor. I do have medication that is shrinking the diagnosed tumour which is the only thing keeping me from panicking now.
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  434.  mark larkin  He is undoubtedly working beyond the terms that he is being paid for.
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  435.  @petrfrizen6078  Commander in Chief of people he called 'losers'.
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  436. Joe was Biden his time.
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  437. This came on without me clicking on it. I can't bear to listen to this liar, so I'm off.
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  438. Sunak would probably refer him to PREVENT.
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  439.  @mogdaboi ' I'd have' or I'd've not 'I'd of'. Don't Trump supporters get an education? Merkel is equal to the task of what she's taken on. When you think that Germany had to make a success of the reunification of Germany, which involved the integration of East Germany with West Germany - an East Germany whose economy was vastly different from that of West Germany, and they did it successfully, the integration of German society will not be such a problem, particularly as they have a successful economy and a sensible intelligent leader. Trump made America wealthier for the wealthy, not for the ordinary Joe who can become bankrupt if he gets a serious illness and whose wages have flatlined or reduced. He's not made it safer when the USA is leading the world in the number of Covid 19 cases and Trump constantly flip flops and flaps uselessly in his response to that. Trump couldn't even manage his own businesses successfully and has quite a few failures behind him, only surviving because his debts were so big that his creditors couldn't afford to see him go under - a fine role model for nobody.
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  440.  @amcc5887  That hedge fund has closed down I heard but he's not short of wonga.
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  441.  @Nomad261  I don't recall her suggesting that someone should be shot.
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  442. It may have been posted by Russia but I never heard the Tories say it wasn't genuine.
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  443. Once the American companies take over NHS purchasing function, they will know which are the costliest patients (least profitable) and which are the most profitable. If we get to moving to health insurance that will affect premiums of whether insurance can be obtained at all. Even if we don't get to that, American companies will know which patients to cut costs with in order to maximise profits.
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  444. *lives
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  445.  @asw16177  You that voted leave have seen no benefits from your Brexit delusion and that's a problem for everyone.
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  446. Tax on fuel has not been raised for ages and is not being raised now. Thank your luck you don't rely on public transport. Have a beer. Tax is going down on that. The minimum wage is rising. Allowances for carers are rising. Really only those with more discretionary money available to spend on additional assets will be taxed more e.g. on profits on those assets when sold or inheritance tax after death. Employers will be taxed more but smaller employers with have exemptions.
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  447. If Labour get the economy growing again and the cost of living down or pay goes up, these people will start voting Tory again I fear. They will fall for the siren call of the Tories who claim to support aspiring workers to reach their ambitions. Most think of individual circumstances and not the welfare of the country as a whole.
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  448. It sounds like it might have been Covid. June to November is a large gap in time to start experiencing symptoms related to a vaccine. Hopefully you can get some clarity and more information.
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  449. So no bleach infusion then?
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  450.  @BalkanMode  Oh lighten up and join the 21st century. I'm sure they said that the first time women were allowed on stage. Shakespeare had to use men dressed as women of course.
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  451. Whatever he's taking, he's taking the piss.
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  452.  @simonmaskell365  His name is in Private Eye Magazine. The Head of Manchester police I understand.
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  453.  @vanquishable7844  I'm sure you know the law but I am surprised as I thought for redundancy to be declared, jobs were going because no longer needed, not workers being replaced with cheaper ones. This is the British definition of redundancy 'the state of being no longer in employment because there is no more work available'. This is on the UK government site 'Redundancy is a form of dismissal from your job. It happens when employers need to reduce their workforce.' This is also on the UK gov website ' Being selected for redundancy Your employer should use a fair and objective way of selecting you for redundancy. Commonly used methods are: last in, first out (employees with the shortest length of service are selected first) asking for volunteers (self-selection) disciplinary records staff appraisal markings, skills, qualifications and experience YOUR EMPLOYER CAN MAKE YOU REDUNDANT WITHOUT HAVING TO FOLLOW A SELECTION PROCESS IF YOUR JOB NO LONGER EXISTS, for example if: your employer is closing down a whole operation in a company and making all the employees working in it redundant you’re the only employee in your part of the organisation
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  454. @mk91-vz1oj Everyone can have an opinion.
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  455. She didn't beg Trump for a handshake. The journalists suggested it (they wanted a photo of it) and she was prepared for it but Trump sat there staring down, like a rude selfish little boy in a pathetic sulk.
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  456. He sounds like he's been taking sedatives.
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  457. But he is not 'diverse' except in his mental health.
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  458.  A Völpe  Not babying. It's the only way to control it in the absence of tests and vaccines.
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  459. I'd like to see Rod Liddle say 'get stuffed ' to a policeman. It would be entertaining to watch the consequence.
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  460. If he'd got to The Capitol that day wouldn't it have directly signalled that he was the leader of the attempted Coup?
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  461. I think Republicans may think this pressure to drop the NI protocol, or breaching of it, may benefit them, as NI, which actually voted to stay in the EU, will start to realise they might be better off by re-uniting with the Republic of Ireland, which is in the EU. The unionist DUP fear that too, which is why they are trying their hardest to destroy the NI protocol because that would make unity with the Republic less likely, so they think, but it would break the Good Friday Agreement and be at the expense of more fighting in the North which would cost Britain dear. Of course Boris would just not bother to have a trade border anywhere if it was up to him, but there would be consequences for that too. The USA and the EU are guarantors of the GFI.
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  462.  @briancarno8837  He had more competence that any in this government and especially Boris. At least he wasn't giving away billions of pounds to friends and cronies for no good result, or breaking the law and undermining the country's democratic system. Ay least he didn't fantasise about being King.
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  463. It's corruption that's at fault. The money they are supposed to get is not arriving. Probably stolen at higher levels.
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  464. He talks a lot of nonsense.
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  465. I have no confidence in his absolute confidence.
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  466. Trump's 'achievement', if it can be called that, is to make everyone suspicious of every bit of information they get from almost anyone in the government or the media now.
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  467. Sometimes people go to A&E when they should just be going to a GP. It will certainly have cut down on those cases. Also crime and stabbings etc and drunkeness leading to fights and accidents in public places will have reduced numbers going to A&E.
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  468. Trade deals aren't a success for British farmers though are they? The Australian trade deal won't be. Why does the Telegraph cover up the truth and it's not 5 years on since Brexit. We only Brexited at the beginning of 2020. The 5 year effects will be 5 years from 2020. This really is propaganda.
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  469. She's even more horrible though.
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  470. She probably reads The Sun, The Daily Mail or The Express and just accepts what they tell her.
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  471. We're delaying publishing the number of deaths, making them inaccurate, in order to ensure they are accurate. Sounds like political shennanigans to me.
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  472. @House Of Fleapit I know. She has a reputation as someone who is a strong confident leader but at the same time she seems nice and not at all aloof. She likes football and a pint (or a stein). I think she just uses her brains instead of a lot of shouting or unpleasantness.
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  473. The Geordie in the constituency is a staunch Tory. What a surprise.
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  474. Housing is screwed anyway and has been for a long time before this, but Brits do seem to keep voting in the party which is in the pockets of the developers. They don't want too much increased supply because short supply keeps house prices high.
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  475. It's no good having a free speech law (it's in the constitution actually) since Trump ignores it. The only speech he likes is the speech that agrees with him and flatters his ego. Trump is also sacking people in government bodies that are meant to predict weather events and help with the clear up.
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  476.  @gpw203  Ooh. You are a clairvoyant it seems. Give us some lottery numbers please or a tip for the horses. By the way the congestion charge is the responsibility of the recently re-elected Mayor of London, not the Prime Minister or the government.
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  477. You need to know a bit about Shakespeare and his plays to get the jokes, but not too much. They missed off the punchline here where the "posh boy" sees Kate and immediately forgets his obsession with Rosaline (as does Romeo in R&J).
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  478. death death death death breakfast, death death death death, lunch, death death death death tea, death death etc etc
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  479. OctoV70. Don't watch it then, if you don't like it. Your dramatic "suspension of disbelief" isn't working. Juliet in Romeo and Juliet is usually played by someone much older than 13 years but people don't usually complain.
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  480.  KEKKER TM  Kekker TM. You don't understand economics. Estate agents could not value properties at a price that the market would not bear. There have to be enough buyers who want to, or can, buy at that price, otherwise property would not sell. When demand exceeds supply prices go up. Somewhere to live is a necessity so people will prioritise that in their spending.
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  481. This didn't really cover how religion affects their politics. There was a mention about the importance of the family but presumably this movement is socially conservative and 'anti-woke' as they'd see it. Isn't it really reflected by what De Santis is doing in Florida? Wouldn't it be a huge setback for women and women's equality?
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  482. @googlecontrolled That could count as libel from you since she was cleared by the police and HMRC as having no case to answer.
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  483. Aren't Trump's businesses heavily dependent on Russian loans? Putin could pull the rug from under Trump at any time he chooses. While Putin rules Trump, he rules the USA.
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  484.  Smith kean  I notice you are dropping this same message around this comments page but sadly it's misleading to suggest that herbs can cure cancer . Look up Barry Sheene and Kathy Acker.
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  485. Do Boris Johnson and his government never plan ahead? (Rhetorical question, I know the answer).
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  486. He also whines a lot. It's toddler behaviour.
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  487. The health service in Wales is really slow. My sister died there in October waiting for diagnosis and treatment. Her husband waited 2 years for cataract operations.
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  488. It's not a laughter track. It's filmed in front of a live studio audience.
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  489. Now it's a cash cow for the Tories, and the City can continue with its money laundering having avoided the EU directive that would have cracked down on it.
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  490.  @kellysmallman8864  People with symptoms are also tested to distinguish whether it's Covid, flu or a cold or something else (COPD?). The worst of the symptoms may not develop until between 5-14 days and even if it's almost symptomless it may be deadly for others if you pass it on.
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  491. Knowledge is power, and in any case he relates good news as well as bad. Anyway I've tagged it for 'watch later', just in case something happens.
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  492.  @DrBox88  You missed it didn't you? Your comment was explaining why Edward I would be disgusted with England now and you explained that his disgust would be because of lack of liberties in modern times and you blamed 'leftists' for that. My comment was that there were far few liberties in Edwards' time and far from being disgusted he would approve of lack of liberties, and you have just agreed that there are more liberties now, contradicting your previous explanation for Edward's likely disgust. Logic is not your strong point it seems.
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  493. That wouldn't get you enough of a mortgage to buy in London where Eddie Dempsey lives and you have to have saved a hefty deposit. In any case he's only recently got that salary.
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  494. Can't these landlords at least supply dehumidifiers for the problems that are caused by condensation rather than leaks? Anyone would be depressed in these conditions.
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  495. She was/is a Trump supporter.
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  496. What if he's left instructions to release nuclear weapons if he doesn't pull through? In any case I guess the operating theatre will be guarded by armed troops with instructions to ensure no funny business. I'm guessing the timing of this is meant to guarantee that he'll be available for the victory parade on 9 May.
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  497.  @paladinsmith7050  What Ukraine wanted to do, in terms of aiming at NATO membership was surely up to Ukraine.
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  498. The contenders so far: the best of them are mediocre and the rest are awful.
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  499. Exacerbations? * Excavations.
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  500. He talks bollocks but that's what people seem to want to hear these days.
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  501. I doubt they want help from a racist.
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  502. So do they have to go to Anjou and find someone who looks like a typical Anjou woman?
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  503.  @valgambino8292  When did you wake up?
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  504. The Dance of the Oligarchs. (Tchaikovsky never thought of that one).
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  505. No. challenging Israel's policies towards Palestinians is not anti-semitic in itself. Israel has recently declared itself a Jewish state so all it's non Jewish citizens are no longer regarded as citizens it would seem, and they have been illegally encroaching on Palestinian lands.
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  506. This ended because the British granted 100 more fishing licences to French fishermen.
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  507. Interesting that the Bahamas have the same national colours as Ukraine.
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  508. The poor Chinese guy will probably get sent for 'retraining' with the Uighurs if they do show it.
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  509. OMG. It could be Nadine Dorries for the health department. She's been called into no 10 and surely isn't to get Sunak's job. This woman is the epitome of ignorance and prejudice and sycophancy towards Boris. P.S. Thank goodness it was not to give her the health department. but it seems it was to check her level of loyalty.
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  510. Corrupt
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  511. 'British values' will end up being what the Tories say they are, even though they themselves may not necessarily abide by what is often considered to be among them (such as tolerance, fairness and democracy).
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  512. The Tories act as if the plight of the NHS is nothing to do with them. Lol. I fear dentists though when they get paid more for more complex work, because there's always the risk they will do more complex work when it's unnecessary.
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  513. Except that all but one of the lobsters was blown up and even that one may not have been far enough away to survive.
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  514. The EU are sticking by their rules. The UK government can't get around the fact that they won't bend to the UK government's will. They are not going to agree anything that undermines the EU. Why would they? The UK is not going to get access to the single market without following the same rules as everyone else with access to it.
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  515. What CODswallop. Who cares what he likes to eat or what music he likes? Anyone who votes on that basis has a brain like mushy peas.
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  516. Is there a link between asthma and lack of vitamin D I wonder (everywhere not necessarily in India).
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  517. Sometimes what people want from you is just company. There will be others like yourself.
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  518. He really didn't want Boris to escape responsibilities by turning it into opposition leaders questions. It's up to Boris to make the decision about schools, he's the PM. Starmer already said in previous sessions that children could go back once it's safe to do so.
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  519. Not everyone, just the 'Britain First' candidate and supporters who seem to have lost the art of British 'fair play' and British good manners. So much for their so called love of British culture.
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  520. They must have gone to the 'I Saw You Coming' design company.
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  521. and witty
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  522. In this case the card has been dealt by a Tory donor without any prompting.
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  523. It rings true that they could have put the camera up to catch him doing this to force him to resign since, it was reported (leaked?) that this was not the first time they'd been caught canoodling, but this was the fist time on camera.
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  524. It's great that a Shakespeare play is getting so many views. So many Shakespeare fans!
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  525. Re the 'most convincing part of her speech', what she was (unwittingly) referring to in her experience in Scotland was not about growth but about fair distribution of wealth. The Tories have never been about fair distribution of wealth and are not now.
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  526.  @GrowingUpMixed  But the proposal isn't to take away all guns.
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  527. This is the model the UK government so admires and wants the UK to follow and they are being pretty successful at pushing us down this road. To some of these companies, employees are just assets to be sweated until they break down and are then discarded. Having no annual leave in jobs like these will soon break down people's health.
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  528.  @mick6370  It's not a mild cold. It can thicken the blood and cause clots and strokes, and damage lungs and other organs. My brother in law had it and had a stroke during it. He's had 2 more strokes since and seems to be dying now.
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  529. Whatever changes the Tories might propose before the next election, will there be trust in the Tories, given the level of incompetence, chaos and confusion in the Tory government over the last 13 years?
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  530.  @jakedickson2311  A survey found only 6% of people in NI were unhappy with the protocol. The rest want it implemented. Not surprising as NI have a better deal than the rest of the UK. Meanwhile Boris and the DUP keep stirring things up for ulterior motives. Boris is trying to pressure the EU into caving in to changes, though he and they signed up to the deal. The DUP want to wreck the Good Friday Agreement. It's criminal really because Boris is prepared to sacrifice the peace and safety of NI in order to boast to Britain that he actually got some benefit out of Brexit because so far no benefit has been identified.
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  531. The only problem with the protocol is that the DUP don't accept if for political reasons, but the protocol is about trade not politics and it's giving NI the best of both worlds, in terms of trade, and boosting its economy, which the British government doesn't like because it shows up the rotten Brexit they have on the mainland. NI voted to stay in the EU and most people there are content with the protocol. Both the DUP and the British government are ignoring the democratic will of the majority of the people of NI as expressed in the election results. The protocol parties, Sinn Fein and the Alliance and SDLP parties outnumber those politicians objecting to the protocol.
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  532. The compensation is not about the change in pension age or the years worked but about the inadequate notification of the age changes which did not allow women to prepare.
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  533. The Tories must be desperate.
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  534. I think you see things from a tormented point of view.
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  535. No one expects Muslims to drink and "go on the lash" in order to integrate. Not all the native community do these things. It's just that there is freedom which allows it.  If your aim is to take freedoms away, that's not British.
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  536. +North East Working Man They did have jobs. That's how they got to be experts in their fields.
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  537. How dare you Gavin Sharp. Clearly you've never been to Hampstead, Highgate, Muswell Hill, Crouch End, lovely "villages" all. London also has more parks than any other city I can think of.
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  538. But somehow it will all be blamed on Biden, or some other scapegoat.
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  539.  @goatlps  It is due to Brexit. The current rules are the ones that apply to any third country that is not in the EU. The UK is not in the EU. In fact UK has a more favourable position than most 3rd countries as it has a deal with the EU that avoids tariffs. Without that tariffs would be added to all this bureaucracy and customs duties. It amazes me that Brexiteers are surprised by the rules that apply to 3rd countries. They could have looked this up at any time in the last 5 years.
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  540. They are just reporting what happened.
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  541. So would you be if your race meant you were constantly picked on for no reason. The policeman also tried to taser him when he was doing nothing but standing still.
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  542. They tried this on with my brother in law. Their explanation to my sister (his wife) was that 'the government wants us to free up hospital beds'.
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  543. Mordaunt always seems to make basic mistakes. Fancy not knowing that the Labour Party Manifesto referred to is available. Googling is all she needed to do. As for bringing it up on a weekly basis when it's now defunct and deliberately misleading people about it, that's pathetic.
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  544.  @justintallevi1703  Not at all. I would prefer believers in democracy who would fight for something worth fighting for. It would be no good being protected by tyrants for a miserable future under them.
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  545.  @problemsolverthinktank859  If the election does not happen until 2024 they have 2 years of pain ahead, though many innocent voters will also suffer, sadly.
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  546. People have said that throughout the ages to every new invention.
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  547.  @dabblerdeluxe775  Aspirin also thins the blood and prevents strokes. Covid can thicken the blood and cause strokes. He seems to have a very bad diet - junk food. That won't help his immune system.
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  548. Because you didn't understand the facts here and the disaster it will be for the UK economy, if there's no deal with the EU? All hard Brexiteers should be forced to share the economic deficit from Brexit among themselves.
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  549. He stands for ensuring government does nothing to prevent the wealthy from continuing to enrich themselves at everyone else's expense. He was in a hedge fund whose actions partly caused the financial collapse of 2008.
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  550. Pay rises, housebuilding, NHS improvement, investment to produce growth.
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  551. Fox seems intent on killing off its viewers.
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  552.  @sarangistudent8614  What you say may all be so but he's still shown himself to be a racist when it comes to non Hindus.
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  553. I think when he said the reactor had become a nuclear bomb he was using a metaphor rather than meaning it literally. He wanted a non technical audience to understand the gravity of what was about to happen.
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  554. Trudeau is nice to Trump - he's weak. Trudeau stands up to Trump - there's a special place in hell for him. What!
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  555. Yeah, but the point is to let them know how the public is feeling. They are so protected and do so much behind closed doors and then pretend in controlled media forums, that what they are doing is what the public wants. It's refreshing to see them have to encounter the real world and the people whose lives they are affecting and that people make an effort to attend and make their views known.
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  556.  @romulomoraes1986  I will tell you how he'd profit. The ESL would attract a bigger worldwide audience as any fan wherever they are would be able to access games on a pay per view, or other pay option. The ESL would also attract more sponsorship, TV revenue, advertising revenue and revenue from gambling companies. There is no relegation in the ESL so no risk of losing money and the gravy train would continue endlessly. Then, when they have a worldwide audience established, they would change the name to World Super League, base it in the USA, bring in celebrity performers for half time in important games, and use cheerleaders to make up for lack of genuine atmosphere and genuine spontaneous fan responses. Then to make it more 'exciting' , 'widen its appeal' and allow less skilled (American) players to succeed they would get rid of the offside rule and tinker with other rules. Would the end stage be match fixing?
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  557.  @georgeplatt4612  That's delusional. If there were English people wanting and qualified for the jobs they would have taken them by now but there are ever increasing numbers of vacancies in the NHS that can't be filled.
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  558. Harry's wealthy in his own right as he inherited millions from Diana and if he wants an independent private life away from the Royal family, and in another country, he can certainly afford to pay for his family's security. He can't have his cake and eat it, - have the financial support of the taxpayer without any of the duties that go with being a taxpayer funded Royal.Charles knows what the British public will put up with and what they won't and they won't want to support an ex Royal with taxpayer money. Meghan has a similar sense of entitlement and perhaps she thought Archie would secure the meal ticket.
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  559.  @rolandrimann8788  Thank goodness you two can't vote for her then.
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  560. People who can't be arsed to go to their GP and turn up at A&E for minor ailments are no longer going there for fear of catching Covid 19. Also with more people at home and bars and pubs not open there are fewer work accidents and fewer accidents due to alcohol consumption and drunken fighting.
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  561.  @doody244  The problem with that is that it would cause rifts and ill-feeling within the family. Also as Edward is the 4th child of the King, over time, down the generations, the inherited title would move further and further from the Royal family.
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  562.  @mrrey8937  Not true. That was a lie. The bill was the same and the spending was always mandatory.
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  563.  @awestruckcanuck  I'm aware of the risks from the AZ vaccination, but the clotting risks from Covid are much higher . My brother in law suffered from those during his Covid illness. He had a stroke during the illness and now can't walk, can't make himself understood and can't feed himself. P.S. He's not young though.
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  564. That's not unusual for local or Mayoral elections if you do some research.
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  565.  @iaf6563  It's normal protocol not to say good manners when leaders meet, to shake hands. Angela is a friendly person by nature too. Trump is a child who's playing childish games. You can disagree on things without making it personal. He's playing to the crowd.
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  566. Hippocratic oath
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  567. He did stand up against them at times. As a replacement, the government will be looking for someone who won't stand in the way of ever greater privatisation of services under American health companies.
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  568. This is an incorrect use of statutory instruments. They are meant to be used for minor issues of finance.
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  569. The woman's daughter said the dogs were XL bullies.
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  570. * scared not scarred. That means something else.
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  571.  Test86 One4  Stop taking the drugs.
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  572. Don't deflect the issue elsewhere. The EU and USA did take some measures including encouraging rapid vaccination and other measures. What did Bolsonaro do to protect the Brazilian people and reduce the spread of Covid? Nothing.
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  573. We never had a proper revolution in Britain so the attitude of those in charge never changed that much.
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  574. You should look at his voting record.
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  575. Ignorance and indifference.
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  576. How do you know they are guilty?
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  577.  @mmalam8148  They also do something called 'shorting' which is betting against the performance of the UK economy.
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  578.  @Confessionofteenagenuns  Well that probably because you only read Tory press. The Blair/Brown government reduced child poverty through child benefits and working tax credits and helped families with under school age children with Sure Start Centres. Pay was higher under Labour and we got minimum wage and paternity leave and better maternity leave. Equalities legislation helped women and the disabled among others. The NHS had the lowest ever waiting lists and the best ever results in the patient satisfaction survey. N Ireland got peace. Scotland and Wales got devolved governments. They also actually built and renovated hospitals instead of pretending to like the Tories and put more investment into education.. They created education maintenance allowances for 16-19 year olds to help them afford to stay at school for A levels which benefited working class kids. Students did not have to pay back their student grants. There were more leisure centres and youth centres for teenagers so they had safe meeting places rather than hanging around the streets. There were fewer homeless people. I'm sure there's more.
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  579. @Ken Fullman I'm prepared to accept that I'm wrong but if so why do the DUP seem to fear that and why do they want to destroy the NI protocol? That' protocol gives trade benefits to NI that are not available to the rest of the UK. They should be pleased. The 'border' down the Irish sea is just for trade and to demarcate where the protocol benefit applies. It doesn't affect the identity of NI nationals.
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  580. @Ken Fullman The ROI toes the line of the EU because it is a member of the EU and unlike the UK government it does not renege on its obligations under treaties. It does not trust the UK, either as the UK government has broken agreements and has tried, and is still trying to undermine the Good Friday Agreement through doing away with the NI protocol which safeguards it, whereas the EU is a guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement. Not only that but the ROI has a history which includes 900 years of bad experiences with the UK.
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  581. Trump shows he doesn't understand Covid 19 by criticising testing to find 'cases'. Yes young people with Covid who are undiagnosed are likely to get better, but unknowingly they may have passed it on to people who won't.
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  582. It's a kind of dialect thing among the black community. Many Londoners can't say the TH sound and use V or F instead but there seems to be no problem with that.
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  583. Because before 1963 Nigeria was part of the British Empire so technically he was her subject.
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  584. What's that got to do with this video? Looking at the skin of his arms and legs, he looks white.
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  585. Not a wave of lawsuits because they are justified but a lawsuit to stop Biden - says it all. If Giuliani is 'one of the people' I'm a cuckoo clock.
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  586. When they say 'all options remain on the table', they mean they've no plan and no clue.
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  587. It's short for Penelope which was probably what she was named. I don't suppose they thought about the need to avoid what small minded people might think.
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  588. I'm surprised that Boris wasn't all for the ESL it since he was caught praising 'greed' in a Cabinet meeting, but then he doesn't want to lose votes from 'the red wall'.
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  589.  @stephenmurray2851  2nd generation is not an immigrant. If it were, and you are of Anglo Saxon descent, since I am a Celt, you would be an illegal immigrant to me ,as would be the Romans and Normans.
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  590. 'The OECD has forecast that Britain will record 0 per cent economic growth next year. The UK is forecast to have the lowest economic growth of any major economy bar Russia next year.'
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  591. * lack of respect, I think you mean, although 12 people seem to be agreeing with your statement that he's not disrespectful enough. Lol.
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  592.  @mikeed1944  What's heard immunity? Immunity from being listened to?
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  593. @Demoralisation Destabilisation Crisis Normalisation *their life. It's not freedom to lock yourself in a basement. This is about controlling the virus to minimise the amount of restrictions we need to go through as a society. It's not about 'I'm all right Jack' and in any case some people who have mild conditions initially go on to have longer term damage. You can't predict who those will be.
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  594.  @mick6370  Learn to live with it or learn to die with it you mean.
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  595.  @opalfruits8596  It's not mild for everyone.
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  596. I guess this theory arose because there are videos of female Israeli border guards who said they witnessed a build up of activity in Gaza near the Israeli border before October 7th. They reported this back to their headquarters many times but said they were ignored.
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  597.  @sali8312  Sometimes the news that emerges first from a confused situation may not be the most accurate. The whole world is not driven by conspiracy. Maybe it looked as though he had died at the station. Maybe they managed to revive him again at hospital for a short while. Maybe he wasn't pronounced dead until at hospital as it takes a doctor to do it. Who knows? More details may emerge.
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  598. That's not what the polls say.
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  599.  @jackcogi9586  And look how that turned out.
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  600. John Morris. It's not a communist country. It's a mafia style criminal state now.
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  601. The EU was not to blame for austerity but it became a convenient scapegoat.
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  602. Good. One less person getting in the way of Londoners One less person clogging up the tubes, trains and buses and creating long queues. Please tell everyone else you know not to come either.
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  603. Don't pigeonhole her. I've seen her do some great tragic parts on stage. She's funny in real life and can do comedy and comedic acting but she is a serious actress too. Very versatile actually.
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  604. +Say That's probably the part when she is quoting a sonnet from Shakespeare.
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  605. I don't think governments will mandate vaccines, but what I think may happen is that private companies, such as airlines, may ask for proof of vaccination.
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  606.  KEKKER TM  It's a bit more complicated. To upsize buyers still have to convince mortgage lenders that they can afford the extra mortgage amount. In the UK it's true that housing has traditionally been a safer bet than other investments to ensure the best return on investment. Since many of the Conservative government are shareholders or directors in property companies or their associates are, and they also represent those people, the suspicion is that they have no interest in a real increase in supply of housing which would slow down house prices, so their policies don't encourage or facilitate house building and sometimes actually place restrictions on it. In the UK it's not generally individuals who build their own homes. They tend to buy homes ready built by developers. The Conservatives believe in leaving everything to the market so they would say that there's more demand for properties near Universities. That pushes up prices, but that's just the market in operation. They don't believe in interfering with the market.
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  607. Ireland is beautiful because it's never been really industrialised but that means there aren't many jobs in the countryside and it's largely a rural country with not many cities. Also there's an aspirational aspect to Irish emigration - people looking to better themselves and their material position. Immigrants to Ireland are prepared to work in low paid jobs that maybe Irish people don't want be because they want something better.
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  608. You say that there's nothing Europe and the US could have done about the disease in the beginning to avoid the spike, but certainly the UK government ignored reports for years that 1) A pandemic was the top most likely threat to the UK and 2) reports in more recent years and as late as 2019 that there was insufficient preparation for it in terms of PPE and a plan to combat it etc. Recommendations in those reports were ignored by the UK government. I wonder if there was anything similar in the USA.
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  609. The racism is strong in that comment.
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  610. Even though Russia has been involved in the Syrian government's war against Islamic State in Syria?
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  611. Eh? It's about the Tories trying to save their skins at future elections.
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  612.  @pm2886  Take a second job, or a third job or a fourth job until you drop from exhaustion.
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  613.  @pm2886  These days most cities are expensive and people don't always have a choice about whether they live alone.
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  614.  @donkeevney  Regardless, she's more competent than Boris.
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  615. This is misbreeding. It's a cruel thing to breed animals with inbuilt physical problems.
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  616.  @juliapigworthy  Rather a paranoid perspective but it could be a good plot for a science fiction novel.
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  617. You're joking. That's like preferring the Nazis to any others.
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  618. @Fallen Soul I was a student in the 1970s doing social studies and what you call woke ideology was not around then. Feminism was because of the inequalities of the time. Feminism was about equal rights for women and equal rights for gay people was also a movement, but there wasn't such a focus on language, or gender more widely or on censoring or banning literature. People debated different views but they didn't generally try to censor or de-platform people with different views (though there was a lot of protest against people with racist or Nazi views) or get obsessed with statues. The idea of further education is to equip young people with the skills to research, analyse, debate and make their own minds up. It was not indoctrination. I blame the corporate world and the internet for going over the top. The corporate world is about profit and is terrified of offending people in case it hits their sales and profits. The corporate world includes the media.
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  619. 'Kwasi Kwarteng's prodigious package was pointing in the wrong direction so Liz Truss was happy to chop it off'. Lol. You're the master of the double entendre.
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  620.  Floopy Doopey  That's not true, but the sad truth is the immigrants that arrive seem more educated and aware than the native population. It's depressing.
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  621. Blah blah, how you've ingested tabloid bilge.
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  622.  @ssrmy1782  The Tories only let the British die, from poverty, I suppose.
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  623. Free to be pumped with fake news.
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  624. He's a snake oil salesman
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  625. So many people proud to be dumb.
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  626.  @reko7264  The British people do protest, they just don't normally riot like the French do.
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  627.  Kyle Robinson  Idiots prefer conspiracy theories over science.
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  628. How can they 'not qualify for Universal Credit'?
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  629. And the Tories, since 2010 have reduced the central grant to local government by up to 80% and also tied local government's hands more. They love to centralise power. Some funding is raised locally via council tax but there are central caps on that.
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  630. If someone works that hard for such terrible results they should maybe take a rest.
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  631. When governments don't know what will happen, they try to sound positive.
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  632. Because Trump approves of his activity.
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  633. How long have you got?
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  634. Denmark comes higher up the world happiness index than the USA. Californians could be happier under Danish rule.
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  635. The solution is for the UK to join the customs union.
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  636. Of course he knows how famous he is.
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  637.  @petergriffin3194 When will the Tories ever take responsibility for their own mess?
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  638. You are heroes.
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  639. travelled.
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  640. @SillySausage2024 Those are the children (other people's children) that will be looking after the childfree when the childfree hit the care home stage or need social services. Children of the next generation pay the tax to fund the pensions of the older generation, the state pensions that everyone gets. They are also providing the cheap services that allow those with money (the childfree) to live a nice life.
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  641. Everyone's cannon fodder to Boris.
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  642.  @SC-mw2yc  If you watch any Robert Plant interviews about that time, he says it was the end of the band as far as he was concerned. He seemed to relent later on and did work again with the band but not permanently. If you read Jimmy Plant's Wikipedia page it's clear he wanted to carry on even as late as 2014 but he didn't believe Plant did. Also even in more recent interviews they both say they could not carry on when Bonham died as they could not replace him and they stopped touring at that time also. Jason did some projects with them but it was never permanent. My view is that though a guitarist's talents don't change with age, Plant later felt he couldn't do the same frontman performances or be the same persona that he was in the 70s version of the band, and he wanted to try different things.
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  643. Hillary did win the popular vote by 3m. If the electoral college puts Trump in again the country will have a heck of a job ever trying to get him out. He has already spoken about how things should change so that he gets a 3rd term too. I think it will be difficult to get him to leave this time if he loses. He won't accept it.
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  644.  Jacob L  Not as boring as you.
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  645.  @iaf6563  I say what I see. I'm not deluded about Trump like you are.
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  646. You should look at his voting record before making judgements. He's more right-wing than you might think.
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  647.  @Chittamama16  * folk is a plural term. No need for an s at the end.
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  648.  @ed.771  The Lords are sometimes the only ones with sense when governments lose theirs.
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  649.  Howdy Partner  Apart from the fact that America has no socialist party, what anti-democratic behaviour has Biden displayed? Trump has displayed a number of anti-democratic behaviours.
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  650. I wouldn't have thought his personality type was on the chart.
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  651.  @seeker3507  the war will end if Putin stops his aggression.
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  652.  @AT-gr4qx  Why? She's not been convicted of anything, unlike many Tories.
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  653.    Sadly if Corbyn loses with the most radical change programme since 1945, I fear the Labour Party will turn back to some middle of the road leader - a Tory lite leader, and we'll be back to politics that don't change anything for the better for the majority of people. This is a chance, that if people don't take they won't get again for maybe a long time and maybe never, and it will end up with more gloom despondency and apathy. I don't think people will turn away from Brexit until they've voted Boris in and experienced the reality. It will be too late by then and the nation will carry on being more divided and more bitter and violent towards foreigners and political opponents. That's the only weapon the Tories will have left at that stage, to deflect criticism from themselves and their failures.
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  654. How would business in the UK cope with all 4000 EU laws abolished at once? As for Kelvin MacKenzie, it's not all about you, you, you is it? What about what other Brexit voters thought they were signing up for or didn't realise they were signing up for? How would getting rid of the legislation make us 'true leaders in industry' as Rachel Watkyn said Sunak said? No one would want to trade with us if we have different rules to other big trading blocks. It's too costly to make product lines to fit too many individual countries that's why trade prefers the simpler less costly option of trading with bigger trading blocks.
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  655. He seems a genius compared to Boris and his lunatic idiots.
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  656. Boris is only interested in obedience. That's 'success' on his terms.
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  657. No she's good because her arguments are good but it requires a brain to listen and understand arguments rather than judge the person by her age, or experience. Cortez may not have been able to pay her rent because she wasn't earning enough at the time but Trump inherited billions and went bankrupt numerous times and people voted for him as someone who must have ability because he's rich - no if he'd just invested and sat on his inheritance he would be richer than he is now, for all his business 'deals'. He also damaged a lot of other business people and workers when he went bankrupt because they didn't get paid what he owed them.
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  658. He just lies.
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  659. He looks strangely like a relative of Alan Rickman - nothing alike in character though.
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  660.  @Confessionofteenagenuns  A decade ago Labour was not in power and could not do anything against a Tory government with a huge majority.
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  661. Would you buy anything from a man who doesn't respect rules, the law or the need for consumer protection? I would not.
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  662.  @um02122  Yes some have been eradicated. Maybe they don't mutate, but not flu or common colds which do.
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  663. Immigrant worrying that things were getting easier for immigrants - that's because the economy was growing.
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  664. Our homeless are on the streets because the government doesn't have the will to home them. They were homed during last year's Covid lockdown.
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  665. I'm sure they work harder than you as they often put in a lot of unpaid overtime to meet deadlines. You're just speaking from a position of prejudice and ignorance - a bit like Priti Patel.
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  666. I also loved his witty comment on Matt Hancock. 'I would buy him at my valuation and sell him at his and make a healthy profit'.
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  667. I don't think moving her hair was 'physical violence', but it's just rude and unmannerly. The woman is antediluvian but she has stepped down from her post now.
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  668. Pence has nothing under his belt.
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  669. They are ideologically poles apart. The government does not believe in unions, the public sector, or human rights.
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  670. There were softer Brexit options that the Tories ignored, such as remaining in the customs union or the single market. Those would have taken out the bureaucracy. However full membership is the best option but probably not deliverable now in this generation.
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  671.  @bb5979 Is it? Where are the Brexit benefits then?
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  672.  Rob C  That's a great joke.
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  673.  @grtcara8386  Stop blaming boomers. That is just scapegoating. Boomers are often now supporting the younger generation in order to help them out and not all boomers vote Tory.
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  674. A second dose of the poison won't cure the effects of the first.
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  675. How is it turning the UK into a prison? That's a bit of a myth. 99% of UK expenditure is controlled by the UK government. Recently Mark Rutte, P.M. of the Netherlands said no-one in the EU is now promoting the idea of a superstate or greater union.
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  676. He doesn't care about policy. He doesn't care about geography. He just wants to do what he wants to do regardless of anything - regardless of facts and logic and truth.
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  677. I'm sure the Nazis thought the same.
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  678. So many bad things going on all over the world it feels a bit overwhelming now.
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  679. I don't think the council should clean the beaches. They should leave people's rubbish on it. That would deter people from coming back unless they are prepared to clean up their rubbish.
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  680.  @harleydude-xo8pu  Blockheads will always label as alt left people of reason, people who value the constitution, and people who think and tell the truth. Also the self described alt right seem to assume there is an alt left but there isn't. There's just the left.
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  681. * should have or should've
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  682. The way they treat women is appalling.
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  683. The English actually invited the first German King over to rule them.
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  684. You couldn't make it up.
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  685. In the UK people wanted a better life for themselves and their families after WW2. They thought they deserved it after going through the war and they did not want to return to the kind of life that people lived in the 30s where there was lots of poverty. They put all their energy into 'the future' and creating more life after the death and destruction of WW2. It was a vote of hope. All the investment into rebuilding after the war created job opportunities and an economic boom in the 1960s. People believed in progress.
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  686. Does anyone believe this person knows what she is talking about?
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  687. Too little investment by the privatised water companies while an enabling but inactive government looks on.
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  688. As opposed to rushing to jump off the cliff.
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  689. Who is going to engineer that? His party dominates Congress and the Senate.
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  690. I do thank Khan.
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  691. Well he explained the roundness of the Earth as a function of gravity. That's an explanation not a description.
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  692. David Gomez. Don't you know the difference between a communist and social democrat? A social democrat believes in capitalism and democracy but believes in the welfare state and some state intervention in society to make it fairer. Communists believe in revolution. They don't believe in capitalism or (traditionally) in democracy as we know it. They believe in "the people" taking over the means of production -basically nationalisation of all companies. Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, is a Social Democrat for instance. Germany is the most successful economy in Europe.
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  693. He is reflecting the sun
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  694. +Anastasia Novikova Tell us some authors names so we know. I like Turgenev, Gogol, Solzhenitsyn as well as Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.
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  695. Adarcus Who is manipulating him? Richard was once a boy King and may have been manipulated then but not when he was an adult. He was not a very good King except in his support of the arts and unlike Henry IV who ousted him, he did not persecute heretics, but Shakespeare makes him sympathetic when he loses power.
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  696. I can't remember who said it, but they said the successful politician will be the one best able to fake sincerity. Cameron kept saying "we're in it together" but under his leadership the gap between rich and poor got ever wider.
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  697. Centurion. It's certainly not a joke. It's a good performance and you forget about the casting if you watch the whole thing and get involved with it. Also the character she's playing was regarded with suspicion and dislike, being a foreigner (French). Though Sophie isn't French her casting acts as a good metaphor for people perceiving her different background at the time
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  698. +North East Working Man Surely the benefits are keeping those grandkids out of poverty and giving them a better start than otherwise?
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  699. They can't do the impossible or save the stupid from their stupidity and they should not be asked to break the law. The government can change the law for f*ck's sake if they don't like it.
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  700. *you should've known that.
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  701.  @deanalford8417  The government themselves deny having any responsibility or involvement in the negotiations, but behind the scenes they are not mediating, they are merely blocking negotiations and settlement offers.
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  702. If only Liz Truss had had less focus.
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  703. The NI protocol does not cause Brexit problems in NI more than in the rest of Britain. It's actually a better deal for NI than without the protocol - a better deal for the economy in NI than the rest of Britain. The majority of people in NI want the government to implement it fully. It's only the DUP that are strenuously complaining and that's really for underlying political reasons, but the DUP are motivated only by hate and fear - the desire for one part of the NI community to hold onto power at the expense of the other part, and fear of NI people preferring to solve the border issue via a united Ireland.
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  704.  @wodenravens  The difference is that only the wealthier had fun in the 20s. In the 60s working class people could have fun too.
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  705. Well, voting on the basis of looks is a great idea isn't it and so mature?
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  706. I read recently that Ofgem are not going to protect the credit people have with energy companies as a result of too high direct debits, so if energy companies go bust people's credit will be lost/absorbed against the debts of energy companies, and that will include any money in those credit balances that came from the government - quite an incentive to go bust
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  707. Boris can't sack him because Boris doesn't know what to do without Cummings telling him
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  708. Khan is also British and a Londoner and Londoners don't share your racist views. She is a Trump supporter though.
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  709.  @john.highheels.3244  I'm a celt. If you are an Anglo Saxon you are as much of a foreigner and Johnny-come-lately to me, moreover your ancestors invaded these islands with violence, but hey, let's be tolerant now.
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  710. The staff in the video don't look well protected in terms of PPE and the woman waiting to see her dying mother could also catch the virus if she doesn't have effective PPE.
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  711.  @janellestuckey8477  When I was checking in for the first booster the person checking me in asked a number of questions about my health. I mentioned that I'd had cancer and was taking an anti cancer drug. She immediately told me I'd need a second booster as I would be classified as immunocompromised. However, I checked further and my anti cancer drug is not classed as chemotherapy, so I didn't need a second booster. I suppose I was prepared to take the 2nd booster, if I'd needed it, on the balance of risks. P.S. Don't be sorry for me. I'm not sorry for myself. In fact I feel privileged to have lived in a time when medicine can do so much for people.
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  712. He kind of twisted things to say Labour wanted a confidence vote (which they did at some stage) so we (the Tories) were happy to comply. No acknowledgement that he made a mistake or told a lie. No apology. Seamless dishonesty is his forte.
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  713. Many comments about the casting, almost none about the play, from people who've not watched the whole play I suspect. In some castings, like that of Harriet Tubman, the race of the character is important to the drama but it's not crucial in this play for Margaret. She was regarded as a foreigner anyway as she was French but it's not crucial that she be played by a French woman.
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  714. Ah,just find some nice videos of kittens on youtube and the bad news will go away.
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  715. NHS stands for National Health Service not National Health System.
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  716. So simple isn't it?. I wonder why better heads than yours have struggled with the issues for 4 years. They should have put you in charge. Wasn't I G Farben a German industrialist that supported the Nazis?
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  717. Good. If Musk's having it tough. I will get our my tiny violin. I'm sure those he is sacking may be having it tougher.
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  718. He didn't give any commitment. The title is a bit overblown. He calls his government a 'one nation' government but it's nowhere near that. I note he also pinches Labour's slogans and ideas when convenient though he's not sincere when he does so. He also keeps dog whistling about Corbyn as a terrorist supporter Pathetic tactics and desperate.
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  719. Blistering? We'll all get blistered at this rate.
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  720. Imagine spending your life skivvying after these people.
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  721.  @9418matthew  Do you know what trading on WTO rules (hard Brexit) would mean for the UK? No single country in the world trades solely under WTO rules because it's like being in the trading 4th division instead of the Premier League which is being part of a large trading block of having deals with them. Under WTO rules the UK would have to set a single tariff the same for all trading partners whereas in the EU we trade tariff free. If we set a tariff that will push the prices of all imports up so the cost of living will go up for everyone. If we set a zero tariff (perfectly possible), imports may become cheaper but we will be importing from countries where workers have no rights and are paid a pittance because they will produce the cheapest goods. This will undermine safety standards and wipe out British industry and farming as they won't be able to compete with such countries, as our workers and animals have rights. Also we'd be charging the EU zero tariffs while they could charge us 40% tariffs, making it uncompetitive for us to export. Most countries, like the USA are going down the protectionist route, protecting their home industries and China and Russia make if difficult to impossible for anyone to export to them. It will be a an economic disaster. Even the economist Patrick Minford, who is pro Brexit and pro using WTO terms, admits it will destroy British industry and agriculture. He does not mind about that. Brtain as a member of the EU currently has over 4000 trade deals with other countries. Those will immediately lapse as soon as we go out on a hard Brexit and Liam Fox only has 4 deals to put in their place. Trade deals usually take years to negotiate because of their size and complexity. There's no way there are not going to be massive consequences with a hard Brexit.
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  722. The most important thing is the ability to exist and exist in a planet that can support existence. There are probably too many of us now, if we all aspire to a highly developed standard of living. If we don't reduce carbon emissions climate change will reduce the populations one way or another.
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  723.  @robinrdale8318  I'm not sure Labour used Whatsapp since government (and presumably government opposition) are not meant to be using Whatsapp at all for government business. Also Labour as opposition would be reactive more than proactive since they didn't have access to the evidence and information that the Tory government had. That's in the nature of being an opposition. They are partly having to second guess.
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  724. Why not take a trip there yourself then?
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  725. If you let it die, it will die.
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  726.  @jabinakhurshid3900  Nature is not deciding though. He is being kept artificially breathing and his organs kept functioning by the use of machinery and drugs.
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  727. Ask for a second opinion.
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  728.  @raymondmajer8748  He's worth more than the Home Secretary. She knows nothing, like many Ministers and relies on someone who does know. Al she does is give orders. She'll be gone in a few years. Experts always get paid more than 'know nothings'.
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  729.  @Storm.Z.4u  Labour are not in government. You have to be in government to make changes. People have to vote you into government.
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  730.  @andywells397  The Tories will finish us all.
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  731. I don't think they'd want his arms around them or find that particularly useful. Perhaps he means armed troops, in the way that Putin has stretched his arms around Ukraine.
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  732. Did Sunak call your mother, Piers, because his advisors told him to?
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  733. Donald only speaks in superlatives. He's a big fan of hyperbole - mostly about himself.
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  734. What kind of suffering? Nothing could be worse than the way the country and its people suffered under the Tories.
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  735. He just casts unfounded slurs and prejudices knowing that the Mayoral election is coming up. It's transparent.
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  736. His supporters won't care.
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  737.  @britishmgtow7251  Google it.
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  738.  @britishmgtow7251  I found this: He (Rashford) was among a myriad of Premier League footballers who donated in total of £4million to help the coronavirus efforts. Footballers are paid a lot but don't forget their careers are usually short.
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  739.  @britishmgtow7251  I found this headline also 'Marcus Rashford Makes Huge Donations To Homeless Charities For Young People'. and this 'Marcus Rashford has issued an update on his partnership with FareShare, revealing he will be doubling his personal donation to its food redistribution project.'
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  740. BBC website says the man was decapitated. Apparently he was a teacher who showed cartoon images of the prophet Muhammed in a school classroom. I guess this is why some fundamentalist attacked him.
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  741. I think the Kinks need an honourable mention.
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  742.  @longdragon3  Immigrants tend to be people with lots of resilience and usually see the opportunities rather than this woman who sees her loss. If you went back to South Asia would you not see elements of the population of your former country who had less resilience or ability to change their lives and were beggars? A single parent working in the UK needs to pay for childcare, which is expensive, or have extended family living nearby who can take care of the children while they work. That's not something everyone has. English people tend to have smaller families than Asian ones and if they've moved around the country for work they may not live anywhere near the family they have. London is an area of opportunity and many people come here for work if they can afford somewhere to live. (23 years ago rents would have been lower than now). Outside of London opportunities may be fewer. This may be a temporary phase she is going through but at the moment so many jobs are being lost because of Covid restrictions and Brexit changes. Or as you would say - excuses, excuses.
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  743.  @jantyszka1036  Most of us care.
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  744. We hear you. It's the politicians who are not listening.
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  745. So the parents have no responsibility for their baby?
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  746.  @compton1808  The video didn't start from the beginning of things then. What sparked the conflict was 1) Israel evicting Palestinian families from East Jerusalem to give the land to J*wish settlers and 2) The Israeli attack on a M*sque inside Israel. Hamas then retaliated but Netanyahu knew those actions would spark conflict. He has been indicted for crimes and is trying to avoid the consequences. Also it's a bit of a David and Goliath affair as Israel has a defence system that takes down most of H*mas's missiles. H*mas does not. H*mas has asked for a cease fire but Israel has refused.
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  747. Snake oil salesman. Taxing the middle class to keep Donald and his rich chums in the style they are accustomed to.
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  748. Too many crises even for the media. They went for the new ones.
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  749. You're sad.
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  750.  @YashKumar-rj5lg  It certainly has been, many times. No one has clean hands.
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  751. They don't believe in women being educated. They like to keep women in subjection and at home. This is a patriarchal religion.
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  752.  @doody244  I think the title Duke of Edinburgh has a sentimental attachment for the Royal family so they will like to control who has it which they can do if it's not hereditary.
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  753. The government are about as useful on this as they were on Brexit negotiations.
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  754. Oh that will solve all our problems. In the case of the Tories 'patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel'. They'd do more for national pride by eliminating corruption in government.
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  755. @SillySausage2024 They may have elderly parents who'll need care or have family members with health issues. Why would we want to meet everyone that public tax funded services are helping?
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  756. How long will Trump continue to deny global warming?
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  757. The working class voted for him. London has some of the poorest areas in the country and also some of the wealthiest. It has a younger population than most areas and consequently a more educated one. Weren't the Tories new ID rules for voters designed to eliminate some Labour voters? Against that background an overall near 4% swing to Labour after 2 terms is a good result. In the end people are judged on their record and their policies. That's one reason why the Tories can't persuade as many people to vote for them now, as their 14 year record in office tells against them.
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  758. We notice shortcomings in our countries and in yours. We are allowed to protest at the former, but no one in Iran is allowed to protest at their country's shortcomings.
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  759. There isn't a Labour government. The Labour Party is in opposition you numpty.
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  760.  @KIWIchix0r  ??? A boar is a male pig. There are no pigs among the images. Angelica Houston is one of the ewes (female sheep).
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  761.  @iaf6563  I don't think she cared in the end whether he shook her hand or not. If you can't see this in a 'normal' context, you must be a Trump supporter who thinks sunshine comes out of his nether regions.
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  762. Last week Trump's aides had to persuade him from bombing Iran - talk about not starting wars!
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  763. Sometimes you don't realise the true size of someone until you see them sitting next to someone else. Taylor Swift looks enormous next to James all the others on the couch when you see the full shot.
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  764. I understand it wasn't all rich people he stole from. The newspaper (Daily Mail) said 'His victims, large and small, included individuals, charities, pension funds and hedge funds' and headlined it 'He stole from the rich. He stole from the poor. He stole from the in-between'.
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  765. Asset stripping of the poor. Asset protection for the better off.
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  766.  @mariontinsley8646  Clearly he didn't trip and fall on his own, you can see clearly what happened in the video unless you need to go to Specsavers..
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  767. Or to put it another way, those who can more afford to pay to contribute more to public services we need.
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  768.  @Nelson_Churchill  Rubbish analogy.
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  769. It sounds like they have been experimented on and who knows whether it's safe.
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  770. How do people like this get to be lawyers? I suppose only someone who was ignorant of the law is likely to represent Trump now.
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  771. The quotation from the film. 'The real danger is that if we hear enough lies then we no longer recognise the truth at all' is still relevant today to Mr Putin, Mr Trump and Boris Johnson.
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  772. Couldn't care less. If you could care less you must care some, to leave room to care less.
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  773. From himself. He's the only one who respects him. He would not know who Nicola Sturgeon was. I bet Nigel Farage fed him those lines.
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  774.  @skootergirl22  America has even worse Covid figures than the UK.
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  775.  @ProblematicBitch  Some people are truly monomaniacs, dragging their obsessions through every subject and comment area in social media.
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  776. I think this was more than lenient on Donald Trump. They didn't report that there wasn't much cheering for his self-serving, self-pitying , rambling diatribe which was very thin on policy.
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  777.  @MegaHELLRAISER01  Why not? They are not attempting to overthrow capitalism, but just to regulate it to make it work more fairly for everyone.
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  778. @Paul G I do know the world very well. I'm not a fantasist or easy prey to conspiracy theories like you. There is no benefit from deceiving people over this. Some people don't want to know or can't handle the truth - that's understood.
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  779. They're fighting like ferrets in a bag now. I guess the most vicious will win and lead them to further destruction.
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  780. It was David Cameron that made the target that obliges Khan to cut pollution but it's the right thing to do anyway and if you cut the congestion charge in central London, good luck with trying to drive anywhere any time soon.
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  781. My husband and I have had all vaccinations. We are the only ones we know who have not had covid, as far as we are aware. I'm not necessarily linking the two things. Just an observation. 2 relatives who had other illnesses were badly affected by Covid. One died and the other had 2 strokes. Both were elderly and both vaccinated as far as I'm aware. When neighbours, husband and wife were both vaccinated for the first time, one had significant side effects and the other did not. No one else I know has had bad side effects from vaccines though it took me a month to recover from the previous Pfizer vaccine. I suffered from fatigue and palpitations for that period and gradually built up some exercise until it went.
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  782. It's Vive La France
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  783. They paid over £200,000,000 to their shareholders, I understand.
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  784. He's always been a remainer but you don't have to be a remainer so see the disaster.
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  785.  @justaghoulintheworld  What has your comment got to do with anything or are you just some random Putin fanicer?
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  786.  @rthelionheart  I know but ideology of a certain type usually goes with selecting ethnic victims.
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  787.  @certi1872  He sounds a bit rough in the voice and lung area.
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  788. One consultant said the managers were more concerned with activity and throughput than with safety, and caesarians were avoided regardless of circumstances of the pregnancies.
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  789. Well he wouldn't have turned down the offer of tests from the EU just because it didn't chime with Brexit ideology.
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  790.  @mattheweades  It's not this year's footage. This year's was at the Cenotaph. The BBC showed last year's footage - an accident they say. In fact they were covering up Boris's blunders this year - going too early and placing the wreath upside down.
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  791.  @stevehardy3680  That was the fault of the police. They were responsible for gathering evidence.
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  792.  @Somerandomnobodyonyoutube  He laughs when he fires people.
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  793.  @thebffs9755  It's interesting that you know so much about brothels, Garry. I wonder where you picked that up and what else you 'picked up' besides.
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  794. Would that be the same in the north west, the north east and Cumbria where it spiked previously? Perhaps they are all taking a leaf out of Dominic Cummings book but I suspect they are just scared of having no money to put food on the table.
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  795. I've been treated by the NHS recently, the NHS was paying anyway but for a PET scan I was referred via the NHS to a private clinic and for an eye test I went to the local NHS hospital but it wasn't NHS staff doing the tests. I could tell by the labels they were wearing.
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  796.  @stephenmurray2851  A nationality is not the same as a racial or ethnic type or a colour. You don't have to be white to have a British passport. In the world of your logic, the the true Brits would be celts. The term Britain comes from the British tribes here first (the Britons) Are you one?
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  797. When people's comments are only about the casting of Queen Margaret, you know that they know nothing about Shakespeare or his plays and in all likelihood they've not watched the full play.
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  798.  @roboss5426  Twitter's not my thing. Maybe yours?
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  799. He was good in Rome as Brutus too.
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  800.  @whitebeard666  You miss the point. It's my loss if they don't move as I've been categorised as 'vulnerable'. I can't afford to get it.
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  801.  @jamescopeland8050  It was nothing to do with a union between Hanover and England. Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch of England, had no surviving children (poor thing lost about 16 of them in her lifetime). There were male heirs but they were Catholic and had already been rejected in favour of Queen Mary and William of Orange, followed by Queen Anne. The nearest relative, who was a Protestant, was a Hanoverian who became George I of Great Britain and Ireland.
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  802.  @andrewcheadle948  The Tories are full of bigots and hard right nutcases.
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  803.  Tom  Don't be silly. Look at the number of excess deaths this year and explain those. My brother in law had Covid and as it can thicken the blood he got a stroke from it. He has had 2 more strokes since having Covid and is probably not going to survive now, but he won't be counted as a Covid related death, if he dies, because 28 days have passed since he got Covid. P.S When our Covid deaths were counted as 45,000 (before they reduced the number to 41,000 after the 28 day rule), the excess deaths figure was 60,000. It must be higher than that now so it seems like Covid cases were undercounted not overcounted and that ties up with the fact that many people dying in care homes were not tested for Covid in the first months of the pandemic. No professional doctor is going to count a road accident as a Covid death. Have some sense.
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  804.  @jcat1507  He thinks he's Assad. Lol.
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  805. The EU are showing the same colours they've always shown. No-one gets free access to the EU market without following the EU market's rules. The UK government was deluding itself in thinking otherwise.
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  806. Even Fox can't stomach the lies.
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  807. Milo Hartley. You don't have to be "attractive" (in your terms) to be raped. Even old ladies get raped and even men get raped.
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  808. You can't turn Britain into Singapore overnight and I'm not sure that's what Brexiters thought they were voting for anyway. The literature put out by the leave movement at the time of the Referendum implied that there would be a soft Brexit. People wanted 'sovereignty' I believe but without damaging trade. I doubt working people were voting for lower protections and fewer rights for workers and massive cuts in public services and more outsourcing and privatisation, but that's what the ERG seem to have in mind. Tories never invest in the kind of industries that can lead to a profitable and competitive economy anyway, like many other countries do. The most they do is a bit of pump priming and then flog off any potentially successful endeavours to the competition, and in fact that what's proposed for the public funded group that developed our vaccines - very short sighted.
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  809. One section of the poor may blame another but it's the government that has led us into this mess. We are the 5th or 6th richest country in the world.
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  810.  @ArtDesignHobby  I was specifically referring to the problems of a pandemic beyond control in Brazil. I don't think all politicians or scientists are corrupt, but certainly Bolsonaro is, and he's also useless and dangerous to the health and welfare of Brazilians and the world.
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  811. Because people who are entitled to vote, voted for her. That's democracy.
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  812.  @TheListOf  He's being denied his medicine to deal with the health issues created by the earlier poisoning attempt, and this is a protest about that. I guess he is prepared to sacrifice himself if necessary to highlight the lack of democracy and corruption in Russia but he won't go without a fight.
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  813.  @iraniandude2899  No one's being hostile. That's Richard Ayoade's comedy style, and the interviewer knows that. They are playing a kind of interview chess.
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  814.  @craigrothwell6144  That would probably rule out 3/4 of the population. Most European countries give some support to families and children, more than the UK.
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  815. Trump is a thin skinned narcissist.
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  816.  @robertlocock5636  But he actually said 'because it's a shithole' meaning the constituency. I know he said that because I heard it.
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  817. How will it be fine? Other countries like the US are going to give us nice trade deals that are to our advantage? I think not. That's not how Trump or other countries behave in the ruthless world of international trade. Meanwhile we have a huge market on our doorstep and we're going to shoot ourselves in the foot when it comes to trade with it? All the Brexiters can say are vague phrases like 'it will be absolutely fine' but with no evidence to back up those statements.
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  818.  @jimborghini2761  It's my opinion - like it or not, but Putin's former close cronies say he won't stop unless someone stands up to him. Trump didn't stand up to him when he was in power and doesn't propose to if he gets re-elected it seems. At least I didn't hear Trump make any such proposals in this interview. He reminds me of Nigel Farage - good at criticising others - excellent in fact, and often clear about what he does not support, but when it comes to what he would do, it's all a load of vague sloganising.
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  819. You can't behold (view) an odour. You smell it. He has a terrible diet. Junk food diet. No wonder he farts a lot.
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  820. Not Arabic. Most will have come from Pakistan or Bangladesh or India, which are on the continent of Asia. Therefore Asians.
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  821. He belongs to the Labour Party. The government is the Conservative party. There's no love lost between them and he was not elected for supporting the government. The guy who lost was the conservative government supporter. Don't comment if you know nothing.
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  822. It did not collapse because it's a strong concrete structure. It's just that something about it wasn't fireproof and aided the spread of fire. Probably the new cladding panels.
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  823. It's Keynesian economics. Perfectly workable.
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  824. Gun violence doesn't only happen in America but more Americans have been killed as a result of gun violence than have been killed in all the wars they have been involved in.
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  825. Perhaps life would be less tough in Cuba if the USA lifted the trade embargo on Cuba. It doesn't help.
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  826. Chechnya is part of Russia.
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  827. I've seen Kagemusha, Ran, Throne of Blood and The Seven Samurai. Great films all. I think Ran and Kagemusha were the most visually beautiful. Kurosawa does battle scenes of rival armies in beautiful colors sweeping down on each other. Quite stunning.
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  828. Free from dictatorship and tyranny and racism which would have been the result of the Nazis taking over. Do you know no history?
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  829. EarthHumans1st When you don't vote you're a nothing as far as politicians are concerned. They don't even consider they need to work to earn your support. There are enough different parties this time to provide a choice. Even if the party you vote for does not win your vote counts in showing the national level of opposition to the status quo. When you don't vote it's a slap in the face for all those people in past generations who struggled and died so that you could be free, and vote. You are much more allowing globalist neocons to dominate by not voting at all. They love it when there's no opposition and people just lie down and give up.
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  830. Your comment should not be addressed to me.I made no racist comment. In response to a comment by Anthony Clifford about Khan declining to provide legal representation to the leader of EDL I was saying that I can understand Khan's reluctance if the EDL guy is a racist.
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  831. I would not mind if the performance was good, after all nationality is not necessarily denoted by skin colour these days. Art and Theatre is all about challenging assumptions and prejudices isn't it?
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  832. He has the kind of memory that wipes itself every 30 seconds. That's how he was programmed. Lol. He thought he would never be called out on his false statements.
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  833. This is not going to get better after Brexit. It's a dress rehearsal
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  834.  @leegsy  Yes his posture when singing meant he was straining his voice. He always had the microphone too low then he would bend down even lower to it so he was straining upwards with his head thrown back - a really odd stance, but he always seemed to do it.
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  835.  @Lisbon6T7  And that other woman MP who spoke saying there was no evidence of him lying. That leaves one unidentified.
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  836. By killing people unnecessarily?
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  837. It's not her that needs to 'save face'. She has already said it's more important for her to stand for the US constitution that to win the primary. However she will give it her best shot.
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  838. In one series (series 1?), a girl blew something similar at a horse Tommy was riding. I think that was for luck. I doubt this one was for luck.
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  839. I never had Covid until Jan 2023. Before that I had all my vaccines (I have co-morbidities and I'm closer to 70 than 60) and was careful to use masks and keep social distance though that lapsed a bit over time as I never seemed to catch it. I had to go to a funeral of a close family member in January and there were lots of close relatives there hugging each other, none wearing masks, except me, so I took mine off. I stayed for 3 days and came down with Covid the day after I returned. It wasn't too bad, mainly tiredness and brain fog. It had cleared up by 10 days. Before the funeral I had had a bad cold which was worse than the Covid and took a while to clear up. It's good to know I likely have good immunity to Covid now. Having watched your videos I probably won't have any more vaccinations in future unless a deadly one arrives.
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  840. It surprises me that a constituency which has been green for a while now has the second worst recycling rate. Who is holding them accountable?
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  841.  @brewed_for_success  Bot?
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  842. Check out his voting record before coming to a conclusion.
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  843. The turnaround is getting faster each time. What they'll need soon is a revolving door to No 10.
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  844. Judges are starting to block Musk's actions but they are happening so fast it's hard to keep up.
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  845. Why not have done with it and call it 'The Farage Party'?
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  846.  @john.highheels.3244  I'm not much in the habit of talking to racists.
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  847. Doesn't stop Trump who commented on the UK P.M's dealings with the EU and said she should have followed his advice. What business is it of his?
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  848.  @christophermccall7202  What is your evidence? This is mine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfv9zsKJquk&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=15&t=0s and it spreads pretty easily. It's only been held in check by lockdown and social distancing.
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  849. Did you do any research before making this video? You haven't mentioned that there is a US embargo on Cuba and that has been there for decades so it's hard for them to buy raw materials or engage in normal trade.
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  850. I don't know what she was saying most of the time but at the end she seemed to say she had to feed her family. She could have been killed though.
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  851. @Terri Mansfield There is a later video where he says he has a flat and a son so his life did improve.
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  852. Are you talking about Putin again? O no, he's avoided conviction hasn't he?
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  853. Iambic
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  854. *never have not never of (Surely he would know the difference between a verb and a preposition.)
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  855. He wanted to make it look worse. I'm sure he thinks it makes him look cute and appealing to women.
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  856. Can't stand his patronising drawl.
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  857.  @melesmeles5080  There's nothing like a smooth deceiver to make you feel good.
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  858. The spin begins as 100 more licences were granted to French fishermen.
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  859.  @tpower1912  Some have left. Some have set up headquarters in the EU. You may find others leave in the new year when we come off the parallel system with the eU and experience a full no deal Brexit (unless Boris get a deal at the last minute but if it was going to happen I think it would have happened by now).
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  860. He really doesn't understand the science, and he must have had weeks and weeks of advisers trying to explain to him.
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  861. Apparently the Horizon system was not an accounting system but a database which is one of the reasons for some of its problems. It wasn't a fit for purpose system and Fujitsu never consulted end users in creating the system. The Post Office should have insisted on that. At some point she knew that the Horizon system had flaws because the Post Office itself hired 'Second Sight' , in July 2012, to look into it and then sacked them when they reported the flaws. The P.O. didn't want to know. She didn't want to know.
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  862.  @therb6365  I understand the English. I don't understand why you would address that comment to me. What untruth have I stated? I'm not American so I don't vote for the blues. (There's no apostrophe in blues, so it seems it's you that can't write). You vote for exploitation then. You are one of those who love being exploited or love exploiting others.
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  863. The Fairy Godmother is granting wishes. Whatever you wish for will be delivered without knowledge effort or cost. Simples.
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  864. Mr Beat. She doesn't want to get into his personal life, but she's happy for Trump to get into other people's personal lives.
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  865. It's the way out of lockdown that's why.
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  866. They'd be given a fair trial at least, not a beating like this and a predetermined verdict. Where would you rather face trial for anything, Russia or the UK?
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  867. I'm sorry but he's not bright enough to be leader. He once complained about some legislation that he himself had previously approved when he was a Secretary of State. It was legislation from his own department.
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  868. Was the electoral fraud you witnessed committed by more than one party?
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  869. Privatise the BBC and watch the crap it turns into just like every other privatised public service.
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  870. Medics are constantly coming close to patients in order to treat them. The general public does not generally do that as long as they are keeping 2m distance from people not in their own household.
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  871. International capitalism as the international banking crisis was caused by lack of effective regulation. In fact Sunak played a part in that banking collapse as he worked for a hedge fund at the time and they took over a failing Dutch bank, Amro I believe it was called, and they sold it to the Royal Bank of Scotland loading it with unsustainable subprime mortgage debt (originating in the USA). RBS collapsed because of that, and had to be bailed out by the UK government along with Northern Rock and the government also took a share in Nat West. Sunak and his fellow Hedge funders made millions out of that, profiting at the expense of the UK economy. Even when the Tories were negotiating Brexit some of the Hedge funders in the party were profiting from shorting the UK economy (betting that it would worsen). There's a conflict of interest for you.
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  872. It was the Tories that concerned themselves with plastic bollards when they ran out of ideas and here is bankrupt Boris doing it again. Remember John Major's introduction of a 'Traffic Cones Hotline'?
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  873. Do some research. It takes time (weeks) for a whole age group to be vaccinated. Then it takes about 10 days after vaccination for antibodies to start being produced and maximum protection is not achieved until 10 days after the second dose is given and the second dose is given12 weeks after the first. Do the maths!
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  874. So he doesn't even care about the world his children or grandchildren will face. Maybe he figures they will be rich enough to buy themselves out of any problems - more likely he hasn't thought about it at all.
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  875.  @Zoomer_Analysis  So is that why they win landslide elections?
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  876. Only if he wears high heels
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  877. Speak for yourself, not for others. Most Brits are not fascists or bigots.
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  878. That would resolve Brexit but stir up war in the North again. However, just like Scotland and Wales, the North could vote to rejoin the rest of Ireland. That's provided for in The Good Friday Agreement.
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  879. Or keep it switched off in a lead box?
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  880. David Walliams is a comedian. That was an act. He wasn't serious.
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  881. I sat next to him on the bus a couple of weeks ago. I didn't let on that I knew who he was as he seems a private type in real life.
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  882. I've just realised he was kicked out for making an agreement with Sinn Fein so the government in NI could get going again. The DUP does not like to make agreements with anyone. Their favourite word is Noooooooooo! (said loudly)
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  883. Every British city has a cathedral. One of the qualifications to be a city is to have a cathedral. The smallest cathedral city in Britain is St David's in west Wales.
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  884.  @casperslaststandme5991  How useless? Labour is not in power. Conservatives are. You can't implement your policies when you are not in power but the party in power, in government, should be expected to be able to or have a workable plan.
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  885. Cute? No, these poor dogs are bred so that they have difficulty breathing and their faces are not long enough for their tongues. Such breeding is cruel.
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  886.  @christtheking4512  She should not go back to work with symptoms.
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  887. No. It shows how little you understand the democratic system. It's important to have an opposition in a democracy, otherwise we'd be in a one party dictatorship but no one will work without pay if they have a choice. There are a lot fewer of them though.
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  888. It's not canned laughter though. It's filmed in front of a live studio audience.
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  889. It amazes me how any doctor can think or have thought that the Conservatives care about public services. Congratulations to him on finally connecting with reality.
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  890.  @DrBox88  A bit like Kings in Edward's and all of the Kings at this time. No freedom or democracy then. Only freedom for nobles to live off the peasants backs, lop off peasants' ears, invade and seize other people's lands, assert their 'droit de seigneur'.
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  891. The BBC is the medium here. The content belongs to the scientists. If you've given up on science, good luck next time you are ill. (I know someone who looks remarkably like this model, but with shorter hair and white skin).
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  892. Shakespeare was never an accurate source of history. As a dramatist he was more interested in the drama of his stories.
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  893. Says someone who has no idea what real slavery is.
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  894.  @mikhailkrasnopolskiy2001  The ones being attacked are not in the Jewish state, they are in Gaza, a 20 mile strip where everything is controlled by Israel and the Gazans have no democratic control over that. Also Israel recently declared itself a Jewish state which makes non-Jews non citizens. What rights do they have now?
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  895. So his advisory council for his economic policies are all from the private finance and banking sector. Mmm, I wonder in whose interests they will be advising.
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  896.  @Inaflap  And spaffing the economy up the wall.
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  897. I think it's about widening the audience for plays like this, not just in Britain but internationally (in the US for instance). It's played more as a drama than a strict history. If it was a history programme I'm sure they wouldn't be so flexible with the casting.
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  898.  Cookie Monster  I don't think he's saying any of that. He's trying to speak to say 'Get off my neck, Trump'.
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  899.  @uniquevideosUk  And what else do you know about her? If she was a Trump supporter you can say she is right wing, anti-democratic and lacking judgement.
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  900. People who let the virus rip without a thought for the people?
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  901.  @Rosskles  I don't think they stopped to think at all. The hostages were carrying white flags. One had red hair. Even the IDF admitted it was against the rules of engagement.
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  902. She's been a Secretary of State twice and a Minister once. She's been a nuisance always.
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  903.  @stephfoxwell4620  There's hardly any merit in the whole of the Tory party.
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  904. And David Cameron set the requirement to cut pollution.
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  905. Oh leave him alone, you big bully.
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  906. In many countries you only need to say something critical of politicians to land you in prison or to be a member of a family of an opposition politician.
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  907. The government can't pretend there's not a crisis when it's obvious to people that there is a crisis. Only the government never seems to be able to see the train coming down the track.
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  908. If you look at the comments on youtube on sites covering any black British politicians or even black people in general you'll find plenty of racist comments.
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  909. What I find about Petersen is that he seems to justify the status quo whether he's doing it intentionally or not.
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  910. Why, Because it's not what you want to hear?
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  911. He may have been answering a specific question about it, but he does seem detached from the world that everyone else lives in.
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  912. Handing the wheel to a maniac or a child.
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  913.  @BalkanMode  It doesn't matter in drama unless the role specifically requires a certain race because the story is about racism.
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  914. Let them enjoy their achievements. Why not? Plenty of smirks in the previous government with little achieved in 14 years.
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  915. Domestic cats live longer than wild ones.
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  916.  @evertonfrancis640  Undoubtedly, and it's also good not to allow the gap between rich and poor to keep widening. The play was a satire, by the way, in case anyone thinks the words were in support of the 7%.
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  917. It's not a 99% survival rate. You haven't been looking at the stats. You have to be concerned if you are 45 or over or have chronic illnesses or are disabled or have a weak immune system.
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  918. 'A poor country with a few rich people', that's one of the definitions of a third world country.
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  919. She's a Trump supporter.
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  920. One problem in the broadcasting of this is that some of the media, particularly print media, are run by bosses who regularly insult their staff and think this is normal behaviour.
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  921. One time when Harry was drunk and exiting a club, he appeared in a photo looking rather enraged and I noticed how very like his grandfather Prince Philip he looked. He's definitely from Charles's line
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  922. @Fake News Because he can. He doesn't tolerate opposition.
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  923. *has resigned
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  924. They bought a turkey....from Turkey.
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  925. But she can't understand why the government went for Chinese overpriced ventilators that were poor quality and didn't last. Sounds like incompetence to me at the very least.
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  926. I think JRM is an actual conservative, heaven help us, but we did get a hard Brexit. It's just that many people who voted for Brexit didn't know what they were going to get because they didn't bother to do any research beforehand and many still don't understand Brexit.
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  927.  @Gibson1976uk  How long after the vaccine did that person die? It takes 3 weeks after the vaccine for immunity to be created and full immunity isn't created until after the second dose, so the vaccine would not protect someone who already had Covid when they were vaccinated or who caught it within 3 weeks of being vaccinated with the first dose.
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  928. On contracts he seemed to take the view that governments should be able to ignore the rules when there is an emergency. The rules are there to ensure good value and protect against corruption. There is usually a procedure for fast track contracts in emergency, and of the £37bn contracts that the government handed to friends and supporters, without competitive tendering, the only legal requirement on them was to publish the contracts afterwards for the public to see, but the government has not done that. Also there's usually a list kept of approved contractors who are already checked according to various criteria before going on the list. They should have picked contractors from the approved list if they were not going to have competitive tendering, so I disagree with Cummings' attitude there that in an emergency you just throw the rules out of the window. Part of the problem is the huge cuts the government made to civil servants since 2010. There's no spare capacity now. The Department of Health and Social Care is only about 2000 strong in terms of permanent staff (civil servants) and with Covid and Brexit on top of the day job in the same year they would be overloaded. It's a false economy anyway because the government now deals with demands it can't manage by bringing in expensive consultants on separate contracts.
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  929. He's really Kermit the frog gone bad.
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  930. You are guilty of casting blame in the wrong direction. (Lazy thinking?) I think you'll find the biggest whammies for London's economy are Covid 19 and Brexit, none of which he had control over.
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  931. It's pass the parcel. They are taking turns at this and know little more than what they are reading out.
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  932. *'wasn't granted the privacy' not 'wasn't spared the privacy'. It was the public execution he wasn't spared.
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  933. So, you'll be giving the Tories a better chance. You obviously haven't suffered enough under them.
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  934. 16 times in a single interview (I counted).
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  935. What evidence do you have of positive discrimination? All she said was that black people suffer racism more often than some other groups which is obvious because they have a visible difference and the backgrounds of other groups would not be known unless they chose to reveal it. If being a terrible MP was a reason for ejecting her, she's certainly no worse than all the terrible MPs in the Tory government. There's no reason to believe that she was a terrible constituency MP and it's for the local party and her constituents to decide who they want to represent them. People don't like outsider clones being parachuted in at the last minute by the party leadership.
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  936.  @ltmund  It's not an empire though, Empires are created by conquest. The EU is a voluntary economic and self-protective bloc.
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  937.  @mattsmith1157  At least they spent the money propping up the banks to prevent a crisis of confidence and collapse in the banks with a loss of people's savings and as it was a world international banking crisis, Brown persuaded other countries to do the same. A collapse of the capitalist finance systems leading to collapses in world economies would have been the alternative. Would that have been better for people? The cause of the problem was not Labour but the sharing of unsustainable sub-prime mortgage debts by the banking system, debts that first began in the financial markets in the USA. Labour also spent a lot on the NHS getting waiting lists down to the lowest ever levels.
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  938.  @jangoslin8258  Yes and Trump certainly has responsibility. He contributed to its massive deficit whereas Biden has reduced it. Trump also ensured more tax leniency for the wealthy. There are at least 30 election promises that Trump broke.
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  939.  @amethystfeathers7324  Yes but he was also obliged to provide any documents that might undermine his own case. Maybe he had some he didn't want to disclose. This may give heart to the defendants in other cases that he is pursuing that the same thing might happen in their cases.
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  940. Hello Russian bot.
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  941. I'm not a Tory but he is the most sensible Tory I've heard.
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  942. m Danish Just innocent fun, you begrudger.
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  943. @YO YO MOFO After I heard the first gunshot before I saw them tussling and the man he was tussling with also had a gun which the jogger was trying to grab. Looks like the jogger was acting in self defence to me -just trying to protect himself from being shot. Here's the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzPL82QxCks
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  944. Oh look a Covid party.
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  945. He has two.
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  946. It's Christmas in the calendar of the Russian orthodox Trust. He wants to keep the church on side.
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  947. Never let the Donald wash your brains.
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  948.  @ruthhadfield9726  She would drop you in the stew if it earned her some money.
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  949.  @bonjovinovi3473  Unless it's emergency treatment tourists will be liable to pay, unless there's a reciprocal agreement between their country of origin and the UK. Just like Brits can get free treatment, if needed, while visiting EU countries because of reciprocal agreements, which may not stay in place after Brexit, by the way. Who knows?
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  950. So are civilians it seems, and democratically elected leaders.
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  951.  @missmerrily4830  Try research, information, knowledge of policy proposals, integrity and intelligence of candidates, even voting records.
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  952. Trump would just say 'They're losers'.
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  953.  @dianalondono5599  Helena was good. She had Margaret's spontaneity, imperiousness and gave off the danger signals that you'd never know what she might do or say or the mood she might be in. She could do the extrovert highs and the lows. She could show the hurt and also show that she was hiding the hurt at times. I loved the scenes where sang and flirted with President Johnson, and won him over.
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  954.  @mrmajestic7391  Why does she? Didn't the corruption of the Tories make you heave?
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  955. @Ken Fullman Actually the NI's trade is doing better than the rest of the UK because, under the NI protocol, they are free to trade goods with the ROI which is in the EU, so they have alternative sourcing. It is the UK that is suffering trade wise from the NI protocol but then Boris signed up to the NI protocol so that was his choice in order to get a withdrawal agreement.
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  956. At our expense though and with probably doing just as little. The Lords can get their daily expenses without doing any work. They can just turn up and sign on to get expenses.
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  957. It was probably a way to get her to the bedroom. He certainly found times for lots of affairs. Trump finds time for lots of golf. Presidents do as they please to a certain extent.
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  958.  @AimaginationCreations  Don't be silly.
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  959. The EU is very capitalist. It works against public ownership of companies. Everything is under pressure to be out out to tender and privatised.
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  960. 'Your descendants include'..... Lol. You mean 'ancestors'.
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  961. I know someone who knew Dominic Raab and reckons he's not well liked so unlikely to win. He certainly seems pleased with himself though.
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  962. Well the politicians never prepared plans for a pandemic as recommended in various advance reports to them which they completely ignored. There are situations that would overwhelm any health service no matter how good they were. In fact most health services around the world have experienced these pressures and many have not coped well. So I find this sniping, cynicism and whingeing, appalling. You don't know how lucky you are. Try living where the health services are truly overwhelmed.
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  963. Interesting is not a word I'd choose. Scary is more like it
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  964. Shakespeare never portrayed history as accurately as possible. This is drama not history.
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  965. their. I read a report somewhere that the pups were fighting and that the man advised the grandmother to separate them with a broom and that's when the dogs attacked her. I can't confirm this though as I can't now remember where I read it.
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  966. I can't tell if you are an insect or a pest gladifly
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  967. He took a wrong turning. He wasn't going the shortest route. It was very hot and dark clothes absorb heat rather than reflecting it. He was said not to be feeling well when he set out. He probably was already suffering from heatstroke, He had no phone with him so could not call for help.
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  968.  Kaleem Akbar  That's what Trumpists say even when they are dying from it in hospitals. Sad really.
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  969.  @yooo711  But are all the survivors back to normal? This disease can cause longer term problems and sometimes permanent damage . Also it seems that people can get it more than once, so unless there's an effective vaccine, if it doesn't damage people the first time around it could infect and damage them later in their lives. At present in the USA there have been 16.5 million cases and over 300,000 deaths. That's a lot of deaths, regardless of percentage terms but it's closer to 2% of cases. 2% of the whole population if the infection spread to everyone, would be about 6.6 million deaths.6.6 million is not to be dismissed as 'bullshit'
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  970. And the government was clueless from then on.
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  971. No. If people vote to boil their own heads, politicians are sensible enough to try and persuade them otherwise.
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  972. That means almost no rights for women.
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  973.  Pudgee Monkey  Anyone would be better than Trump.
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  974. Samuel Johnson said 'patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel' by which I'm sure he meant that those who most claim to be 'patriotic' often aren't, but are trying to cover up their dishonest unscrupulous nature. Similarly Oscar Wilde said 'patriotism is the virtue of the vicious'.
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  975. Extracting money with menaces. Isn't that the definition of extortion?.
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  976.  @mickeypopa  I don't understand your catholic reference. Before the war about one third of Germans were catholics and 2 thirds were protestant. 'From 1940, the Nazis gathered priest-dissidents in dedicated clergy barracks at Dachau, where (95%) of its 2,720 inmates were Catholic (mostly Poles, and 411 Germans), 1,034 were murdered there.' Hitler and his senior henchmen were not particularly religious.
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  977. So' ignorance is bliss'? 'Shoot the messenger' etc? Only India and Brazil have higher daily case numbers than the UK and that's before we drop all restrictions.
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  978. He's banking on Truss being the winner so he'll get a plum job out of this.
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  979. He doesn't think the establishment exists as they knew it, because he's now part of it or used to rubbing shoulders with them.
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  980.  @DW14974  My brother in law is currently dying because he got this 'mild cold'.
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  981.  @bigbig83uk  And your scientific and medical qualifications are?
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  982.  @seanmarks6304  You missed her biblical joke.
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  983. This reminds me of the novel 1984 where history is regularly wiped and replaced with the latest story.
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  984. That's right. He he's not meant to be a cartoon goodie or baddie but a complex man like many others.
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  985. The Tories don't even need to do it in trade talks. They can have a secret deal on the side. They are hardly going to state their aims openly in government records. People don't always understand what privatisation consists of. They assume a wholesale sell off of the NHS. What is happening already is a gradual sell off of health services. 26% of the health budget already goes to private firms. A lot of this is concealed by the fact that the money is first passed through the middlemen of voluntary organisations and local authorities who pass it straight on to private companies. Because the former are involved the government counts it as funding public services. More of this is likely to happen if we hard Brexit and want a deal with the USA. Also US drug firms will want to charge the NHS more for drugs. The document is coded and exploratory. A key thing is it's not putting cards on the table and saying no to more sell off of health services and no to increasing the access of American health companies and drug companies.
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  986. And plenty of people have plenty of shit on Trump. Poor Trump doesn't understand that judges are professionals who follow the law not the dictat of Trump, and frankly not the loony reasoning of Trump. Trump also doesn't seem to realise how much he condemns himself out of his own mouth. He doesn't care about or even understand the law at all. He thinks the whole world works according to deals and force and he frequently fails to pay his lawyers.
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  987. The BBC covers a wide range of news. Just click on the regional tabs for news in your area or region.
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  988.  @talboyovGY  I think the final aim would have been to change the name to World Super League (of soccer) and move it to be based in the USA and drop the offside rule to make it more 'entertaining'. Celebrity performances and cheerleaders would be used to create an artificial 'atmosphere' and replace genuine spontaneous response from fans.
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  989. Even now building regulations allow for the building of such blocks with only one staircase for escape. It did have alarms but they weren't loud. The residents had been complaining for years to the council about safety issues and they were ignored. The Inquiry has been hearing evidence that indicates that this type of cladding was falsely claimed to have passed fire safety tests or tests were manipulated to ensure a 'pass'. There was a whole chain of failures presided over by this Tory government and Tory council that put profits above safety.
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  990.  @4nciite  It was night time. some people may have been asleep and the alarms were no good. The fire spread quickly. Tower blocks are meant to be designed so that a fire in a flat is contained within the flat for a long time. Maybe when they realised they thought it would be put out. There's only one staircase in that block and if the fire or smoke spread to that people could be running into fire. When they rang the emergency services they were told to stay put.
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  991.  @xagtly  Putin would have done it anyway and probably earlier if Trump had been re-elected as Trump would not have stopped him. Some people think Putin is now displaying physical symptoms of a terminal illness. I think Ukraine was on his bucket list. He wants to leave some historic legacy.
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  992. Mark Devlin I think it's mostly desired to avoid any hassle in travel arrangements after Brexit e.g. so they won't have to apply for a visa to visit Europe, but why refer to them as British? According to Irish citizenship law, anyone with an Irish parent or grandparent is considered to be an Irish citizen. I'm sure there are many more "Irish citizens" outside of Ireland than within it.
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  993. +Jillyy *boring
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  994. We don't want guns around thank you with all the problems that causes in the USA. Plenty of freedom of speech just not hate speech that advocates violence against others.
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  995. What about all the kids that accidentally shoot themselves or a parent or sibling? All avoidable deaths.
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  996. +London Para She starts to speak London slang in a Shakespearian way - so when he threatens to fail her she starts saying "Am'st I bothered (pronouncing all the syllables in bothered -meaning Am I bothered?) In other words she is not worried by his threat. Is this the bothered face thou sees before thee? Looketh at my face" etc etc
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  997. Conservatives' seat numbers would have been even lower is if wasn't for the fact that they picked up about 13 seats in Scotland as a result of a Scottish voter protest vote against the SNP (Scottish National Party) who wanted to hold a second independence referendum (Indyref2) which many people didn't want so soon after Indyref1.
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  998. Guns Galore Records Charming!
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  999. PrincessRandomgirl33 No it does not mean that. It means she's not bothered (in other words she does not care).
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  1000. Humour is part of the British character. Someone without a sense of humour would be more easily put down. Humour is often a way of making points more effectively. The British Parliament never engages in physical fights unlike some parliaments in other parts of the world.
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  1001. Sounds like a description of Boris. Takes one to know one.
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  1002. He says the H of L has resisted the temptation to vote down government policy for over 100 years. That just goes to show how bad and shambolic this government is, that the H of L felt they had to act in this way.
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  1003. And they are not just oligarchs but also criminals.
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  1004. Much of the humour is ironical if you know any of Shakespeare's work or studied it at school or know anything about the history. It's not meant to be belly laugh slapstick, and maybe some of it does not connect with people who know little about Shakespeare or don't enjoy his work.
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  1005. 'You take the high road and I'll take the low road.' It's a line from a famous Scottish song.
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  1006. KC Miles.One historical description I read about Margaret was that her skin was quite tanned. She came from the South of France where it's hot. Also Okonedo does not look her age. She looks much younger.
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  1007. It's recorded in front of a live audience.
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  1008. HenrySims. Ha! Ha! Pardon me.
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  1009. If the guy's a racist I can understand his reluctance.
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  1010. tubbyrainbow111. Not a classy comment from you though.
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  1011. FO can mean Foreign Office or F***K Off. FFS she says means fine foreign secretary. It can also mean For F***k's Sake - a term of exasperation
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  1012. Well it wasn't over for Trump no matter what was thrown at him.
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  1013. I remember Michael Gove saying 'Britain's had enough of experts' in the run up to the Brexit vote. The damage from a hard Brexit will follow hot on the heels of this pandemic as it hopefully subsides by the end of the year.
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  1014. Nothing is risk free in life and no medicine or vaccine is totally risk free. Covid 19 is much more of a risk than the vaccination though.
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  1015. Protesters gifting each other Covid to take home with them. How nice!
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  1016. It's remuneration and not renumeration.
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  1017. No. We like to live and we like our children to live. London is not a cut through for the rat race.
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  1018.  @deanalford8417  Why don't you ask why the government denies having involvement even though they are involved and it's negative, not mediating at all. The employers would settle but they are prevented by the government.
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  1019. Why do the obscenely wealthy need ever more riches? What's the matter with them?
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  1020. Says the uneducated man.
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  1021. Why consent should be needed I don't know. These are anonymous statistics. As far as I know, consent is not required for inclusion in any other form of anonymous statistics. ONS would be out of business if consent was required.
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  1022.  @johntowers1213  Where are all these British citizens rushing to fill the vacancies left in the NHS, social care, the leisure industry, the farming industry and truck driving industry?
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  1023. I remember when Trump said he could shoot someone in the street and he still wouldn't lose popularity.
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  1024. Those things happen in war and end when war ends, but the Taliban's oppression of women doesn't end with peace and will never end it seems.
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  1025.  @Gabriel-se9el  Great music, music festivals, fashion, jobs were easy to get and easy to change. Wages were not confined to the minimum level. Foreign travel and foreign holidays were more affordable. Students could get grants to study, rates of social mobility were better. Promotion was easier. England won the world cup. The quality of TV was excellent.
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  1026. I would like to see a video on why teeth have not evolved to last humans a lifetime without a lot of care, or is it just because lifespans were shorter and diets different for most of human history? Has anyone done any studies on the history of human teeth? How did people live with pain like toothache or any other injury pain, in the past?
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  1027.  @inevski  So was Bojo qualified to run the country with his Classics degree? The Eton crowd seem to have made a pig's ear of the task. As for avarice, I see no evidence of that but plenty in the ex Tory government.
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  1028.  @portman8909  You can eat food high in fat, sugar and calories. without being 'well fed'. Such food is cheap but not nutritious and is likely to increase weight. Lack of exercise is a problem. In the cold people will not exercise as much or if all their energies are focused on their kids and work, whether in the home or the workplace. They may not find time or have been out of the habit for too long.
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  1029. You still have a hopeless government.
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  1030. Whenever Trump was given information, he didn't act on it in a timely manner. This is the pot calling the kettle black.
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  1031. You know he's lying when he says Trump is 150% supportive of the military, since 150% is an impossibility.
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  1032.  @john.highheels.3244  Yes, Unfortunately I do know what you mean. Are you a Londoner? I doubt it. More likely from the backwoods.
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  1033.  @a.brekkan4965  If you scrub it away without dealing with the underlying causes, it will keep coming back.
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  1034. The police officer did not know who was in the car when he shot him though.
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  1035.  @saveourfigs  So they produce the very behaviour that they fear - abandonment. Can they never recognise themselves in these professional diagnoses of themselves and learn from it?
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  1036.  @nooa69  Possibly but I'm old enough not to worry about that. According to the stats, I'd be someone the virus would likely have killed, the Delta virus anyway. There are no totally risk free options in life.
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  1037.  @jennysaranac4454  Statistically vaccines have reduced the severity of the disease, reduced hospitalisations and deaths and reduced transmission. No vaccine or measure is 100% effective but a combination of measures including vaccination, hand washing, social distancing, and mask wearing all combine to reduce risks as best we can. I think with vaccines people need to weigh up their own risks and make their own decisions but based on the best and most reliable information they can get. The Omicron variant is considered to be milder than previous variants so I can understand that young healthy people might be willing to risk the disease more than the vaccine.
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  1038. Not that much of an ordeal. He didn't turn up to any of the hearings to explain himself.
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  1039. That's for the investigators to determine, not you. Innocent until proven guilty is the legal position but I dare say the Tories would want to do away with that now.
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  1040. *losing
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  1041. Evil etc. You do realise Shakespeare plays have been cast with all women, all men, transposed into modern settings, like Richard III done as a Nazi type dictator, and there has already been an all black Hamlet. Both Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles played Othello, who is a black character. One of the reasons Shakespeare plays remain popular and relevant is that they speak to very human issues and to all times. The answer for those who don't like the casting is not to watch it, but hey, this version's proved popular. Here's are clips from a modern/traditional style TV series about Shakespeare's life shown not long ago on US TV (TNT channel), (the music is not from the show) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MCwIRarv0Q
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  1042. Bernie Sanders made a mistake in calling himself a socialist. Though he has some socialist ideas, he's really in essence a social democrat, which is common all over Europe. Social democrats don't seek to abolish capitalism but to make it work more fairly for all.
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  1043. Underestimated. Also not counted are people who died at home from it.
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  1044. If you read informative news sites, you'd see that the government has given itself the power to force people to isolate if they have the Coronavirus or even they've come from a country which is of concern. However if a lot of people refuse to isolate, you wonder whether there would be the resources to take action on them.
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  1045. Try asking all the parents in that situation who nevertheless stuck by the rules - his rules. Cummings and his wife had relatives in London also, apparently.
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  1046.  @steveinjava  Lol. I think Sunak would be ok as long as any foreigners were rich ones.
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  1047. Remember that's a story. It isn't going to happen with the EU.
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  1048. By paying the agency staff less and maybe no sick pay, no pension rights, no paid holidays, no promotion or career path, etc etc. I think this is probably breaking UK employment law though.
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  1049. Including those that can't spell his name
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  1050. Older people at least.
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  1051. The housing problem may be difficult but the government have never made an effort on this. Boris may say he wants to get people on benefits the opportunity to buy houses but that's blather. It's not going to happen unless there are lending institutions willing to lend to those people and I can't imagine that they will. Nigel is always good on negatives but he never proposes any positive solutions.
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  1052.  @ben31uk  What will happen is that everyone who watches crap will be fed more of the same in 'recommended' feeds and will be forced to have their viewing interrupted by adverts unless they pay not to. Everything is paid for one way or another. There's no such thing as a free service or a free lunch. Your every response to what you watch, in future, will be fed into some database and sold to some marketing companies so they can better target you with more crap and fake news.
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  1053.  ms evon  Maybe the one pulling him away was higher rank and he didn't feel he had a choice.
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  1054.  @user-nj6us2kw4j Good luck to them. As most of their country is now a hell hole thanks to Israel, I don't begrudge people finding happiness if they can, where they can. It's therapy and you know, eating is normal. People need to do it though the Israelis are doing their best to stop them.
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  1055. Left of centre Bercow. Do get things in proportion, man!
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  1056.  @tinabrown4533  It comes from his mother via the Spencers and his Uncle Earl Spencer has red hair.
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  1057.  @Rakkeyal  Me too. I've hardly recognise my old comments. It's as if they were written by someone else - someone more intelligent than me.
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  1058. It's a clickbait title
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  1059. So how are they making money by having to spend billions propping up the economy?
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  1060. Why? There's room for both. Diane Abbot has a large majority in her constituency which is a strong endorsement.
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  1061.  @mirrensunderland3316  That was his wife he cheated on.
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  1062.  @multifandom2882  I think she is just trolling.
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  1063. He could have just applied for another one. In those days insurance cards only lasted about a year anyway. You filled them with stamps and sent them into the National Insurance Office to be put on your NI record. He would have lost a year's worth of stamps at most. Even if he didn't know his national insurance number, he could have requested it again if he sent in his personal details. He could even have paid voluntary contributions for that period or complained to a NI office who would have sent an NI inspector to his employer to investigate. It's like he was weirdly fixated over it, at the same time as being very impractical. Perhaps there was some other aspect that bothered him about it, but I've never seen an explanation.
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  1064. A whistleblower on these appalling people who make it impossible for those trying to deliver for them.
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  1065. If you are so pro England, why are you named after a German industrialist who supported the Nazis? It seems to me that you are a troll egging on England's destruction.
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  1066. British businesses that trade mostly with Europe are already leaving or planning to leave the UK. The USA is thinking of pulling out of the WTO so may well impose its own tarriffs on external businesses selling to the USA including the UK.
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  1067. Because the HMRC cleared her and so did the police. Frankly even if she was guilty the issue is out of date for HMRC action since they don't pursue any case more than 7 years old, which the Tories well knew, but they wanted to throw some dirt for headline and smearing purposes in advance of the election. They are also all terrible snobs and frightened of a working class woman with any real power. The police also say there's no action for them. In any case they don't deal with tax issues. That's a matter for HMRC.
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  1068.  @adammoss5284  And no rules for the Tories squandering public billions on ineffective contracts with their cronies and supporters.
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  1069. They would not have been accepted on the planes if they were undocumented and since they have worked with British troops, I think it's clear where they stand.
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  1070. So many poor people is a shame to a country that's not poor.
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  1071.  @bobbyxdazzler  There's apparently some DCMS guidance for musicians in the event of a no deal Brexit. I have found these though and there are plenty of others in this vein. https://www.nme.com/features/how-brexit-will-screw-over-british-touring-artists-2604516 https://www.musiciansunion.org.uk/brexit
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  1072. She's asking their personal opinions so that she can later say X has this or that ideology and his views are biased, if she doesn't agree with them.
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  1073. I hope not. My asthma has improved now. I don't want to go back to worse health.
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  1074. Peter Hitchens is a self admitted controversialist. He earns his living by saying the opposite to what most people say or agreed wisdom. It keeps him in demand and in the public eye, but on this issue his views are dangerous. You can't tackle a virus 'with proportion'. A virus doesn't understand or respect 'proportion'. Anyone who doesn't believe that lockdown is necessary should watch this video about the Spanish flu in 1918. If you thought this pandemic was bad, imagine undergoing worse, with less precaution, and trying to fight a war at the same time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDY5COg2P2c&list=LLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=2&t=0s
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  1075. If you don't use it you'll lose it and all that will be left is online shopping and high streets will be ghost towns.
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  1076. Trump is just trying to divert blame onto the WHO because he took no action in January and February to prepare for the Covid 19 spreading to the USA when it was clear from all news reports and information from China how serious this was. His classic tactic is to find someone else to blame but he is President of the USA not Xi Jinping.
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  1077. He also wants to fix some housing scams related to leasehold property. I saw a video of him talking about that.
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  1078. Sukondese nutz He's never claimed to be working class but he's not 'loaded' compared to Tories. He has a good salary as leader of the opposition and he owns a relatively modest house in London -granted houses in London cost a lot, but that's true for every house owner in London. His father was an electrical engineer and his mother was a maths teacher. He's earned a lot over the years (having lived so long) but the main thing is he doesn't spend a lot. He's content with a simple life and grows his own fruit and veg on an allotment. You don't see him buying swanky clothes or cars or taking frequent luxury foreign holidays. His earnings will accumulate with a lifestyle like that.
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  1079.  @janeth3008  I watched a German video some time ago about autopsies on Covid patients that referred to blood clots as a distinctive characteristic of Covid patients who had died. In the end it's all about risk and people trying to decide whether for them, the vaccination is riskier than the disease.
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  1080. *poll
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  1081.  @gentlemanfarmer6042  I'm referring specifically to Rome, that's all. Rome actually had high rise buildings because they knew how to build with a form of concrete (called opus signinum). The dwellings inside were one room only. I have read a lot of books on Rome and the Romans and also taken part in archaeological digs on Roman sites.
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  1082.  @gentlemanfarmer6042  I was just stating some facts about Rome. I don't know why you keep referring to medieval peasants. Medieval times were later than Roman times - such a basic mistake. The sites I was digging on were served with underfloor heating. No hearths. Anyway I've said as much as I'm going to now. A good series of books to read, to know more about Rome is the Roman set of novels by Colleen McCullough (if you have the stamina). She did an amazing amount of research which informed those books. They start off in the times of Marius (the father of the Roman army) and go through Sulla, and Julius Caesar as far as Anthony and Cleopatra.
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  1083. This reflects Trump's two interests - avoiding criminal charges, and making money on investments.
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  1084. Boris is often shown exercising but never seems to lose weight, it appears.
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  1085. Michael Fabricant's tweet confirms that it's true.
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  1086. He'd hardly know who Nicola Sturgeon was. I bet Nigel Farage fed him those lines.
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  1087. No it's because she's a good actress and deserves the part. This is a drama not a history.
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  1088. MuscleAlphaMale. No, it's a Shakespeare play but not a "recreation of history". Shakespeare was not averse to changing the facts of history if it provided better drama. Many of these people look nothing like the historical characters they are playing. Henry VI is too handsome. Richard III does not have the right hairstyle and does not have scoliosis. Edward IV doesn't look tall enough. Elizabeth Woodville's hair should be blond instead of red. They don't talk like medieval people either. The clothes are made using modern materials but it's a great drama nonetheless.
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  1089. Often you don't get to hear the points being made because Morgan talks over people or moves on before they finish their points.
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  1090. He's aiming for the record, and wants to beat the USA at top country for Covid cases and deaths.
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  1091. He would not be dead if cops were properly trained so they know the difference between their taser and their gun.
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  1092.  @bushman143  Or more non voters and more voters for extremist politicians who provide easy scapegoats to blame.
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  1093.  @Rosskles  The IDF is reported as saying this on the BBC News site. This is the wording. 'The IDF says three Israeli hostages who were mistakenly killed in Gaza by the Israeli military had been holding up a white cloth on a stick An initial report by Israel's military into the deaths found that the hostages were fired upon against Israel's rules of engagement'
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  1094. Zakhawi was also given control of the Treasury (HMRC) at the time when it was investigating his tax affairs. Why don't you talk about the ex party chairman and huge Tory party donor, Michael Ashcroft who runs a company that supplies agency staff to the NHS and who hugely benefits from the NHS vacancy issue. So what incentive does the Tory Party have to fix the vacancy problem in the NHS while they are taking donations from Ashcroft? Sunak can't be a leader as his hands are tied by Tory Party factions including the ERG. But there is also huge ignorance in the leadership of the Tory Party except for personal money making.
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  1095. I understand the 'conflict' was included for dramatic purposes but they didn't fall out or have big disagreements in real life.
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  1096. *their. Lavrov is a blatant liar though so his word cannot be relied on.
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  1097. It's not the civil servants or incompetence. It was lack of will by the post office leaders and the government to disclose the truth and bring about redress for the victimised sub-postmasters. The reason for this was that the government wanted to sell off the post office but it needed to be profitable for that to happen and they knew that no one would want to buy it with a faulty IT system. I'm sure that came out in a Panorama documentary about it which can still be found on BBC iplayer.
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  1098.  J Haj  Are you saying that what Mattis is saying is fake news? I think Trump was right when he said he could shoot someone in the street and his supporters would still support him. They look for any excuse for his behaviour rather than seeing it for what it is.
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  1099. A very poetic description of jetlag.
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  1100. The USA and the EU, both guarantors of the GFA stated that the NI protocol safeguarded the GFA. Indeed that's why it was created. The DUP dissented from that view but the threat to the GFA came from them and their attituded to the Protocol, not from the Protocol itself. The DUP itself never signed up to the GFA, and hated it because they thought it made a United Ireland more likely and now the DUP are blocking the operation of the NI Executive as blackmail over the NI Protocol.
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  1101. You can't judge passion by tub thumping and ranting. The man has devoted his life to his causes and beliefs. That's passion for you.
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  1102. Really. In that case I would say I don't think Spanish fans realise which way the ESL is going - the end game - which would be to gain a bigger world audience, more money from advertising, sponsorship and gambling interests, and then for owners either to cash in and pull out, or rename it the World Super League, move it to be based in the USA and change the rules (such as removing the offside rule) to make it more 'exciting' for gamblers and fans and allow less skilled players to succeed (so more American players could succeed). It will become a money making circus for the wealthy. When football is just regarded as a 'cash cow' the interests of the sport and the fans get lost. It's not so much a sport but just 'sport entertainment' if no team can be relegated (success guaranteed).
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  1103. That's not the issue at all. The issue is the inadequate notification of the age change.
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  1104. In crowds with no masks.
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  1105. It's been constantly 'reformed' by the Tories, ever since Thatcher's day. They've made it more expensive to run.
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  1106. There are a lot of influential landlords in the Tory party.
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  1107. Matty Browne. It depends which side of the divide you come from, but she knows where she lives.
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  1108. We had 2 cats - 2 brothers called Sean and Seamus, but I like Liam as a name too. Maybe if we'd had a third cat.....
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  1109.  @DS9TREK  He's been a great supporter of Boris Johnson and his lies, which he has repeated.
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  1110.  Read Siege By James Mason  We can't. The Tories have already sold us to foreign investors such as the Saudis, the Qataris and the Russians. They tried to sell us to the Chinese also but that's not worked out. Next they'll be selling us to the Americans. They are a bunch of self interested charlatans - snake oil salesmen. I'd rather be in partnership with the EU.
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  1111. What is he doing if he doesn't understand the basic figures that affect the performance of the postal service? He doesn't even make a good pretence of working for the benefit of the postal service. In the tumbnail he has the expression of a man who is not used to being questioned. He doesn't have to even pretend to know the business because he has Trump's backing. He is also a sponsor of Trump with a vested interest in the outcome of the election and business interests which are in conflict with the public postal service. This is corruption so blatant it can be seen from space.
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  1112. On 24th April I had my 4th Covid vaccination because I'm considered vulnerable in terms of Covid 19. It was Moderna. Before that, over the years, I'd had Astra Zeneca, Pfizer and Moderna vaccs in that order. The worst was Astra Zeneca, It took me about a month to get over that with the main lingering symptoms being tiredness/weakness and palpitations. I don't recall the others being as bad but my recent Moderna jab seems worse. It started about the time that they said the vaccine would become effective. I got what seemed like a bad cold. I was away on holiday for a few days so didn't test for Covid until I returned. That test was negative. I've been feeling unwell since 13 May. Early symptoms included temperature, worsening asthma/breathing difficulties, sleep disturbance, headaches, runny nose, cough, tiredness. Lingering symptoms include daily headaches, though they don't last all day. They start from the morning, some confusion and inability to concentrate, tiredness, cough, stingy nose. This is complicated though because I can't be sure it's not just a cold that's hanging around too long. I'm being treated for cancer also, which has side effects of weakening the immune system and tiredness, but this seems to be on top of that. My cancer treatment is not chemo but hormones so my immune system is mildly weakened but not severely. I had the vaccine on medical advice but I'm minded not to have any more vaccinations in future. It's hard to take a stand against medical advice though. It feels so risky. I questioned the pharmacist who administered the shot, before he gave it as I'd not seen any stats on the prevalence of Covid currently and did not know anyone who'd had it, unlike the first time I'd had a shot. The pharmacist said that not so many people are getting Covid but those who do are getting worse symptoms and ending up in hospital. He later seemed to contradict himself when he said that most people who had had it, that had spoken to him about it, reported mild symptoms. He said the virus people were getting was still Omicron. I had Omicron in Jan 2023 and it was mild for me. Tiredness and headaches for about 10 days. I'd had worse symptoms from a cold/virus just before Xmas 2022. I don't think we are getting enough information.
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  1113. Guided by 'scientific advice'? Scientists can only advise the best way forward at this stage. They can't offer advice about past mistakes but nor would they condone past mistakes. A pandemic exercise and report in 2017 concluded the NHS was not prepared for a pandemic and advised the government to stock up on equipment. The government ignored that advice. In 2018 they created a central supplies company with a remit to 'streamline' the service, which meant cuts in staff and cuts in supplies. In 2019 they were warned again by scientists of the need to stock up. They didn't attempt to do so until the pandemic was upon us, by which time it was too late. The whole world was trying to get more PPE. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/hp-sauce
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  1114. I don't understand 'herd immunity. You put 80% at risk to save the other 20%? Herd immunity is basically 'let it rip'. This is when the government wakes up and realises they need to listen to experts who know what they are talking about, but they should have done that from the beginning.
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  1115. He means they would have succeeded better if they'd been sneakier and less blatant by doing it separately from the Paterson case rather than in the spotlight of it.
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  1116. She's as thick as 2 short planks and her thought processes are those of a parrot. Someone taught her some phrases and she endlessly repeats them.
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  1117.  Thawne  Because without leadership there would be only confusion, not co-operation, especially with this bunch of self interested ideologues. At least he was elected by a democratic process, however flawed.
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  1118. It's not going to end soon if they indulge in Covid spreading events.
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  1119. Doors are magical really. They are portals that take you from one reality to another. Ever gone from one room to another and had to go back again to the first room to remember something you'd forgotten? The power of doors.
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  1120. It's Republicans first, that's all.
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  1121. He never gets embarrassed about lying though.
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  1122. The word cancelled in British English has a double ll in it or are we slavishly adopting American English now?
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  1123. Giuliani seems like perfect casting for a mafia movie.
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  1124. Didn't say anything much in the way of policy either.
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  1125. The title was misleading. I was expecting the interviewers to put confounding bible quotes to the Christian Trumpists but they did not.
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  1126. 'Wasting' 'their'. I think laughter can be a unifying force. There's been too much nastiness in Parliamentary debate of late.
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  1127. Her comments were correct I'm sure but why did Starmer pick on the 'antisemitism' aspect only if he felt it was wrong?
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  1128.  OneGxxdSpliff Hf  Putin doesn't tolerate any democratic opposition though does he? A list of Putin's opponents who were mysteriously murdered, injured, or imprisoned:  Galina Starovoitova, opposition Duma Deputy killed Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia political party, shot and killed Mikhail Trepashkin jailed after a secret trial on espionage charges. Yuri Shchekochikhin, poisoned, Russian authorities refused to allow an autopsy Mikhail Trepashkin, a former KGB spy imprisoned Mikhail Khodorkovsky, sent to Siberia Nikolai Girenko, a prominent human rights defender, shot dead in his home Paul Klebnikov, editor Russian edition Forbes magazine, shot and killed in Moscow Viktor Yushchenko, anti-Russian candidate for the presidency of the Ukraine, is poisoned by Dioxin. Andrei Kozlov, shot and killed in Moscow Anna Politkovskaya,journalist, shot and killed in Moscow. Paul M. Joyal, shot in street Stanslav Markelov Russian human rights attorney shot in the back of the head Anastasia Barburova, a young journalism student. Shot in the back of the head. Moscow. Boris Nemtsov, Russian opposition politician, shot in the streets of Moscow near the Kemlin 2015 Natalia Estemirova leading Russian human rights journalist and activist,shot and killed Nikolai Glushkov – Russian businessman in the UK who had been given asylum – strangled in England Sergei Skripal – UK former spy – double agent poisoned with Novichok gas 2018 Yulia Skirpal UK daughter of Sergei Skripal poisoned with Novichok gas 2018 Sergei Magnitsky – Accountant in USSR who was investigating and exposed tax fraud by the Russian state. Imprisoned and died in prison after being beaten up. Prosecuted by the Russian state even after his death. Maxim Borodin – journalist found dying on the ground outside his 5th floor flat Mikhail Beketov – journalist left brain damaged and later died Oleg Kashin journalist left seriously injured after an assault Tatyana Felgengauer – journalist, stabbed in the neck while at work Alexander Litvinenko. KGB defector. Poisoned with Polonium in London Alexander Perepilichnyy Boris Berezovsky 6 Russian Diplomats who have died since Trump's victory Alexander Kadakin – Russia's ambassador to India Andrey Malanan Senior Russian diplomat in Greece Vitaly Churkin Russian ambassador to the UN Denis Voronenkon Russian politician who had fled to Ukraine Migayas Shirinskiy Russia's ambassador to Sudan Pyotr Verzilov. Pussy Riot Founder. Protested with girlfriend and others at World Cup Final against police persecution while Putin was watching from the stand. Poisoned on 11 Feb 2018 after attending girlfriend's court case. Mother was blocked from seeing him. Doctors refused to explain. Alexei Navalny – opposition leader to Putin. Poisoned on a flight within Russia 20.08.20 In the Crimea UN's June 2018 Crimea report accuses the Russian Federation of grave human rights violations in Ukraine. e.g multiple cases of torture e.g. Ibrahim Mirpochchaev Crimean journalist, abducted with his father and 2 brothers. Beaten for hours, asphyxiated with plastic bags, strangled, repeatedly tasered and violated with a hard probe used to electrocute him internally. Renat Paralamov, Crimean Tartar similar tale, forced confession. Server Karametov, 76 year old with Parkinson's disease prosecuted for holding a placard in support of 70 Crimean tartars being tried for multiple simultaneous peaceful lone demonstrations. Ervin Ibragimov, Tartar leader, dragged off by men in uniform May 2016. Not seen since. Oleg Sentsov, Crimean film maker, sentenced to 20 years in gaol. Olexander Kolchenko, his assistant, sentenced to 10 years. Gennady Afanasayev beaten, suffocated, stripped, threatened with rape and jailed, to force him to testify against Oleg Sentsov. He withdrew his testimony at the trial. Nariman Memediminov, Tartar activist, forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital- a measure described by his lawyer as punitive psychiatry. Nariman Memediminov, Tartar activist, forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital- a measure described by his lawyer as punitive psychiatry. Show less
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  1129. It's a crime to impersonate a policeman, not that it would bother Bojo.
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  1130. Flu doesn't thicken the blood, cause strokes or damage organs. Flu clears up within about 2 weeks. It doesn't have long lingering damage or symptoms. Some people don't suffer much with Covid. Some do. Trump has some risk factors in terms of age and obesity.
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  1131. Boris's latest deal was going through Parliament and he pulled it himself. Boris really wants a no deal. He's said as much. It saddens me the amount of deception going on by the Brexit politicians. The very people that are voting for this will suffer from a no deal Brexit. There is really nothing to be gained for the average person. The guy saying he would vote whichever way Farage tells him to, just about sums up this sad debacle.
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  1132. I think it's because most British people are not that interested in politics and not that knowledgeable about it. A politician only has to press a few of their buttons related to prejudices, scapegoats, and 'patriotism' to gain support at elections. That and some false promises and quite a few lies.
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  1133. Because she was the Queen of the British Empire of which Nigeria was a part before 1963. So before then, technically he was her subject but I understand the gesture of refusing to bow was striking a blow for independence.
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  1134.  @mikelisteral7863  I wouldn't worry about omnicron but I might worry about omicron.
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  1135. @Educat ional I'm not sure what you are seeing 'at work' and what you mean by 'your side of things'. I've had my first vaccination and I'm having my second in a few days time. Hopefully all goes well.
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  1136. He doesn't know the meaning of the word 'scammer' does he?
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  1137.  @philcav9891  What an inhumane response.
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  1138. 'Democracy is the worst system except for all the other systems'. Winston Churchill.
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  1139.  @leeuniverse  I read the article. She says she's 'super pro Bernie'. What she said about government and small businesses does not relate to Biden's time but it's clear she just dipped a toe in the water for her mittens. (She only ever made 30 pairs) She is a teacher and a mother and doesn't have time for it anyway (said Bernie). I know myself that it takes a long time to make anything by hand. Commercial production is done by machine. To get a profit on hand production the prices would need to be set too high to compete, so it's really technology developments that have made it not worth it as a business. It's a pity because her methods are ecologically sound. She makes them from recycled materials. Maybe Biden will introduce greener policies that would make such a business more viable.
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  1140. Reform would be worse. Maybe not on immigration but on everything else.
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  1141.  @adamhodgson8287  No. Just someone who wants to know more about something, rather than coming to snap judgements.
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  1142.  @fredrickaappletree3402  You can't generalise like that. They are not all the same. As for the ones that are like that, people voted them into power and are getting what they voted for.
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  1143. I suppose when things are going downhill they compare themselves to better times, not to the poorest in the world. The poorest in the world generally live in poor countries but the UK is not a poor country.
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  1144.  @stephan5673  Not really. That's what losing his court case means.
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  1145. I never got to hear it though I searched for it. Where did you hear it?
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  1146. Sammy Wilson is always suspicious.
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  1147. Who is President now? Bolsonaro. What did Bolsanaro do to protect the Brazilian population and reduce the spread of Covid? Nothing.
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  1148. It's a big price to pay for a colour change for British passports now made in France.
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  1149. That's just the view of The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express and Telegraph, but they are owned by rich men who fear a fairer politics would hit their pockets and their tax haven offshore investments.
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  1150. Mark UK.Because she represents them. Why does anyone vote for Boris Johnson, an inept liar whose only interest is getting a Brexit (preferably a hard Brexit) before January when a tightening of EU tax dodging regulations come into force that would adversely affect the moneyed and corporate interests that the Tory party really represents - and ordinary people are fooled into thinking he represents their interests - sad.
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  1151.  @randyvalantino6850  Switzerland is a small country that relies on its banking and insurance sectors for its wealth. Norway is also a smaller population than the UK and it has oil.
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  1152. She didn't get rid of him. He resigned in disgust.. All she did was bully and that won't get things done.
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  1153. He's also pretty ignorant.
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  1154. With that majority they'll be safe for 5 years at least.
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  1155. Stupid comment
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  1156. There's a long list of critics and opponents that Putin has done away with.
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  1157.  @Craig121000  Why is it fair for everyone to suffer? Fairness would be no one suffering. We are not a poor country.
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  1158. In the book 'Diary of a Nobody', there are characters called Cummings and Gowing and the main character makes a joke that Gowing's always coming and Cummings is always going. Strange co-incidence. P.S. I forgot to mention another co-incidence - the main character's wife is called Carrie. Cummings and Gowings are meant to be his friends but you get the impression that they sometimes irritate him.
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  1159. You remind me of the Philip Henslowe character in 'Shakespeare in Love'. He always says 'Don't worry things will come good. They always do'. When asked how this would happen he says. 'I don't know. It's a mystery'.
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  1160.  @momurda6  It's about cuts not corruption. It's not about 'Western governments'. Germany was fine. UK government was not.
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  1161. How does JRM know that EU suppliers in the EU aren't dumping on the UK, veg and other stuff that it can't sell within the EU because it does not meet EU standards?
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  1162. The right treats the working class as if they are easily duped.
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  1163.  @uniquevideosUk  The pollution also affects the working class more as they often can't afford to live in the quieter less polluted roads.
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  1164. Easily fooled by Trump it seems and very naive.
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  1165. That would have ruled out Johnson.
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  1166. I think the Mexicans will be wanting to build a wall now.
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  1167. The Guardian is hardly 'hard left' except from the viewpoint of the 'hard right'.
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  1168. @Steve Bray Too late I fear. The time for that was the election.
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  1169.  @Reverend-Rodger  Starmer did not break the law by having parties. They stopped for a meal break while they were working and the police investigated and said there was no infringement of the law and guidance at that time. Starmer's breaking of standards was not that he didn't declare these things but they were declared about a month after the deadline. Hardly on the same scale as Boris's standards breaking, and Boris even tried to change the standards to get himself and his mate Owen Paterson, off the hook. That's an abuse of power.
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  1170. Not really. She's a lawyer who can't seem to help breaking the law and breaking rules as if they don't apply to her, and no matter what she believes in she doesn't achieve. She tried to avoid the fine and the penalty though. Are rule abiders a 'woke blob'? Aren't the Tories meant to be the party of law and order?
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  1171. I agree his Brexit stance wasn't popular but if you look at the policies in the Manifesto it would have helped the North a lot, but I suppose voters don't read the Manifestos.
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  1172. She was a Head of State and representing both her country and the British Empire of which Nigeria was a part until 1963. There are always protocols when the representatives of countries are involved and before 1963, technically she was his overlord.
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  1173. Free speech exists but public opprobrium also exists, and TV companies don't want to lose money. In the end the market rules.
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  1174. They eat small stuff like Krill. They don't have the teeth for eating meat.
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  1175.  @joyeboda2588  The guy is blind, stupid or wilfully ignorant. He's representing and protecting appalling practices.
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  1176. And the Tories are not doing that? At least Labour will invest in the economy. The Germans and Portuguese got out of the last recession without adopting an austerity programme because they know about the economic theory that says you get out of a recession by spending to invest, and then you save when times are good.
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  1177.  @raatkirani4405  Your comment is so ignorant it's staggering. A candidate for the Guinness book of records I think. Genetic material is not the same as a virus. It's not a DNA test.
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  1178.  @micah.101  What have old people's deaths, or lack of them, got to do with the virus not being killed by the heat? Old people who know they are vulnerable are probably avoiding the risk situations. A lot of older people in care homes died because they could not avoid the risks when untested hospital patients were sent back into care homes, which at the time didn't have PPE and other protective equipment.
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  1179. How many people visited this site because they enjoy a good Shakespeare play?
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  1180. Trump doesn't want 'dangerous' facts getting out to the public. How he wishes he had the adulation of Kim Jong Un. Why won't people behave?
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  1181. What's the point of voting for people who don't want to do anything for their salaries?
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  1182. I thought you already had a herd immunity policy given Trump's ineffectual policies on Covid. By tomorrow your deaths will be 190,000 and it's not as if all those that recover are going to be completely back to normal. Some will have longer term health problems from the effects of the virus.
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  1183. @D C How do you know that 4 people use double the services that 2 people do? They may not. Unemployed people get a discount because they are in unfortunate circumstances - poorer than those who have a job. Civilised countries look after their poor better, or should do.
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  1184.  @apezzero  Contributions to GDP are probably not relevant because transport including railways are not a profitable enterprise and that's true the world over. Public transport is subsidised by governments to a greater or lesser degree. The Tories privatisation of the railways meant that public subsidies had to increase to create a 'profit' element for shareholders but now the government has control of the railways again because running them as a private enterprise didn't work during Covid when passenger traffic fell away. In another video, Lynch says that every time some proposal was discussed the employer's side had to go off and check with the government and that the government had given the employers side a mandate to comply with. It's deceitful to pretend that this is just a negotiation between the employers and the unions. The government as the string pullers should also be at the negotiating table.
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  1185. A whole corrupt society living off the backs of these poor women. The government should clean up its act.
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  1186.  @flnoname9586  Not since ever, since 1966.
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  1187.  @ryanmets9155  It's a sad state of affairs though that the media often doesn't report him in any prominent way whereas they will report Angela Rayner when she calls the Tories 'scum'. The media live for soundbites and drama.
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  1188.  @fenriz218  It's not a farce. Why do people get so wound up about casting? In Shakespeare's time they watched women characters played by men. This is a drama not an accurate history.
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  1189. Unsurprising news: Poor spelling disproportionately affects right wingers.
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  1190. I think the doctors know more than you when they give reasons for deaths.
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  1191. He needs something to poot into.
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  1192.  @thebffs9755  No I mean she died in 1977.
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  1193.  @thebffs9755  When she was 65.
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  1194. What did Carrie see in him, I wonder? She must be as bad as him and it's scary that they are bringing up children.
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  1195. And having faecal matter discharged into their waterways too.
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  1196.  @monikastreet5602  I'm referring to deterioration in quality of river and sea water as evidenced by water quality testing, caused by illegal discharge of sewage by water companies.
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  1197.  @stephenmurray2851  Human beings are not crocodiles or horses (different species) They are the same species. Different species like crocodiles and horses can't mate and produce children.
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  1198. Sounds like Trump is trying to turn the USA into Hong Kong. Well he always said he admired President Xi. Trump won't even commit to accepting the election result if he's voted out of office. He's probably scared of all the charges he'll be facing if he's out of office. I bet he wishes he could change the law like Putin so he will be in power for as long as he wants.
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  1199.  @chrisj9700  I distrust the word 'modernisation' when used in politics. It's a charlatan's word - a word often used to make something distasteful sound reasonable.
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  1200.  @michelgobets3803  No they don't It's professional doctors who sign death certificates. There are at least flu vaccinations to protect against flu. There are no vaccinations for Covid at present.
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  1201.  @michelgobets3803  Bully
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  1202. How does this translate into other languages I wonder?
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  1203. Conor Rosenberg. Could it be because Russia keeps hacking western government websites? Could it be because it tries to interfere in western elections? Could it be because Putin has just announced new weapons (missiles) that can reach the west and can't be destroyed? Could it be because his planes invade western airspace? Could it be because he supports the dictator of Syria? Could it be because he has political opponents and journalists killed and some of them in western states? Could it be because he runs a criminal mafia type state and his cronies launder stolen money into foreign assets? These are not the friendly acts of a democratic state.
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  1204. Would he want to go somewhere where he'd likely get poisoned?
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  1205. In Britain many muslims have come from Pakistan, India or Bangladesh, which are in Asia, therefore Asian.
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  1206. Now we need to see their spending plans. The Health and Social Care Secretary, Sajid Javid, was unable to answer the question of how much extra he would be spending on social care and when.
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  1207. I don't understand why people in the USA have to register for a particular party. That's not a requirement in the UK for instance. You can join a political party there but it's entirely voluntary and you can vote as you wish. Can someone please explain this US difference to me? Who benefits by having a party registration system?
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  1208. Pencils are not deadly weapons and are used in the normal course of education. What are crossbows used in the normal course of?
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  1209.  @Queen.lizard.1947  In the big picture it's very relevant, when the big picture is controlled by liars and information on the big picture is given by liars.
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  1210.  @dalegribble9101  * laziness. Too lazy to consult a dictionary?
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  1211. or end up like India.
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  1212. * "poppet" is a term of endearment. Did you mean "puppet"? Forget it, I've lost interest.
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  1213. Page is nearly 80 now and has earned his retirement. He can do what he wants now and doesn't have to listen to anyone including you.
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  1214.  @levasburakovas8580  But people who have more than the least bit of braincell know that's rubbish. Putin has got rid of every politician who could stand against him with any degree of support. Putin is not a democrat. It's harder for Navalny to be killed in captivity as it will be obvious that the authorities killed him since they are the only ones who have access to him and the authorities already have a bad record regarding their opponents. Killing him is likely to be a more subtle act of deprivation of his medicine, though that may not work to Putin's advantage. Even Putin probably doesn't want repercussions as with the previous Magnitsky Act in the USA.
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  1215. He can't even see that he's part of the problem.
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  1216.  @Bahama3ay  Well it's not been much publicised by the Tory tabloids (if at all) but that idiot Boris, when he got his withdrawal agreement gave away £7 billion of British money that was sitting in the European bank and he didn't even have to do that. He does not really value public money. To him it's just free money to be given away to the already wealthy. The CAP also protects small British farmers though I'm for reform of it but leaving farmers without any protection in a hard Brexit would be disastrous for small farmers like Welsh hill farmers because the tariff on sheep exports to Europe would be over 40% and farmers won't be able to compete against cheap imports from the likes of the USA because their costs are cheaper because they use chemicals banned in Europe and have lower animal welfare standards. The only farmers that would do o.k under a hard Brexit are industrial scale ones that would adopt the same low standards. There have been some industrial scale farms in Britain on the USA model (though with higher EU standards) but the pollution of neighbouring land and waterways from animal waste from these giants, has been very bad. Did you know also under this government that there is no now river that is regarded as free from pollution?
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  1217. In the video, when they talked about where she came from, they showed a clip of her travelling so I wonder if they took her back home.
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  1218. Probably him in conjunction with civil servants and economic advisers.
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  1219.  @mfoco1 Admitting the truth.
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  1220. If we leave without a deal that would be a catastrophe. The majority of MPs realise that and the rest are in it for their own personal gain or that of their backers.
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  1221. Gabriel Peguero. Yes he does and it's hard to say which of them is the bigger buffoon.
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  1222. Isabelle O.K. Boris is quite capable of talking that himself.
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  1223. It's not really that bad. You are believing exaggerated reports. If you came here you would not feel under threat. Really it's very civilized.
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  1224. Let's get things in perspective. There are 7 billion people in the world in total so non-Muslims vastly outnumber Muslims according to your figures. I don't know what the figures for the whole of Europe are but in the last British census, people declaring themselves as Muslims were 5% of the total. Most Muslims are peaceful law abiding citizens. Stop panicking.
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  1225. Kron Hertz. London's not for backward looking people or fascists.
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  1226. sean locheed. Firstly you need to say who your comment is to. An eye for an eye is about vengeance and retribution. I can't see the relevance of that comment. If you are saying the casting is not o.k. I would say it's such a small thing I can't understand why people are getting worked up about it.
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  1227. These are the Top 10 American female comedians. No other nationality is in the video.
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  1228. But you already pay tax don't you. If so, yours are part of the pooled resources.
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  1229. noti tuz Or a Japanese Macbeth (see Throne of Blood) Or an American or English Hamlet or Romeo. Tut tut.
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  1230. It was Cameron who went.
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  1231.  @steffanhoffmann8937  Based on scientific research I'm afraid. It doesn't mean every woman is more observant than every man. It's a generalisation. It may not be their sex per se which has made women more observant, but rather their historic position in societies which means they have been allowed to speak less so observe more. Or it may be that historically they have been more responsible for the care and safety of children, and are therefore more alert to non verbal signals, and what they might mean, as they are on the lookout for danger. Perhaps more equality will mean they become less observant, who knows.
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  1232. So your worst insult is to call him a woman? Misogyny in action.
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  1233. Jeremy Hunt is a swivel eyed loon.
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  1234. Well, in spite of the resignation of Cameron and Brexit, May said she would definitely NOT call an election - and then she did.
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  1235. +sylv sylv About 60 million people died in WW2 - 20 million of them in Soviet Russia. It's estimated that Stalin was responsible for another 20 million deaths on top of those who died in WW2. So ultimately Hitler is responsible for more deaths than Stalin but it's not an enviable record in either case.
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  1236. TheDogonebad I don't think you live in England or have much knowledge about it. There is not just BBC news, there is ITV news, Channel 4 news,Sky news, Al Jazheera news, Fox News, online news, radio news (many channnels) etc. Nearly all of the newspapers are right wing.Most people in England vote conservative and there's a movement towards UKIP which is another right wing party. People are not being brainwashed. You are an idiot with a fixed obsession so I'm not going to waste my time explaining any more.
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  1237. He was good for the rich people he represented and good at pretending to represent the rest. His background was in public relations before he entered politics - and it shows.
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  1238. It's depressing how there are Hitler apologists still prepared to rear their heads. If you enjoy living under dictatorship there are still plenty to choose from.
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  1239. ***** No. My comment was not about Americans. It was a more general comment about people who think that killing those who have different religions or cultures is some sort of solution, good thing or necessity. My comment was a near quotation from an Eddie Izzard sketch about people who kill on a massive scale.
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  1240. What muricans?
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  1241. Christian Doll You stay in the U.S and don't live in Europe then. That's a win win for you and Europe.
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  1242. Her Shakespearean language is better than yours anyway.
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  1243. He never voted with the establishment and he was never part of a government other than as a back bencher. He always voted for what he believed in.
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  1244. When we went to Venice we also explored the backstreets - very atmospheric, and the islands that you can reach by Vaporetto as well as the Lido. It's all great.
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  1245. No I don't want to get off this Island. I am not a quitter.
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  1246. Don't kid yourself. Making up this conspiracy story to defend yourself shows how dishonourable you are.
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  1247.  @deepdivernum1424  Why didn't he finish it in California? What's his excuse there?
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  1248.  @Tie509  I think there must be a large market for being fooled. Eager believers.
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  1249. You're probably a Tory.
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  1250. There's the aspect of not attending, but also the aspect of not doing anything - not following the emergency plan. So presumably that was one of the 'major decisions' he took, since Gove says Boris took all the 'major decisions' during that time.
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  1251. Someone commented that the guy has a website where he talks about a drug used to treat schizophrenia and bi-polar conditions, and he says it does not work.
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  1252. Yes, they have their own sly agenda to put as many obstacles as possible in the way of Ireland ever becoming united, although the Good Friday Agreement allows for it with the consent of the majority in NI. A hard border would break the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. Also NI voted to stay in the EU, and he, its elected representative, doesn't even want a customs union with the EU. It does not have to be THE customs union. I.e it doesn't have to be the same customs union. The DUP doesn't seem that interested in peaceful democratic solutions in Ireland. More like they are itching to use any trouble stirred up by a hard border to impose more violent solutions. I'm not sure that's what their constituents would want though.
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  1253. When Trump says 'fake news' you know it's true. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me (as a former President once tried to say).
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  1254.  @briansykes2806  Aaargh! You've described my very nightmare scenario. Living in the equivalent of a rabbit hutch in the sky with no garden and an ugly environment everywhere you look. Towns and city environments ruined. I have actually lived 20 floors up in a 21 story block for about a year but I can't really live without a garden. Happily I did buy my own house before prices went crazy. Do you not know the effects of environment on mental well being, and physical well being too, come to that? I would not object to existing unused office space being converted into accommodation but it would not be suitable for families. Actually there's a lot of the kind of housing you advocate being built in London - not as high but with so many units so close together and I imagine desperate people buying them (young professionals as landlords and developers all seem to aim at) and when they are older and want children they will all try to move and no one will want to buy their flats. They'll find the price drops like a stone and they'll probably eventually become the new slums of the future.
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  1255.  @briansykes2806  Cost of living is higher there and though the wages are higher I'm retired now so that wouldn't help.. Anyway I never want to live away from home. I would miss the culture. It's what I've grown up with and my ancestors have lived in these islands probably for millennia. Why should I have to move because the 5th or 6th richest society in the world can't get its act together? Thankfully I don't have to move. Some children of my friends live and work in Japan now. So I think it's future generations that will be looking to move. At one time Europe would also have been an option for young people but not if we Brexit.
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  1256.  charlie cheeseface  European history is what I studied and what interests me and it's some of the oldest in the Western world. Europeans allow each country's culture to flourish. I would not want to be dominated by American culture, Australia does not have much culture and the culture of Canada is not as rich. Yes I know we fought against Napoleon in the past but more recently (WWI and WW2) France has been our ally. America has much lower trading standards than Europe because its governments are dominated by corporations and the interests of corporations come higher up the agenda than public health. Also it has a very unfair health system.
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  1257.  @boxingfan2556  There are a number of factors at work. Let's not get simplistic. All should be taken into account. We need some workers to do jobs that we don't have the numbers or the willingness to do ourselves, in the health and care systems and in the farming sector. We need more training and retraining of home grown workers in skills whether that's in colleges or by employers themselves (as used to happen in the past) There's also the fact that some buildings are sold to 'foreign investors' and just sit empty. London is affected by this trend and often the money used to buy them is the criminal proceeds of fraud and theft being laundered.
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  1258.  @BLUELOVEFOREVER1  Ideally, in theory, but not in reality because of the tendency towards monopolies where companies buy up competitors to eliminate competition.
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  1259. Inheritance tax does not affect people while they are alive and only affects 6% of households anyway.
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  1260.  @seyley2901  From Kemi as he or she said. Everyone needs saving from Kemi.
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  1261. Some of these MPs are very dim, asking the same questions over and over even though they've had the answers previously.
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  1262.  @amazinggracemessenger3435  Yours is the false news. I only had to read the first section to see that. I have asthma and wearing a mask does not 'cut off my oxygen'. You sound hysterical like you have been visiting too many conspiracy sites.
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  1263. She has served her constituents well.
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  1264. @RandomlyInaccurate But beyond the terms of their employment, undoubtedly.
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  1265. Policies and competence are more important than personality. They are not there for their entertainment value.
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  1266. I don't know if it's also online. I wish they would have it there because then you could zoom to increase the text size.
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  1267. Post election I think. He's been expected to do one.
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  1268. I'm sure that's the intention. It's the USA model that Conservative governments admire.
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  1269.  @inoneear3399  Because he's giving the people the choice between a deal that won't cost jobs or sink the economy or Remain. He wants to stay neutral so he has the credibility to carry forward whichever option people vote for - simples!
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  1270. Populist more like, not popular.
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  1271. Well she was smiling. I wondered what Simon Case was thinking. He had an inscrutable expression.
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  1272.  @Higgins8  A traitor to whom?
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  1273. Hard not to be left of Atilla the Hun.
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  1274. The people keep voting in a government that doesn't give a toss about them and wants to privatise everything.
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  1275. I remember watching a video of a GLA meeting where Khan was proposing increased stop and search to combat knife crime, and Shaun Bailey was against it, shouting at Khan that it was a racist policy.
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  1276.  @theJ3ZA  Surely the Karens will be the ones insisting on having their own way, not the compliant ones.
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  1277. It's in the withdrawal agreement signed by the UK government. If they don't stick to their agreement the EU will take them to court. The Tories don't even have proper checks in Dover, never mind for NI. I don't know why they wanted Brexit if they don't want checks. Brexit means Britain is outside the EU so can't behave as if it's still in there.
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  1278. You only have to look at the rules to see he broke them and he has lied about what's in the rules to suggest he didn't break them. Also, while away, he went out with his family for a nice jolly trip to a beauty spot on his wife's birthday and pretended that the 60 mile round trip was to test his eyesight. It's laughable. He must take people for fools.
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  1279. That in itself is a message.
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  1280. Trump was always on Russia's side.
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  1281. 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it', as the saying goes.
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  1282. No. Exercise is allowed, but not crowding.
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  1283. It's a crime to impersonate a policeman, not that Bojo is bothered about breaking the law.
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  1284. A candidate for the most ignorant comment perhaps. She did back Boris until he lied to her about the protocol. I've no sympathy for either though. She blackmailed the May government for £1bn.
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  1285. Allow time for all the scandals emerge.
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  1286. I still wouldn't live in a high rise if you paid me. Doesn't this building even have a name?
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  1287. 'What would you do for Sun readers?'. The proper answer is 'educate them'.
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  1288. All the Tories have left is marketing, no substance. There are still 1.6m people who will experience higher mortgages this year as their fixed ones come to an end.
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  1289.  @frothe42  Epitome
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  1290. Yes, viruses will control us if we let them. Fortunately we have vaccines now.
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  1291.  @pm2886  I think you missed the sarcasm in my comment. I'm not advocating that.
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  1292.  @pm2886  No work in the countryside and no good public transport system.
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  1293.  @pm2886  You can't inflict yourself on someone who doesn't want you. Plenty of people with personality disorder or mental health issues, drug or alcohol addicts or who are sociopathic, narcissistic, depressed, psychopathic, disorganised, a history of abuse or criminality etc can't find people who want to live with them and some people just prefer to live alone. Why is that so hard to understand?
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  1294.  @pm2886  I think you are detached from modern reality. Poor people don't live premium locations unless they were born there in a house with no mortgage, before house prices went up. Poor people can't even afford many non premium locations now and even those with moderately good incomes can't afford to live in many cities if they are trying now.
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  1295.  @romererunamerika9437  I didn't know the vaccine would affect me for a month. I don't think it would have changed my decision if I'd known beforehand. I would just have been more anxious about it. Before that I'd had 2 doses of the Astra Zeneca vaccine and those did not affect me as much or for as long. I have to take decisions on a balance of risks. I have type 2 diabetes, chronic asthma and have had cancer 3 times, (in the 1980s, in 2001 and more recently in 2019). Modern medicine has kept me alive and functioning well. Life is not risk free anyway.
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  1296. Labour isn't far left. Corbyn has gone and Starmer is much more of a moderate centrist. They have noticed that haven't they?
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  1297.  @vadimgolub8605  I don't know. Maybe he's afraid of Putin or just doesn't want to admit that his actions opened the way for the likes of Putin. He may be concerned about his legacy and how he will be seen in history.
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  1298. It's a virus but yes, rest would help.
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  1299. Khan is not as left wing as Ken.
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  1300. The spin begins. 100 more licences have been granted to French fishermen.
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  1301. Sorry, nurses are more important than most of the rest. They have our lives in their care. The private sector have had pay rises way above the public sector now but I agree many people need a pay rise now and need to press for one, not condemn others that do.
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  1302. This is spin. The British have granted 100 more licences to French fishermen.
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  1303. When we have the flu jab the needles are quite short. Why do the Covid vaccine needles have to be so long and scary? It reminds me of vaccines as a child when big long needles hurt my thin arms. They seemed to take ages to go in, and in my imagination I thought they would hit my bone.
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  1304. Churchill would have thought you were a load of fascist thugs (dressed in black?) and got the army out to deal with you.
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  1305.  @mayshack  Good thing too. I approve.
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  1306.  @tedwarden1608 I misremembered but I did say afterwards that it was Dr Johnson if you followed the comments. It seems a very apt comment for some politicians these days.
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  1307. Not as smug as Jacob Rees Smug who has now gone, thankfully.
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  1308. I don't think her comments were anti-semitic. She was making the point that black people suffer more racism than other minority groups because of their colour which marks them out. In comparison she mentioned Jews and Irish people. It was rather stupidly phrased and she apologised swiftly, but Starmer has used it as an excuse to get rid of yet another left wing Labour MP. He didn't bother with the Irish aspect though.
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  1309. Is he ever going to allow her to speak.
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  1310. It is for judges of the Supreme Court to interpret the law and the constitution. If there were no limits to a prorogation process, what's to stop the government from proroguing frequently or even permanently to get rid of democratic opposition which would turn us into a dictatorship. There have to be some limits and some justifications. I don't rate Sharkey that much. As a historian, he makes mistakes in his history programmes - elementary errors.
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  1311.  @heresjohnny602  Oh yeah. Groan
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  1312. Conspiracy paranoia.
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  1313. She's been trained since a young age not to show her feelings.
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  1314. The lack of effective PPE is a scandal.
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  1315.  @ArjunGupta-tz5xo  Rubbish. They don't mention the number of people he has had killed. He heads up a kleptocracy.
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  1316.  Michael Sweeney  Hardly.
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  1317.  @therb6365  You thought your comment was so good you'd post it twice, or perhaps you are not good with technology.
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  1318. Given her strong reaction to the wine spillage and him falling asleep at times, if he'd sexually assaulted her as she said, why would she put up with that or stay with him a moment longer? It doesn't add up.
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  1319. The way of self destruction.
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  1320. Those voting for Brexit are going to be the ones getting a kicking if there's a hard Brexit.
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  1321.  @eastwest1362  The woman in charge has already been awarded a CBE some years ago.
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  1322. Things can change though as the economy changes, or events outside of people's control suddenly hit them.
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  1323.  @jeffreyjones8531  Yes but that was 76 years ago. It's a changed place since then with a changed mentality and it has confronted its bad history through education etc. How long does it take you to adapt to changed circumstances?
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  1324. It didn't happen because of the lockdown but NHS staff were exhausted working long hours for long periods and many of them died. I believe between 600-700 NHS staff died in the UK. Now a lot of cases are among younger people who don't tend to die and don't as often need admission to hospital, but we should care about rising cases because it can put us back to square one with more older people and vulnerable people dying again and the risk of the NHS being overwhelmed. There are younger people who don't die but need hospital care while they are ill. The percentage may be low but the sheer numbers can grow, the more cases there are.
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  1325. I can't see the Tories ever uniting. So many of them are not capable of compromise 'for the sake of the country' and they are divided ideologically.
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  1326. I'm sure they'll be tested if they haven't been already.
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  1327.  @Bobbynutty  More lives would have been lost if Covid was allowed to let rip and hospitals were overwhelmed. Not only would they not be able to treat all Covid patients needing treatment, but they wouldn't be able to treat other people with serious illnesses either. The number of intensive care beds and staff are limited.
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  1328. He should be cooling his heels in prison.
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  1329.  Connor Cook  How so? The numbers of excess deaths are also checked, which shows that it's likely the number of Coronavirus deaths are actually underreported as not everyone who was sick and died was tested for Coronavirus to begin with, but only if they made it to hospital. Care home deaths from the virus were not counted until recently.
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  1330.  @drunkensailor112  I didn't vote for Brexit. I voted Remain.
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  1331. Where else can they go?
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  1332. Face masks are hard to get hold of, so they keep their distance instead.
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  1333.  @daredemontriple6  I visited Henry's ship 'The Mary Rose' and in that exhibition you get the chance to try out a longbow. It requires some strength to pull it but boys and men of this time were required to engage in regular practice with the longbow. Apparently it caused muscles on one side to become larger than the other.
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  1334. Judging by what criteria?
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  1335. How many others have this hit squad killed, and what are the names of their victims?
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  1336. That was their biggest weakness for Labour though they did promise to honour Brexit if people still voted for it in a Referendum with a softer Brexit option (to protect jobs). I can see it was difficult for them because their voters were split over Leave and Remain and as information about what leave would be like under a hard Brexit came more and more to light, they could not see benefits for the average person only an economic hit. It is probably for the best that the Tories are responsible for Brexit now because it's their baby really and I think it's going to be a bumpy ride. If Labour had a bumpy ride with it or didn't do a hard Brexit, they would be blamed by the Tories for any problems. The truth is Brexit will be difficult for any political party to pull off without economic damage.
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  1337. I think you need to learn about Nazi Germany.
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  1338.  @stephenbutterfield5986  Try small pharmacies for hand sanitizer, particularly independent ones or ones which are not so popular (not so many customers). We got some today like that.
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  1339. I don't know if Trump ever panics. He whines but he mainly uses his third rule, 'never admit defeat, always claim victory'. His other 2 rules are 'attack attack attack', and 'deny deny deny' (see the film 'The Apprentice').
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  1340. @Joe Bennett I'm assuming they think that Trump's interests are the same as theirs. So the best interests of their nation are no real pay rise since the 1970s while the richest 1% get ever richer and the gap between these groups increasingly widens? Hmm! Let's see how long they'll continue to have faith in him. I'll admit he puts on a good performance if you're not inclined to think too much.
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  1341.  @timmarsh8902  Who has been saying that they might not need a second jab?
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  1342. The Tories are hardly 'eco zealots'. They reduce green investment at every opportunity, and Nigel, as he says, did help them to their victory. He should not have been under any illusions about what the Brexit supporting Tory Party was like. Brexit was never going to have any advantages for the UK, and Nigel should stop pretending that it does. This is the man who applied for a German passport the day after the Referendum result. He says the BBC will be against Truss but the BBC has a Tory appointed Chairman, a Tory Director General and a Tory board member who is a Tory activist. When he calls certain Tory Party members 'leftists', that's because they don't measure up to his fascist leanings, which lurk under his superficial bonhomie and 'charm'.
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  1343.  @mohammadadnan9685  Being murdered by criminals or being murdered by a murderous regime like the Taliban. What's the difference?
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  1344. Priti Patel has now been made a Dame hasn't she? She's in the Lords now. No need for strong opposition campaigns, perhaps when the Tories have so many MPs prepared to self-destruct. What's the number so far?
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  1345. Even though Labour oppose the Tory policies, you won't vote for them and won't vote ever again. You get what you vote for. If you don't vote you get what other people vote for.
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  1346. They may have been leaked by the Russians, but I've never heard the Tories say the documents themselves were not genuine.
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  1347. Trump never understood the difference between business and politics.
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  1348. This comes from people who have truth challenges.
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  1349.  @riverdonoghue9992  They are interested in more than that but that's some all people seem to want to focus on.
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  1350.  @robertscollick3382  You are delusional if you think that the Irish would not fight back against a takeover. Imagine it the other way round. Do you think the English would not fight back. As for the rest of the World they could not contemplate the breaking of international law by the UK. It would become a pariah state. You also underestimate the strength of the Irish lobby in all the countries that they had to emigrate to including the UK. In fact you are so delusional or have such a warped sense of humour that you must be a troll - not worth responding to any more.
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  1351. I think he would have done something about housing, public transport and the NHS.
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  1352. Kwarteng's in denial at this point. How on earth can growth come from people having less money to spend, and the government can't rely on the Bank of England forever propping up pension funds? He's careful not to make unfunded financial commitments on the floor of the house, he says, but he's been happy to make them up to now. There are so many dumbos in the Tory Party government now and very few with common sense and influence.
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  1353. What's missing from this video is his parents' reactions when he came out of his coma and what was the first thing he said to them.
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  1354. They do also have an ideology which works against the interests of all but the wealthiest in society, but they don't generally explain what that ideology is to voters. It's easier just to trigger their prejudices.
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  1355. I expect this is why Trump is so ignorant, because when anyone tried to correct his school or college work or even teach him something he would just flip his lid.
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  1356. After years of interventions by politicians? Wasn't the funding for all those projects and youth activities cut during austerity?
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  1357. Boris pulled his own deal when it was going through - he can't blame anyone for that. What he really wants to do is go no deal.
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  1358. He's only been thought of as wealthy because he exaggerated. He is asset rich though and could sell some of those.
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  1359. He's already told everyone. Keep up.
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  1360. She does her as well.
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  1361. They are reporting facts. The opinions are all your own.
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  1362. Freedom! Oh yeah, freedom to die.
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  1363. Sorry but the Brexiteers are the stupid ones. They think things will be better out of the Union. They'll be worse.
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  1364.  @fatfat1877  Explanation: We'll be down the plughole if we try leaving without a deal just on WTO terms. No country in the world trades just on WTO terms because in trading terms it's the 4th division. They all want deals with a big trading block which is the premier division which is where we are now. It's a bit of a myth that the EU controls us. There are some rules of membership but 99% of what the UK spends is determined by the UK government. So what happens if we go to no deal WTO terms? We have to then set a tariff for trading with the world and under WTO terms it has to be the same tariff for everyone we trade with in the same goods. If we set a tariff that will push prices up for UK consumers and we'll be worse off. If we set a zero tariff (possible under the rules) our farming and manufacturing won't be able to compete with cheap imports from countries where workers have no rights and are paid pennies an hour so our farming and manufacturing industries will be destroyed. Don't just take my word for it. Patrick Minford, an economist who is for a hard Brexit says the same about the future of British farming and manufacturing. It will affect other economic sectors also. Wealthy people like ex stockbroker Farage and Jacob Rees Mogg will be raking it in because WTO rules do not regulate financial systems and they will be even more free to squirrel away their profits to tax havens around the world. Also over 80% of our exports are services and 49% of those are to the EU. The day we hard Brexit, those services with lose their 'passport' rights to European EU countries, which is why businesses are talking about moving their headquarters to the Europe. The very people who want Brexit because they are suffering under the present government's austerity programme, will be stuffed even more under no deal Brexit. None of this was explained before the Referendum by a campaign that wasn't even talking about a no deal Brexit. As for getting trade deals, as a member of the EU, we have over 40 trade deals that will no longer apply the day we go out on no deal and there are only a handful lined up to replace them. Trade deals take years to negotiate because they are complex covering everything traded between countries. Trump is protectionist and the US is a larger economy than ours, and if we want a trade deal with the USA it will be very much on his terms, as he doesn't need to deal. His negotiators have already said they want access to NHS funding for their corporations as part of the deal and for us to take their farming products like chlorine washed chicken and hormone fed beef - practices currently banned by the EU. China and Russia are not our friends and in any case they don't allow countries to export freely to theirs. They are protectionist. Asian countries have each other to trade with nearby. The only thing India wants from us is more visas for people to come here. Other countries won't make up for the loss of the big trading area on our doorstep (the EU). The way out of our problems is to vote for a party that will do something about inequality in the UK and protect jobs and trade, and that's not the Tories or the Brexit party. Farage has stated he is for replacing the NHS with an insurance based market system. He is for taking restrictions off the sale of handguns and he has other right wing policies too. If we set a zero tariff, that would be zero for EU trade also, except as outsiders the EU would be placing a tariff on us (could be 40%). That would make us uncompetitive in trading with the EU. You can't just count the cost of trading with the EU in terms of our subscriptions. You have to count the benefits to the economy too and the health and welfare of people to get the whole picture.
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  1365. They didn't do any 'national service' while in government did they?
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  1366.  @britishmgtow7251  Google it.
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  1367.  @davidrobinson2776  I can't see it happening. The Labour Party doesn't like Johnny Come-Latelys swanning in and taking over. They are often suspicious of those who change party, and the Conservatives would find it easy to paint him as an opportunist who changed sides for the sake of his career. Even if not true, the mud would likely stick with voters.
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  1368.  @chrisharrison763  That's the easy bit. Talk is cheap. Boris is good at talk - not so good at delivery.
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  1369. @GillMunchen-m6h Snob or just a misogynist or both?
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  1370.  @DrBox88  On the contrary it is the right who seek to prop up a system that exploits the working class while seeking to divide them based on race, background and culture against one another. No one has sought to resist democratic progress or unravel democratic processes more than the right. To say that some cultures are morally and ideologically inferior is just a subjective and ethnocentric view.
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  1371.  @markangelorgs.2773  Well if someone's arteries are clogged (for instance), that doesn't happen quickly but takes years.
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  1372. No your'e thinking of Attila the Hun.
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  1373.  @elizabethtaylor9321  *there
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  1374. To businessmen like him sport is just another money making opportunity and everything has its price.
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  1375. It's o.k in its short form 'Wilf'.
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  1376.  @hasti26  It's more complicated than that: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-palestinians-sheikh-jarrah-eviction-east-jerusalem-explained/
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  1377. Make friends of your enemies and enemies of your friends. That seems to be the Trump policy.
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  1378. It made the situation worse for her because she lost her majority and was reliant on a deal with the DUP after that.
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  1379. More pious than Alfred the Great, Edward the Confessor and Henry VI?
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  1380. If it's unlawful, it's unlawful. Why does it need more laws. Just arrest the man.
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  1381.  @stormbringer2840  I think you'd find, if you watched this particular version, that you would be immersed and forget the casting. They obviously chose her because she's a good actress and didn't want Shakespeare to be racially exclusive, but actually the casting acts as a good metaphor because Queen Margaret was distrusted by the English because she was 'foreign' and moreover from a nation that had been England's enemy for a long time. When Henry married her, as part of the contract he gave away to the French most of the English possessions in France that his ancestors had fought so hard for.
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  1382. Boris has ideas but doesn't know how to successfully put them into effect without Cummings or doesn't see it's his role to do that. Any leader has their Cummings. You can see them throughout history. Henry VIII had Thomas Wolsey, Thomas Moore and Thomas Cromwell (but look how that ended up for them).
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  1383. Oh yeah? Massively in debt and with low or stagnant growth. Public services wrecked.
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  1384. Translation: He's going to balance the economic cost against what he can or can't get away with politically.
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  1385. They would not recognise it as reality if it did.
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  1386.  @rolandrimann8788  Yes, thank goodness you don't.
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  1387.  @MrKarlyboy  Civil Servants abide by the accepted (by all parties) Civil Service Code. Under that they can't be expected to break the law. It's a bad government that expects its civil servants to break the law and they have the nerve to call themselves the party of law and order. If they didn't like the law, they had an avenue to try and change it -Parliament.
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  1388. I understood 1 in 3 was a speculation about what might happen in the future because of the likelihood of a more infectious virus.
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  1389.  @janetmoreton4607  Just do a bit of research. The British don't eat certain fish types in nearly the same quantity as Europeans do. British fishermen catch more of those types than they can sell in Britain.
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  1390. The Conservatives put party and ideology first and country last and they would not take some sensible actions because it was against their ideology, but ideology also split the party. I can't see them giving up that approach soon, as their think tanks are probably funded by the American right and they still have hardline rightists in the Conservative Party though some were ejected in the election. The fear of Reform overtaking them will keep the Conservatives anchored to rightist ideology.
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  1391. £600 million to evict 300 people whom Rwanda has no obligation to detain in Rwanda and under a deal whereby Rwanda can send an unlimited number of Rwandans to the UK - that's not a good deal for British taxpayers. Labour has already come up with a better idea. Why the Tories keep flogging this dead horse is a mystery. The Lords are trying to save us from this crap but they cannot block legislation ultimately if the Commons are determined to push it through.
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  1392. @Truth seeker. They do sometimes change shifts and have time off . They can't work 24 hours a day every day.
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  1393. Some of it pays for their office support I believe and it's probably also to try and attract good quality candidates. Ha ha.
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  1394.  @agarjakendu  Where did Nato expand eastwards towards Russia?
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  1395. Smash Mouth. You are another one who hasn't read the hundreds of whinging comments here about the casting
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  1396.  @cuteandfunnyearthlings2863  How naive that statement is. How do you know there are armed civilians or that unarmed civilians are able to distance themselves? If the army attacks a town indiscriminately, civilians of all kinds will be killed.
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  1397. Oh thanks for that. I didn't recognise Dudley Dursley.
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  1398. During lockdown and before that, in retirement, I discovered how little I need to be happy and I've saved a lot too. So much of our economy depends on consumerism and we need to find ways to employ and reward people to live without so much of it, but I fear it is very addictive for people. Psychologically they want what others have and feel deprived if they don't have it, and the corporate world keeps generating products and services for us to want.
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  1399. *Whoever
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  1400. Letters are potentially incriminating evidence. Things can be said in meetings that can't be put in letters (assuming no one's taking minutes). Anyway they all lived near each other at court
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  1401. The Tories talk as if your interests and their interests are the same, but they are talking from the perspective of the interests of the very wealthy, who benefit from deregulation and downward pressure on workers' pay and terms and conditions. Going forward there will be more deregulation including of the banks.
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  1402.  @woodentie8815  Most hospitals are in big cities. Where do you expect nurses to live? Even if they could live somewhere commutable rail fares keep going up more than inflation and rail travel is getting more unreliable.
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  1403. When the Tories came into power from 2010 they quickly reduced the civil service by over 500,000. Then they found that they did not have enough people to handle Brexit and Covid and they hired consultants and agency staff at much more expensive rates and with much less knowledge and expertise. There are people who always say reducing the civil service is some kind of benefit and that taxes are never low enough no matter how low they ever are. It's a kneejerk reaction for some political ideologists.
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  1404.  @ednorton47  Is that because our GDP shrank or perhaps because the Tories have created more poverty and need or because of spending on the war in Ukraine? What's the reason? The population is ageing so more is spent on pensions. The Attlee government was spending after WW2 when Britain was essentially broke. We certainly spent a lot on Covid but much of that went on fraudulent and overpriced contracts. The Tories also love to hire expensive consultants and that expenditure has gone up. The Tory Health and Social Care Act 2012 created a lot of new Quangos.
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  1405.  @stevepal8432  He didn't recover in 3 days. He had the virus for about 10 days I think when he self isolated. Then it got very bad (as sometimes is the pattern with that virus). Then he went into hospital and was in intensive car for 3 days - not the most serious intensive care where you are intubated on a ventilator but intensive care where you are given oxygen. It was 50/50 at one time whether he would need intubation or not, but fortunately he started to get better. Then he spent a further period at home recovering. People vary in how they are affected by the virus and how serious it gets for them. I wish people would look up the facts.
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  1406. We are just going to become a satellite of the USA instead. Parliament has already (very recently) voted to prevent the UK from blocking the import of chlorinated chicken, showing they will bend over to be rogered by the USA for a USA deal.
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  1407. They've all been checked. Only those with British passports and/or visas are been allowed in - mostly because of working with British forces.
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  1408. I notice the long held syllable at the end of your words (particularly those ending in a or er), which I think developed in London, has now spread to Scotland it seems. That is together with a downward inflection of the voice at the end of sentences, unlike the upward inflection often found in America, as though a statement was really a question. Very interesting. I also notice that Scots sometimes pronounce the word Western as Westeren. Similarly with Eastern etc and I think that comes from Gaelic origins. In Irish a vowel sound is often pronounced between consonants appearing together ( The name Sorcha for instance is pronounced Soreka in Ireland)
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  1409. What happened to Nathaniel after he went to Australia?
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  1410. Underneath the buffoonery and hail fellow well met exterior, he's quite right wing and will do nothing for the poor except rely on 'trickle down' economics, which never work. He will make it easier for the rich to get richer as he's already promised to cut tax for the higher earners if he get into office. That shows where his priorities lie.
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  1411. Now it's 1061 with 3 council results still to come.
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  1412.  @cautionfiamable  Not at all. That Hillary got 3m more votes than Trump is a fact that can be fact checked on any independent fact check site. Here is Trump saying he will negotiate a third terms because 'he is entitled to it'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmC0du_5TII Or do you think Trump is lying when he says that? There are plenty of videos of him where he declines to answer the question of whether he will accept the election result if he loses. He just says something non committal such as 'we'll see'. Roger Stone, his strategist, has advised him to declare martial law if he loses. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/roger-stone-martial-law-trump/
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  1413. I'm not surprised the employee won. It's the terms and conditions they work under that determine whether people are self-employed or an employee. It's not whether the employer tells you whether you are or not. That's always been the case. Many people don't seem to realise that. This employer thinks bringing employment law into the 21st century means removing rights that people have fought for over the centuries. His mentality is like a 'modern' Victorian.
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  1414. brumsgrub. This is why we're in the mess we're in, because most voters are mindless and some only think with their dicks.
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  1415. The Tories seem diminished and not just in numbers.
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  1416. No. They will just think how ignorant and stupid UK voters are.
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  1417.  @martingonzalez6915  Are you referring to Boris? Lol. He's almost as far from a Communist as you can get, apart from being an out and out fascist.
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  1418. @Russian Troll so Im told Not really strange. It's the well educated class whose jobs rely on connections with the EU.
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  1419.  @britishbulldog50  Not brainwashed but more likely to look up the facts rather than listening to demagogues or reading Brexit backing tabloid newspapers with rich owners. Anyway it seems you are likely to get your wish to crash out without a deal on 31 October. Good luck with that. It's only the rich that will escape the consequences and only if they don't own their own British business. Financial gamblers are already making a killing out of Brexit and that's not on the assumption that Britain will do well out of it.
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  1420. It's buggins turn.
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  1421.  @Lorrdd  At the time it was a scandal. Norfolk took a mistress who was basically a servant of his so he'd no right to look down his nose at Cromwell.
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  1422.  @hoggarththewisesmeagol8362  Don't be so silly. Such rudeness is not British.
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  1423.  @catscats50  It's her flat not his. If she asks him to go, he should go.
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  1424.  @Robert-hf6dw  No the neighbours aren't fascists. Fascists don't read 'The Guardian'. His girlfriend won't say anything of course as it makes them both look bad, but the row is on record.
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  1425. Overuse of steroids in India and high levels of diabetes are now blamed for the black fungus infections. They seem to mostly affect those who are given steroid treatment for Covid and who also have diabetes. (High use of steroids can also give people diabetes who didn't have it before) This sounds like it would be a better alternative treatment, but it's probably going to be a long time before such treatments are available in all countries.
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  1426. Because they will give a damn, if they are Tory, will they, or be able to change government policies if they are not?
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  1427. Most of the comments in this section are about the casting of the Queen and the colour of her skin. Very few are about the play itself. Don't bother reading them unless you are fixated on the former like the rest of the commenters.
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  1428. I was looking at booking a hotel recently and when I read in people's comments that you have to 'Whats App' reception, it put me off booking there (among other bad reviews).
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  1429. The Russians are the only ones that produced Novichok. The Russians became defensive and distinctly unhelpful - not the behaviour of an innocent party and there are now particular Russian suspects identified by CCTV about whom the UK is currently discussing the best way to proceed. They may ask for extradition of these individuals from Russia but Russia has committed similar crimes on UK territory before (Litvinienko murder for instance) and they refused extradition of the identified suspects then.
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  1430. @mr grumps Just because he seems a 'jolly nice chap' doesn't mean he is.
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  1431. It stands for giving good performers a chance to play Shakespeare.
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  1432.  @siddhartha4953  How many of the civilians were killed by the US and how many by the Taliban. Do those statistics exist?
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  1433.  @crapbag426  No I would not have had a 99.97chance of surviving Covid 19. First of all the survival rate is more like 98% but not for the likes of me as I have diabetes and asthma and I was also treated for cancer in 2020. As for your comment 'let that sink in'. Do you imagine I don't think about these things or weigh up the risks?
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  1434.  @vivabielsamot5828  Covid is like flu, not in its effects but to the extent that it mutates like flu, so we may need a vaccination every year to protect us. I'm old enough to take the risk on the vaccines. 'In the long term we're all dead' as someone once said. I know that Covid would kill me if I got it, and I've had every vaccine going in my life up to now and the reason our world population is 7 billion now when it flatlined for most of our evolutionary history, is down to science, which has produced medication and treatments, better sanitation and vaccinations. You can make your own decision and I'll make mine.
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  1435. So NHS staff are killing themselves looking after people how? How do you explain the excess deaths figures this year, and why are governments around the world ruining economies - for what reason? What benefit would they be getting from this 'scam'?
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  1436. Papa Bear Spaghet. You can't compare the two like that. NFL players wear massive amounts of protective gear and are built like titans. Football (soccer) players have to be very fast, with good balance and ball skills, so they don't carry so much weight and actually some of the great players like Messi are not very tall. They wear no protective gear except for shin pads, so are more vulnerable to injury from fouling etc unless there's a good referee to ensure players trying deliberately to injure others, are sent off. Some players' careers are cut short through injury. Also players have a short lived career anyway because once they lose speed in their thirties, they are dropped. It's like comparing boxers to judo experts. The skills and body build needed are not the same
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  1437. Certain words are trigger for Trump supporters, words such as 'freedom' and 'patriotism' and 'make America great again' but what do people mean by them and are they genuine? Trump is an exploiter of people.
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  1438. You weren't being offered communism. Communism is doing away with capitalism. The programme on offer was no more communist than the Labour government's programme in 1945 when they were rebuilding Britain or the kind of model you have in Scandinavian countries which come high up in the world happness index.
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  1439.  @alanbstard5584  Do you know why? Because Thatcher closed down a lot of industry there saying Britain didn't need it and she never replaced it with anything. Labour may have been in power locally but the Tories in government made sure they were powerless by vastly cutting the funding to local government and when in power the Tories always favour their own constituencies at the expense of Labour ones. Ironically Boris may throw some scraps to the north now in order to keep them voting Tory but don't expect the sort of investment that's really needed to turn things around. I also blame the Blair government. In some respects it acted like Tories in power -Tory-lite, because Blair was an admirer of Thatcher. Maybe Boris has more sense but I wonder. History doesn't allow for much hope. I don't want to be depressing though. I hope for the best for the north.
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  1440.  @leeuniverse  I don't know what 'side hustle' means but people often blame taxes when there are other underlying causes of business failure, simply because they don't like taxes and it's a convenient excuse. In the UK there have been a lot of tax cuts but whatever the tax level, there are always those (mainly business interests) who claim taxes are too high. I think for them taxes would always be 'too high' no matter what the level.
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  1441. If only she'd challenged him or run. I don't think the police were arresting people for first time minor Covid infringements at this stage, even if there had been one, which there probably hadn't in her case. They were just advising people. He relied on her trust in police and law abiding nature which makes things all the worse. If you can't trust the police, what are you to do? There was no one around her at this time it seems.
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  1442.  Gavin MacNeish  There's no such thing as true freedom in the modern world. Scotland will still be dominated by the EU.
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  1443.  @stephenball-qo7ug  Yes, and?
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  1444.  @user-tg3tj2nq6v  I have read it more than once so someone said it.
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  1445. It makes me laugh when people object to any TV programmes that they don't personally watch. Selfish or what?
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  1446.  @pamelapearse8474  ??? George Osborne's paper is The London Evening Standard. The Guardian would never have Osborne in control.
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  1447. You are referring to the Tories of course since Labour has not been in power with the opportunities for that, for 14 years.
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  1448. The vaccine 100% avoids hospitalisations though so it will save lives.
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  1449. It reminds me of the main character in 'Diary of a Nobody' whose name is Charles Pooter, but poot is also slang for fart so maybe there's a link with Mr Trump.
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  1450.  @elizabethfermor344  No, the EU just applies the rules that relate the third countries which have been the same for third countries before Brexit. Britain just voted to be a third country, but now wants to have what it had as part of the EU. Wants to have its cake and eat it. The EU is their club with their rules and the UK no longer belongs to it or pays the membership fee.
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  1451. I don't understand how this can happen. Anaesthetic usually consists of an intravenous infusion and the patient is asked to count to 10 to ensure they are out before being taken into the theatre. If done correctly no one gets to 10. Why would they use gas? Why wouldn't they be monitoring his vital signs?
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  1452. I thought they had all the cards in their hands. The EU needed us more than we needed them. So they said. Now they are getting their excuses out.
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  1453. I think this is probably one of the donors, but I don't know who.
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  1454. The irony is that the British don't eat much of the fish caught by British fishermen. Those fishermen sell it to the EU. The kind of fish we like to eat is caught by other nations' fishermen. British fishermen will also be hurt by the no deal situation.
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  1455. Also not having a massive amount of furniture in the way.
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  1456.  @KaranThakur927  Indeed.
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  1457. Is this twaddle what Piers Morgan tries to pass off as entertainment these days?
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  1458. This attitude is why we get useless people voted in as representatives. It's his job to be accountable and handle questions without flipping out about it. If he can't handle that, maybe he's in the wrong job or has something to hide. I'm sure people who voted Boris in thought he was 'a good laugh' but when chaotic government is the result it has serious consequences for real people.
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  1459.  @32446  According to the Tory press.
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  1460. Bricks are not designed as deadly weapons.
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  1461.  @immyu6566  OMG as soon as you mentioned David Icke. He's a complete loony. Listen to some proper scientists and medics who know what they are talking about and have verifiable science and research to prove it, not someone who believes in aliens and that we are ruled by lizards.
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  1462. or perhaps he could be played by an Etonian Gamer.
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  1463.  @mrmagoo756  Tell that to the victims. (Should've gone to specsavers?)
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  1464. It could be tears of relief at finding out that his anger problems have a genuine physical cause.
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  1465. Where did you get the idea that the Conservatives don't want to privatise the BBC? Many of them do want to privatise it.
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  1466. I'm sure lorry drivers earn more and don't have people's lives at stake. You have to take into account that she lives in London where rents are very high and mortgages are unaffordable on that income. Average rents in London are £1000 though it depends where you live. It's much higher in some areas and I found this via googling 'Tenants in London could end up spending 15 per cent more on rent by 2023, according to a leading property agent. Savills told the Standard it predicts rents will rise much faster than house prices over the next four years, as Brexit uncertainty, larger deposits, a reluctant buyer's market and pricey build-to-rent homes impacts on property costs.' Are nurses all to leave London? Their wages have lost about 25% in value since the Tories came into power while the cost of living has risen by 10% in 2022 alone. Many nurses are leaving the profession because they can earn more in supermarkets. That can't be right. It seems people on low wages resent more skilled and responsible jobs from being paid more, even if nurses have had to spend years studying before earning a wage and funding that study at their own expense.
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  1467.  James H  Boris would make anyone look like a genius. Yes I live in London and can directly compare Khan's time in office as Mayor with Boris's time in office as Mayor of London,
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  1468. Oh yeah. Vote for Tories who'll let you starve, then blame the BBC for collecting its licence money. The 'defunding' campaign is an attempt to censor the BBC and stop anyone who is reporting the consequences of government policies.
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  1469.  @virginiapicker  Bring in the straight jacket and the men in white coats.
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  1470. He took things for granted and didn't check for himself.
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  1471. In the Tory government, yes.
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  1472. It's not as if they are going to print any counter argument from him or present what he says fairly, but I also think he made the mistake of not caring about attacks on himself, because he was more concerned with bigger issues. However I think that was a mistake because those attacks did affect a lot of people's views about him
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  1473. Philippa Langley creates plenty of work for historians. Interesting points made in this video.
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  1474. It's the equivalent of a sportsman voting against his own team. There's a risk they they could act to try and bring about the desired result.
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  1475.  @jwright4222  Why then concoct a stupid lie about testing his eyesight? The man knows he broke his own lockdown rules while expecting everyone else to keep them - even when they could not see dying relatives or their own children.
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  1476.  @georgemorrison9280  Stick with the failing Tories then.
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  1477. Did you say that when Jacob Rees Smug was in the Cabinet?
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  1478. Apparently the Cabinet was informed but did nothing. As long as it's one of them, normal rules aren't applied.
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  1479. He is, by nationality, if he was born here, whether you like it or not
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  1480. The elite is in the Tory Party.
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  1481. If you believe the Sun.
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  1482.  @pikey_greg4630  Well when Labour produced policies to address that disparity between the rich growing ever richer and the poor growing ever poorer, people didn't vote for them, sadly. I think a people's party would just be a group of disparate individuals arguing about what to do. You need to have some shared ideas and beliefs to have some agreement about how to tackle issues and injustices.
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  1483.  Andrew C  The Tory government set up PHE as part of the NHS re-organisation in The Health and Social Care Act 2012, and it was warned at the time that the new body would not be able to cope with something like a pandemic, but as usual it didn't listen. The government decided to outsource most testing to Serco, rather than fund extra NHS capacity, and Serco subcontracted it to 29 other companies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3llpX9DVuDM&t=19s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_SvrGwQdqg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brXZU4iKhfg&t=5s
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  1484. Take a look at this https://www.private-eye.co.uk/hp-sauce I also saw an article in The Guardian which alleged that a senior official responsible for supplies had been selling equipment privately for his own profit. It was only in the paper for one day but on the front page. I saw the headline online but I forgot to buy the paper unfortunately.
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  1485. I think she knows she's a woman.
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  1486. Which goon speaks for you?
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  1487.  @bryangeake5826  Agreed.
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  1488. The French were given 100 more fishing licences. It's in the respectable media, rather than in propagada media.
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  1489.  @alexthurner43  The British wrote their constitution after WW2. It's better than our own which just evolved over time.
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  1490. What exactly will she be voting for? Does she know what Reform will do? Farage concentrates on criticism but doesn't give details on what he'd do.
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  1491. Well what about Boris? He will decide what spending on his vanity projects should be without any idea whether they will have the money to do it. He just expects people to follow whatever ideas he has whether feasible or not. It will be interesting to see the outcome. More savage cuts?
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  1492. True Englishman of the 18th century
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  1493.  @peternicho  Not as great a vocabulary or as witty as Bercow then.
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  1494. All Boris's own work. I'm looking forward to how he handles more tricky issues.
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  1495. This guy's victims did include small investors, pension funds and charities as well as rich people.
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  1496.  Samara Aldeen  I can't work out why the Tories are popular unless it's that they pander to popular prejudices and people believe the spin. They seem good at blaming others for their own mistakes and I suppose the success of the vaccine programme helped. Boris sending gunboats to Jersey. I'm sure they love that and it stirs their sense of patriotism even though it's a futile gesture. No one's going to start a war with France in this day and age. The popularity of a local candidate can sometimes affect the result also.
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  1497. A 15% increase from a low base, after a larger drop, isn't near getting back to 'normal'. The amount depends what the starting figure for the calculation is. 15% of £1,000,000 is £150,000 . 15% of £1 is 15p
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  1498. I'm sure there will be a flood of Americans wishing to live there then.
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  1499. Quite the contrary, she's risked her career for the sake of saving democracy from dictatorships and coups. How can people still want a dictator in charge that only wants the position for self interest, - money and the immunity from prosecution for any financial crimes.
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  1500. Capitalism without regulation and a welfare state (both socialist ideas) just leads to exploitation and corruption. Democratic socialism is different from pure socialism and most Scandinavian countries that are high up on the happiness index are social democracies. That's what we need.
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  1501. Will the Tories split before Brexit?
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  1502. Nothing in life is risk free. It's a question of understanding relative risks before making decisions. Practically every prescribed medicine will have a list of serious/rare side effects, but people still take them and you don't see headlines or videos made about the few people who experience the rare/serious side effects.
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  1503. Boris pronouncing vaccines in the American way, Vacceeens. The emphasis is meant to be on the Vac not the cines.
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  1504. Happy Covid day.
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  1505.  @josephmurray4084  Reflecting much internal thoughts through facial expressions but in a more subtle naturalistic way. Perhaps.
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  1506.  @datgrrl_official  No it's not. British is officially and legally the nationality. Britain is a nation of nations . Look at your passport if you have one. It will be British. It's silly to get hysterical over such terms.
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  1507. She sounds rather breathless. I remember seeing some videos of her, not long before she stepped down, where people speculated that she was ill, as she seemed to be shaking in public.
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  1508.  @Rachel-pf4cj  What in your medieval mindset connects this statement to Covid 19? We've evolved to explain things in terms of science now - not superstition.
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  1509.  Jon Coxon  Eh? He has accepted the vote and says he is not intending to take us back into the EU.
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  1510.  @gavinbissell8847  They select them to be representative, so they say. I'm not sure how they do it though. Perhaps they rely on people's honesty in declaring their political affiliations or no affiliations. They advertise the phone number and other contact details for members of the public to request tickets.
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  1511. He'd better have a costed plan to deliver saying where the money is coming from, or there could be another Truss type economic crash in the offing with further interest rate rises and a fall in the value of the pound.
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  1512. It's about what's being pumped out of the cars. That's less pollution now.
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  1513. There never was going to be a deal that pleased everyone. The EU would not allow it. It was always going to be a compromise. It's either compromise or no deal. That's the only choice we'll ever get.
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  1514. Were the cops kneeling in fear? Who knows why they were kneeling? The cop regretting it is providing a justification after the fact, probably because he faced a ton of criticism from his fellow cops. It's not clear that his words can be taken at face value. He probably wants to avoid being ostracised by his fellow cops which would make his working life difficult.
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  1515. It will be very difficult for Labour, given the state of things, but I think they'd want to try and set the economy on the right track and help those in need more. However the newspapers which are mostly Tory supporting will give no quarter to the Labour Party in the way they do to The Tories. The economy is so wrecked it will take time to turn it around and in that time the Tories will be constantly on the attack and the voters may expect instant relief. It's much easier to be in opposition than to be in government.
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  1516. He is using ANY excuse for tariffs. It's illegal in WTO, terms but there's an exception for 'security reasons' so he's saying he's doing it for 'security reasons' which is ridiculous in relation to countries like Canada. What possible security threat is Canada?
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  1517. Taxpayers are not really made poorer overall by all the measures, only the wealthier ones but they won't be poor.
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  1518. No we didn't manage well enough in Britain before 1948.
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  1519.  @domefford864  Yes things were different under Labour. It's the Tories who have cut local council central grants by huge amounts since 2010 forcing councils to close many local services that helped local people (including youth services which is the sector this guy worked in). The last Labour government on the other hand introduced new schemes including the 'Sure Start' scheme, to give children under school age the opportunity to be a ready for school as their wealthier peers. Since the Tories came to power, Sure Start has had its budget cut by two thirds and more than 500 centres have closed. More children than ever now rely on food banks in order to be fed.
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  1520.  @Sal19732  The word is losing not loosing. The most ignorant comments come from the most ignorant people.
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  1521. That's because the Tories created a split in purchasers and providers and introduced the contracting system between the two which requires more managers and accountants to input and manage these contracts.They don't spend more money on managers than medical need though. That's not true. The main thing that people receive in hospital is treatment from doctors and nurses. Staff costs are (or were) 70% of NHS costs. It might be a bit less now because so much money goes on paying for expensive PFI schemes. Other costs are on drugs, equipment, building and equipment maintenance, and cleaning etc.
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  1522. What are you blathering on about?
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  1523. 10 years should be plenty of time for Boris to mess up the economy, ensure workers have few rights, and generally piss everyone off.
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  1524.  @jeanlawley6483  * a funny thing
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  1525. If you ever watched an interview with him, he's a motormouth who spews lies and nastiness and he talks over people and never listens or properly answers any questions put to him.
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  1526.  @jurgen8084  Yes we all die of something but Covid is one of those things that can kill or speed up death for those with chronic conditions or weak immune systems and our immune systems do get weaker as we age. They obviously think developing a vaccine fast is worth the risk. So far the only contra-indications for the vaccine are that those with allergies are advised to hold off taking it.
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  1527.  @theambiguoustruth8167  Sure. He told them what they wanted to hear even though he admitted privately that it wasn't true.
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  1528. *Walliams
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  1529. The fact that they are not abashed by the consequences of their actions makes me think this is their plot.
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  1530. It's an important part of history and as someone said on the radio this morning, a week before this interview she visited journalist Max Hastings (who is not connected with the BBC) and told him the same things.
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  1531. Irrelevant or what?
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  1532. Her hand is shaking.
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  1533. And Tom Scholar was removed from his post as Permanent Secretary at the Treasury by Kwasi Kwarteng in September.
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  1534. As far as I'm aware he abides by the law unlike Suella Braverman who has contempt for the law and for British democratic procedures even though she is as lawyer herself.
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  1535.  @stevekaczynski3793  Agreed.
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  1536.  Bub Zilla  What P.M hasn't engaged in multiple and serial adultery? I'm so looking forward to seeing this couple on the steps of number 10.
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  1537. Some other clowns include Matt Hancock, Dominic Raab, Suella Braverman, Jacob Rees Mogg. None of them grown up or serious and competent politicians.
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  1538.  @thebffs9755  It's funny hearing people with poor grammar criticise on 'chavs'. It's 'Mogg's' and taxpayer's' and 'their benefits' not 'there benefits'.
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  1539.  @thebffs9755  Good for you
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  1540. There seem to be an awful lot of 'actors' in the Reform party then.
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  1541.  @TheDJKILLIN He said in the video that he was visiting different poor communities, whether a black community in Lowndes, a latino community, or a white community in Virginia.
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  1542. When I was 14, me and my friends could all afford to buy tickets and go and see matches. I even went to see a lot of away matches. Ticket prices are unaffordable for most ordinary people now, or they can't afford to bring their families along to see matches.
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  1543. It reminds me of 'The Diary of a Nobody'. The main character, Charles Pooter, has a wife called Carrie and friends called Cummings and Gowing and makes a joke about Gowing's always coming and Cummings is always going. Cummings and Gowing do irritate Pooter at times though.
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  1544. Only in the USA is going for a walk seen as weird.
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  1545. Isn't that meant to represent the Iron throne?
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  1546.  @kristycampbell5986  I don't read links from people who use profanities. It's perfectly clear what I'm saying if you've been watching the committee evidence from Trump's own aides.
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  1547.  @joemckibben7757  Egbert no bacon?
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  1548.  @theintrepiddroner6152  Also Russia coming up fast.
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  1549. It's sad that he somehow expects Brexit to be a good thing for him, rather than realising it will take away opportunities for him
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  1550. Egocentric
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  1551.  Leroy Jenkins v3.0  The EU looks to have more life in it than Brexit Britain.
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  1552.  @DW14974  And your scientific and medical qualifications are?
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  1553. @Bob Marley *their bags...their cars. It's funny how those who think they know better than the scientists and medics don't even know their own language.
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  1554.  @deanthorpe1684  I don't think you're sorry at all about what you said, and I never said you could enforce it. You can go and boil your head but remember I can't enforce that.
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  1555. Just declaring anything you don't like to be communism is ignorant.
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  1556.  @paul756uk2  Not so. It's leading us more towards fascism than communism. You're getting your extremes muddled up. I don't see anyone in the Tory party anywhere near proposing to share the capital wealth of the country or to take it over on behalf of the country do you? They are more maniacs for privatising everything.
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  1557.  @greeny202ab  How will the EU be an economic powerhouse in 10 years time? Can you map that out for us please. It often takes as much as 10 years to agree a trade deal. Protectionism and protectionist trade blocks are the trend in a globalised world, as the only way to protect living standards and other standards including worker's rights. The vision for the UK becoming a 'powerhouse' is a vision of us becoming like Singapore but that will mean reducing worker's rights so capital can exploit workers more. Even so, we have competitors around us who are not going to stand by while we become this 'powerhouse'. They will be doing all they can to undermine us. Also I wouldn't trust the Tories when they talk about a 'powerhouse'. They've been promising for some years that there would be a northern powerhouse in Britain, but they've done naff all about that. The only thing the Tories and their backers really care about is being able to increase profits and reduce taxes for the wealthy, the corporations and financial speculators and keep allowing them to avoid tax through offshore tax havens and allow money obtained through crime to be laundered through Britain. We will become another tax haven but our citizens will become second class with fewer rights, and smaller public services, (or badly run privatised ones). Life will not get easier for those who place their hope in Brexit.People need to vote here and now for a party that will improve their living standards - not for some pie in the sky promises about a post Brexit glorious future based on no evidence at all. Even if we did succeed outside of the EU, do you think the Tories are the party to allow any wealth created to be fairly shared? The gap between rich and poor will continue to grow with more people becoming poor - just like the USA.
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  1558. The government website (gov.uk) states that 'Most lead tenants of households with a new social letting in 2022/23 were UK nationals (90%, or 226,000 lead tenants)'
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  1559. Any politician that dares to oversee the demise of the NHS will be committing political suicide, and they know it.
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  1560. *working? Boris doesn't know the meaning of that word.
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  1561. *working? Boris doesn't know the meaning of that word. Working is for the little people with little wages.
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  1562.  @Fireglo  Boris has worked hard ? hahahahha. I don't think he knows the meaning of the words. He may be 'highly educated' but he's still ignorant and stupid in many practical ways. In the past he said he thought it was 'appalling that 50% of school pupils scored below average marks'. He's no good at understanding statistics is he? And even when he has facts at his fingertips he plays fast and loose with them and just lies when it suits him. What you say about pay isn't the full story either. There are plenty of graduates who can't get jobs with decent pay - many on a minimum wage. I do remember when work paid enough to live on even if it was basic. That's not the case now in the gig economy we have which the Tories like to boast about and take the credit for.
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  1563.  @ByronHawk  You have to allow for different tastes.
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  1564.  @Jay_Johnson  And yet we in 'Singapore on Thames' as you call it, voted, on the whole, to Remain in the EU.
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  1565.  @bryangeake5826  The men in the Tory Party pulling the strings behind the scenes, in the 1922 committee included the ERG group who would not have tolerated any Tory leader who did not come out with a hard Brexit, even though the Leave literature before the Referendum implied that it would be a soft Brexit.
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  1566. *should've
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  1567.  @infinitelink  I'm not sure which comment of mine you are responding to. (There are 89 comments to look through now) but I don't disagree with most of what you say what you say. (I don't understand the 'Maria from Italy' comment since their early roots are not Italian but Iberian) It doesn't change history though and it is also the norm for invaded and conquered people to want overthrow oppressive regimes or gain independence, which a lot of the British Empire colonies did.
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  1568. Loz Coleman. You do know Marx was Jewish?
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  1569. I think he has the kind of 'liberal' economic views that Boris has, and probably has the ambition that means he'll do what he's told by number 10. If Johnson is going to dictate spending and then expect the Chancellor to take the flak by 'balancing the books', we could either be in for more savage cuts or a chaotic economy.
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  1570.  @eddiecatflap3838  Because the infrastructure has been neglected. It's not as if those people all ended up in one place. The same could happen if the birth rate went up.
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  1571. @FuckILoveYouTubby Give up reading the Tory tabloids. They're rotting your brain.
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  1572. Has enough what? Tell that to the Covid virus.
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  1573. She should try borrowing from a bank without explaining how and when she will pay back the loan. I think that would aid her understanding as to why her economic policy went down badly in the markets. To understand the reaction to other part of her policy she should try giving a gift to a friend and then kicking them in the shins and wondering why they are focusing on the kicks instead of the gift, when they've also found out even the gift doesn't come free and they will have to pay for it in the longer run.
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  1574.  @oddsandwindsocks5905  That may be so now, but not 50 years ago.
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  1575.  @mikem9309  That's pathetic.
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  1576.  @rogerbennett9641  Thatcher was the one who freed up finances so that the city and the rich could take their money and investments out of the country as they wished and this caused much instability and also contributed to globalisation of capitalism so that countries are less able to shield themselves from the effects of global storms and recessions. Blair was a great admirer of Thatcher (not really Labour or socialist at all - he removed the socialist clause 4 from Labour's constitution) and he followed her line to a considerable degree. She started the outsourcing and privatisation of public services and her successors including Blair carried it on. She only ever cared about benefitting her family and herself but she sold it as 'patriotism'. While Denis had shares in South Africa, she supported apartheid South Africa. She thought manufacturing didn't matter and it didn't matter if Britain lost her industries or had them taken over by foreign multi-nationals. The Germans knew better than that. Here's an interesting snippet on Churchill's economic competency, by the way (16:56 to 17:30) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhSg9X3q2gc&t=2376s
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  1577. If this was before 1963, Nigeria was part of the British Empire so technically, as Head of the British Empire she was his overlord.
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  1578.  @johnbobson1557  They've not been formally crowned. She has, like it or not.
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  1579. This was the guy that gloated when she went to prison. 'Brilliant' he said in an email.
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  1580. You may like that kind of treatment. I would not want to be in such a hospital. If I was very ill, I'd want the care and comfort of other human beings.
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  1581.  @paulungureanu937  Trump has brought those cases to court and they've been thrown out because he presented no evidence of fraud to back up his allegations. Just because Trump says stuff, doesn't mean it's true. Trump often just says whatever he thinks will work for him regardless of whether it's true or not. I have no problem in conceding if the authorities can show how they conducted the proceedings and if there's no evidence of fraud and there would have to be evidence of significant fraud for Trump to overturn Biden's lead. No such evidence has been presented to the courts. I can accept losing when I lose. I don't think Trump can but also he's scared of what will happen to him when he leaves office because of all the charges against him. He can't stay in office forever though - not unless he dismantles or ignores the constitution. He's going to have to face life outside of the White House sooner or later.
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  1582. It's patronising language.
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  1583. A Man called Jim. She has more brain cells in her little finger than you do in your entire head. German economic strength and success made her leader as well as her political nous and her political staying power. As for being old, it's better than being a young fool.
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  1584. No. It's not London that has allowed them in. London is not border control. It's a city. You have to look to border control, the police, MI5 and MI6 doing their job.
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  1585. It already sounds different in the North and South of England. Southerners and Northerners make fun of each other's pronunciation (especially at football matches) - they mimic each other as follows "fook" ( a slightly elongated u - North) and "fack" ( almost like a short a) South.
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  1586. Does it matter? He can explain the Universe.
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  1587. spiro. Did you not read the comments? I'm not going to repeat myself.
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  1588. +London Para You're welcome. She also says "You take the high road and I'll take the low road" in a Scottish accent, which is a line from a traditional Scottish song and she finishes by quoting a sonnet by Shakespeare."
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  1589. *to sing
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  1590. +TheSpeedyLime When he was young he seemed very shy and he's probably naturally quite a private person.. I think he still has that underneath and it seems like he's had a few drinks to give him courage "to perform" but it also makes him seem slow in his responses.
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  1591. Rupert Murdoch supports the SNP in Scotland and Conservatives in England. This is because he wants to keep Labour out and for the Conservatives to succeed. Scotland please don't let this happen.
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  1592. I'd prefer an honest brexit. As I understand it we can't stay in the single market or even the customs union and at the same time create trade deals with the rest of the world, but if we don't stay in the customs union it will really mess up our economy with tariffs and bureaucracy. For instance they were explaining on the radio today how milk from NI goes across the border to the Republic, is processed there and returned for sale in NI. This is a seamless process at the moment. If we leave the the customs union, paperwork and tariffs would apply and the contents of every lorry would be held up for several hours while everything inside was checked. That's just one small example of the difficulties. So I think people need to be clear about the choices, the implications for British trade in each choice and then have the right to choose - in or out of the customs union - in or out of the single market. The politicians aren't setting the choices out clearly with the pros and cons for people to consider. They are glossing over things and being vague. Personally I think we're better staying in the customs union because most of our trade is with near neighbours in Ireland, Scotland and Europe. It will hit our economy hard if we come out and those who think they've been left behind will be left even further behind.
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  1593. +Samantha W You're with the ganster over Merkel? Great judgement you have.
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  1594. He didn't say anything bad. He just acknowledged that this sort of thing is happening more now in cities.
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  1595. Why does he read like he's just learned how to do it or he thinks his audience is dim?
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  1596. But she died having plastic surgery, and the more surgery, the more plastic people look.
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  1597.  @ScottD_  Thanks, I looked it up. It looked like a rather botched set of routine procedures with the medics not paying much attention to her vital signs. She suffered a cardiac arrest and was revived but died a week later.
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  1598.  @ramsey633  But thankfully not so many racists.
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  1599. It's not a laugh track.
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  1600.  @steffanhoffmann8937  What is?
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  1601. Adarcus ? Richard was already the King when he drew the sword.
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  1602. Cyril Sneer. How aptly you have named yourself. How do you know he was obese and feckless when he was working? The cheapest food is full of fat and sugar because those are cheap ingredients, but they make people fat if they live on a diet like that for too long.
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  1603. It's shameful that, in a wealthy society, people should ever have had to die from treatable conditions.
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  1604. According to the newspapers, Tories would be voted in again if an election was held now, even though they are making a hash of Brexit. Some people are stuck in Groundhog Day.
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  1605. TheDogonebad The right always say the BBC is left wing and the left say it's right wing so that's a good testimony that it does try to be as objective as it can given that it's funding comes from the government (a right wing one at the moment).
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  1606. TheDogonebad  You are right, though funding has to be approved by Parliament and some additional funding is provided by the Department of work and pensions to compensate for pensioners over 75 who get their licences free. I disagree with you. It's not a fact that the BBC is left wing. It's an opinion of right wingers who only want right wing views to be expressed on T.V. which is not at all democratic.
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  1607. TheDogonebad That's not true. It's been headline news for days and days including the ethnicity.  I heard it myself as did millions in the U.K. Where are you getting this inaccurate information from? Fox News? Murdoch wants to destroy the BBC so there is no channel that will maintain high standards and he can flood the TV channel with his cheap inaccurate crap.
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  1608. He's a bit shy it seems, and that can make someone look a bit untrustworthy but he's actually a very genuine guy.
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  1609. Donald Trump's expression is like that of a little kid struggling to do a poo.
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  1610. * woman not women. Women is the plural.
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  1611. He's not speaking the truth. Syria did gas its own opposition rebels.
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  1612. Easy to say, but he can't even deal with much lesser issues today.
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  1613. No, they were fighting to keep Britain free.
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  1614. Abolishing tuition fees , not tuition!
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  1615. The narrator means an alternative scenario where the victor is Richard III (instead of Henry VII), but instead she refers to the alternative victor as Henry III, (managing to mix up Richard III with Henry VII).
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  1616. *did sing
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  1617. Johnny Stugotts. One good thing about London is that the "pig ignorant" tend not to like it and leave.
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  1618. Hans Tun. Everyone's a winner!
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  1619. gog *descent. Decent is something else.
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  1620. Louiee. You can find food from all over the world in London. It's not bland.
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  1621. *Perfumed ponce
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  1622. It's said sometimes on British sitcoms where they have to be careful with language before the watershed.
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  1623. Glenda Jackson has just been cast to play the lead in King Lear and I'm sure she will be wonderful. I recently heard her on the radio playing a character in stories by Emile Zola and her voice has lost none of it's subtlety and power. These plays have been played endless times and a twist on the character and casting, from time to time, just adds to the depth, power and variety.
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  1624. +smcg People aren't responsible for being on low wages because the DWP system forces them to take any job they are offered or lose unemployment benefit. The people responsible for low wages are employers. This is a result of global capitalism where capital and investment often goes where labour is cheapest. Jeremy Hunt said we should all be prepared to work as hard as the Chinese but they have such poor working conditions that many of them were jumping out of tall buildings not long ago. The way forward is to invest in British inventions and skills and technology so we can offer something that people want that isn't offered more cheaply elsewhere but that involves investment by banks and companies, neither of whom will take risks or invest for the longer term. They think in terms of short term profits only. Government could create an investment vehicle but this government is content to leave everything to the vagaries of the market, and blame the poor for their own predicament.
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  1625.  @mrbritannia3833  It's called 'civilisation'.
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  1626.  robert hicks  Fresh water may dry up in many areas of the world. Refugees seeking water will look to other sources which will also be oversubscribed. This may cause conflict. Also food shortages in some areas will worsen. O.K don't listen to any warnings or the vast majority of scientists. It's your funeral, or that of your descendants.
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  1627.  robert hicks  Liberals aren't usually the ones to start wars. They are tolerant. It's the military industrial complex that wants war - all that lovely profit.
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  1628. Don't forget, withdrawing from the EU means Brits with holiday homes there will be restricted to 90 day stays, and the blue passports are made in France.
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  1629. @Dearly Diane Sorry, I have heard people say such things in all seriousness, so I didn't know you were kidding.
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  1630.  @commiehunter7964  You lack vocabulary and have no knowledge of history or politics it seems since the Nazis were the ones for suppressing any opposition - just like Boris seems to want to do. The BBC has an educational remit. You might find that useful for yourself.
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  1631. * It's spelt 'semitic' not 'semetic'
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  1632.  @rickknight3823  Technocrat? People criticise Labour for being thick. I don't see it. I think they will listen to experts. The Tories had experts if they wanted to listen to them but they never did. Too much arrogance , ego and hubris for that.
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  1633. *Definitely learn to spell definitely.
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  1634. As Boris would say.
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  1635. It wasn't her house. She was visiting as she wanted to see her 11 year old grandson. It was her grandson who ran out and raised the alarm.
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  1636. It strikes me that if large numbers of people challenged this, the prisons would be overwhelmed and also the police. This would not only be unsustainable but a huge embarrassment to the government. Priti Patel's record shows she is pretty clueless at how to achieve things. (I'm not sure why you are pronouncing her name with an l at the end. It's an i so it's pronounced like pretty, though what she is doing is the opposite of pretty).
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  1637. It's funny that she's identifying her predicament with that of the oppressed. In the UK the Tories are the oppressors not the oppressed and the EU actually gives workers rights that right wing Tories want to take away. She was in the Tory party and the Brexit party is no better. It's even more right wing
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  1638. It is clever and original to have woven so many different themes into a book at so many different levels and at a time when it would have been startlingly unusual, and he must have amazing knowledge to have done that.
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  1639. People voted for him because his policies for London were preferred to those of his opponents.
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  1640.  @laurejon  It surprises me that you say that about the EU. The EU has led the world in trying to get international protocols to cut carbon emissions and has followed agreements and more stringent rules to save the environment than other continents or trading blocks. Of course they could do more. The whole world could do more. America and emerging economies in Asia, such as China are big polluters too.
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  1641. Unfortunately people will still call it fake or propaganda. There are none so blind as those that will not see.
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  1642. He's getting state of the art treatment. I hope this doesn't lead him to minimise the seriousness of the virus, when he recovers.
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  1643. I think 'the Lady doth protest too much, methinks' is meant to convey the idea that she's not convincing in protesting her innocence. Her protests don't ring true.
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  1644.  charlie cheeseface  I didn't study history at University - only up to A level and I just learn about it through reading otherwise because I'm interested. You've decided that I'm elitist because of my interests? I grew up in a working class family. We have more than a couple of friends in France and that's through my husband having spent a year there in his University days. I am currently learning a lot about US history through an online site. I don't think we were 'dominated' by the EU. That's the line governments spin to get out of criticism for things which are their own fault, due to their own decisions. Actually all of our UK governments over time have initiated or voted for 98% of EU directives and I've yet to hear anyone point out one that was harmful to us. The UK government, even within the EU, controlled 99% of its spending and in addition its citizens benefited from lots of aspects of being within the EU. It makes me laugh when those against the EU suddenly appeal against UK court rulings by taking their case to the EU court of Human Rights. EU requirements are not 'perfect' but they protect us against dangerous chemicals and unsafe food production and practices and also enviromnental exploitation and they maintain minimum standards of workers rights. I would not want to be without those. Even if you think I'm 'elitist' for whatever reason, it's certainly the non elites who will suffer more outside of the EU. The elites can switch their investments around the world and avoid tax. They will profit from leaving. Perhaps you are one of those? The workers will be ripe for exploitation by them, with fewer protections.
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  1645.  charlie cheeseface  I'm aware of the gig economy. My daughter was working on zero hours contracts and one of her employers was so bad that they made BBC headlines. I am protected to the extent that I am retired, so I'm not working in it. The homeless on our streets are the responsibility of our government, not the EU as is the gig economy, because people working in the gig economy are often not classed as employees but self employed - sometimes that's a false classification, but it's up to our government to tackle it, and if they are not tackling it within the EU, do you really think they will tackle it any better outside of the EU? When you think of how much they are coughing up to spend on the Coronavirus epidemic now, they could easily have tackled homelessness before now if they'd wanted to. I am due to have a cancer operation soon. I don't know if it will go ahead or how safe I would be in a hospital.
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  1646.  charlie cheeseface  I can't stop you dreaming your dreams but almost the opposite of what you believe is true and if you think manufacturing will do well under a hard (no deal) Brexit, I suggest you listen to the pro Brexit economist, Patrick Minford, that Jacob Rees-Mogg is always quoting in support of Brexit. Minford acknowledges that under a hard Brexit, British manufacturing and farming is likely to suffer badly if not die out, but he doesn't think that matters because we can import everything from countries at cheaper prices, because in those countries, labour is cheaper and has less protection and animal and environmental welfare is not a consideration, but we see already the effects of not having our own manufacturing industry as it's not too healthy at the moment either (Thatcher said we didn't need it, remember?). Recently the NHS had to place a bulk order for Coronavirus masks with a French company but they didn't get them because the French government comandeered the masks for use in France. I'm not going to debate with you any more because it seems you have a lot to learn and you are going to have to learn it the hard way, through future experience, because you don't believe what I am saying even though I've done research on this and you have not. Good luck. P.S My daughter was not 'fully supported ' by me while on her zero hours contract.
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  1647.  charlie cheeseface  I'm not saying we don't need manufacturing you idiot. I believe we do need it. It was the hard Brexiteer economist Patrick Minford who said we didn't need it. Do you read anything properly and do you understand anything you read?
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  1648.  charlie cheeseface  Yes they are because it's harder for them to achieve it. I also have a degree but not in French or History.
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  1649. You'd know that if you lived in London. They are bikes Boris Johnson (when he was Mayor of London) introduced all over London for people to use for a small flat fee.
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  1650.  @specialized500  Exactly so. It's that sort of ignorance I was pointing out.
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  1651.  @seyley2901  Do you not know who Kemi Badenoch is? Lucky you.
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  1652. The amount of effort it takes to worm out a 'yes' or 'no' answer is something to behold.
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  1653. The UK which is incapable of helping itself since it is governed by incompetents.
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  1654.  @AllanHinde-mb2pr  I did. I voted for Khan
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  1655. He's keeping his distance these days and blaming everyone else.
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  1656. Not as bad as Johnson refusing to engage with Parliament but announcing new policies to the media with no chance for voters representatives to have their say as those new policies are being announced.
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  1657. Philip Green is keeping his money to himself as well as the money that properly belongs in the pension fund for his ex employees.
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  1658. The government plans to privatise channel 4 as it doesn't like hearing the truth.
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  1659.  @musiconair  Never mind. You might be able to afford some under a Labour government.
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  1660. If they treat you - normally they want some payment up front, and if you survive, then you might live to experience the penal system I suppose. It's the American Dream.
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  1661. It depends on people's behaviour which is hard to predict.
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  1662.  @KernowDamo  In the current issue of Private Eye Magazine (no 1588 ending 5 Jan 2023). It has a regular section called 'Keeping the Lights On'. Ofgem is quoted as just having announced they are 'not proceeding with our earlier proposals to ringfence customers credit balances'. The Magazine comments 'Without ringfencing, if the supplier goes down it it can take customers' advance payments with it, as has happened'.
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  1663. China regards democracy as a crime. That tells you everything about China.
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  1664. There are plenty of videos and channels attacking China's handling of the Covid 19 virus. You can easily find them on youtube, but that shouldn't let Trump off the hook for his own failures in the USA. He is President of the USA not Xi Jinping. Trump prefers 'Trumpcare' to 'Obamacare'. 'Trumpcare' involves looking after Donald Trump and the profits of his corporate cronies.
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  1665. There are different types of flexible contracts some where people can chose their hours and others where they can't and may find they have no hours at all at times. I think this discussion is muddling the two things up. Zero hours contracts are highly risky and the risk is all on the employee not the employer. Also if you have no control over your hours you can't plan your life. You can't be sure of picking children up from school or what days off you might have in future, so you can't plan for any time off.
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  1666. Not seriously. It was meant to be a joke (not a very good one).
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  1667. They will be empty of general patients whose treatments have been postponed while the staff are diverted to deal with Covid patients but Covid patients are normally treated in designated quarantined hospitals or wards to avoid contaminating all of the hospitals or wards.
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  1668.  @LeoOwnsWwe  He can't because that's the territory the Tories have chosen to fight him on. They don't have many other weapons in their armoury.
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  1669. Tories had morals. It was Bolivia that had Morales (Evo Morales)
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  1670.  @milaarucan1116  Now he's the super spreader. Way to go.
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  1671. That would be good if true because pay goes up in real terms under Labour government and Blair put more money into the NHS and achieved better outcomes for patients and the lowest ever waiting lists.
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  1672.  @lennylaa1686  You seem entirely unaware of the global meltdown in the banking sector, during Brown's time in office, caused by sub prime mortgage debt in the US which international banks took a share of. This affected many banks and many countries. The UK was forced to spend money to prop up British banks in order to preserve people's savings as well as shoring up confidence in the global banking system in order to save international capitalism from collapse. Brown persuaded other countries to do the same. This was a result of too light regulation of the banks but at the time the Tories were pressing for even lighter regulation.
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  1673. He talks about the EU as if it is 'other' and nothing to do with the UK. The EU didn't 'inveigle itself'. The UK as a member proposed and/or agreed with over 90% of EU directives. The process of Brexit was made more difficult because the UK didn't know and couldn't say what it wanted from Brexit apart from unavailable Unicorns. The UK gave away to the EU, £7bn of UK cash that was sitting in a EU account, without the EU even asking for that.
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  1674. Whether it's terror related depends on the motive, whether political or not, otherwise all violence would be classed as terrorism.
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  1675.  @elterrifico9522  Yet strangely with a Welsh forname, Ioan.
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  1676.  @jimmypa100  I understand you have to believe it's lies because you are fearful, but the number of excess deaths this year demonstrates it's not lies.
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  1677.  @peterwoodhead2569  Maybe the guy should consult you on the 'simple way round' his problems. It's not the EU being difficult. The EU was set up to protect its market from outside global competition and preserve standards, so it has rules for members and different terms and conditions for outside countries (third party rules). These rules have not changed since we Brexited. They were in place beforehand. We just voted to become a third party, outside of the EU, subject to third party rules. In fact the EU did give us some concession as the withdrawal agreement we have with them means we avoid paying tariffs on traded goods. Brexit is causing problems. Our growth rates are now the lowest in Europe apart from Russia. We are now in recession. The forecast for the next 2 years is bad with no guarantee of improvement beyond that. No one can really point to any benefits from Brexit or any detriments from being in the EU. In the EU the UK created or voted for around 99% of EU directives. The only ones 'suffering' were the very wealthy Tory lobbyists who were about to have tax loopholes and fraud loopholes closed off.
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  1678. This isn't a historical movie. It's a Shakespeare play. Shakespeare played around with historical facts and in modern times people have payed around with Shakespeare plays. I don't think this casting is for PC reasons. She's good and merits the part.
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  1679. She just wanted to make sure Mary included all the funny bits.
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  1680.  Jon Cocks  That's because there is a delay in effect. People infected before the lockdown may not show symptoms for 5 days and in that time they can infect a lot of other people. There may also be people who have such mild symptoms that they are not aware they have the virus and infect a lot of other people. If each person infects 2.5 other people as in virus spread modelling, a huge number of people can be infected before lockdown and the cases will continue to rise for a while after lockdown.
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  1681.  @MichaelJ44  Name one example then.
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  1682.  @NobbingNobby  Careful. That's actually a libellous statement since she's been cleared of those allegations.
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  1683. Richard Tice in a previous interview showed he didn't understand how Brexit worked.
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  1684.  @gc4575  Yes they are a right in any decent civilised society and especially in a rich western one where 1% of the population now owns as much as 70% of the rest of the population together.
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  1685. The traditional left position on the EU only works if you have Labour governments in the UK and then only in part. However as Tory governments are the norm in the UK, coming out of the EU just gives them the opportunity to demolish workers rights.
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  1686. We don't know yet that Covid will be gone. If the virus mutates, like the flu virus, we might need vaccines each year.
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  1687. @The Lone G Only 4,000 intensive care beds though.
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  1688.  Simon Tide  She's not ordering Trump either and my comment was in response to Bob Smith. What's it got to do with you?
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  1689. I couldn't watch someone who said they would break down several feeries regarding de Queen's deaf.
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  1690. Which news is 'non-filtered'?
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  1691. It's probably a partial truth. Women will probably be allowed to study but only study religion.
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  1692. That's for the local party members and the local voters to decide. Why should she stand aside? Her majority there is over 30,000.
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  1693.  @sumitchandan6724  Leave sexism out of a cat story, why can't you?
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  1694. Shaun Bailey is the guy who was having a go at Sadiq Khan in the GLA over Khan's proposal to increase stop and search to combat knife crime. Bailey inferred it was a racist policy. Then when he decided to stand for London Mayor, Bailey did a U turn on that as he realised his stance wasn't popular. He's an ambitious opportunist and basically he just tows the line of the government in order to get on, and throws dirt at opponents by smearing with false information.
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  1695. They just aren't reporting other deaths much in the media. Deaths don't normally get reported unless there's a pandemic. ONS collect all the figures though. If you wanted to know you could look them up. They have reported other deaths on sky though.
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  1696.  Infinity Stones  Leave off the 'et'. He destroys any culture. He has no culture.
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  1697.  @simongreaves9465  What message, to ignore the word Brexit when it doesn't suit the government for people to know the consequences of it?
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  1698. Not at all. Only in the opinion of bigoted ignorant outsiders who keep voting Tory or even worse, Reform.
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  1699.  @dod2304  *affected
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  1700.  @jcee2259  So not a UK experience.
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  1701.  @pm2886  Family and friends may not want to share or have room for adult offspring. Friends may have their own families and singletons not want to marry random strangers.
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  1702.  @John-Maldonado  Only a bit sore in my arm but nothing significant. I did have some headaches but not very painful ones.
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  1703.  @stephenhunter70  No vaccine is 100% effective but vaccines have reduced serious symptoms, hospital admissions and deaths. There is some associated evidence of reduction in transmission of infections but not to a large extent. Many more people suffer with serious and long term after effects of Covid and vaccines can help reduce the risk of those. There is no single 100% remedy though.
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  1704.  @romanhoax9014  Take law and order. The Tories say they are a party of law and order but they made massive cuts to the police budget resulting in a loss of 20,000 police officers since they came to power in 2010. They are only just now starting to restore some of those cuts and they made 80% cuts in central grants to local councils (which used to be a large part of their funding) since 2010. If the Tories believe in the nation state, they've a funny was of showing it. When Covid was taking off here they never shut down air travel to stop it getting a hold, nor did they test travellers coming by air to the UK. They'd started to do some of this more recently, closing the stable door after the horse has bolted but even now it's not watertight. As for personal responsibility, the Labour Party does believe in helping the weakest and most vulnerable. If you were to have a health emergency in the street, for instance, would it be helpful for someone to shout that you should take personal responsibility or would you hope they might help you or call for some help?
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  1705.  @vadimgolub8605  He knows he can't really speak freely, but he is also proud of his country and doesn't like to criticise it.
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  1706. Why are they nearly all dressed in fascist black? Why attack the BBC if they don't want a vaccine? Just don't have one then.
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  1707. Think yourself lucky. I know people who have had Covid 19. It's not good.
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  1708. Who is buying up this government? I think we should be told.
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  1709. Serco do most of the testing and tracing and they subcontracted it to 29 other companies, so what Serco themselves do, other than take a rake off, I don't know.
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  1710. *Walliams
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  1711. A 15% increase from a low base, after a larger drop, isn't near getting back to 'normal'.
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  1712.  @jellyJen2000  or fascist, Boris is right wing not left wing.
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  1713.  @valerierodger7700  That quotation you posted refers to 'Yaws' not syphilis. Here's a quote 'Yaws is an infectious disease caused by Treponema pallidum pertenue. Unlike syphilis, which is caused by the almost identical Treponema pallidum pallidum, yaws is not sexually transmitted, but is spread by skin-to-skin contact in warm humid environments, ' Here's the link https://www.who.int/yaws/2013_Yaws_seminar_Lancet.pdf
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  1714. It's a balance to the vacuous upbeat tone of Trump.
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  1715. Evil etc It's *more than, not more then. (Learn your own language properly, if you are going to be so culturally precious). I don't care who plays who in a Shakespeare play as long as they are a good actor/actress. It's a drama and real Shakespeare fans know that the settings and casting are often varied or modernised when these plays are enacted. All the race complainers here are not Shakespeare fans I suspect. Queen Margaret was a "foreigner" in England and distrusted as such. Though she was French and Sophie Okonedo is not, the casting still works as a metaphor for her difference.
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  1716.  @deuspiter4568  Yemeni people will appreciate it most I suspect as long as the war winds down.
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  1717. You can't just act as a prima donna when taking someone to court and expect to get away with it.
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  1718. Estimate pronounced estimut it the noun. Estimate pronounced Estimayt is the verb.
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  1719. Never mind. It's not a barrier to the Presidency. Trump manages without a brain.
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  1720.  @maryjones4029  Only the other day the Speaker of the House of Commons was saying how many threats MPs are getting and how frightened they are. I don't remember that accusation of 'pouncing on it for ideological reasons' being levelled at MPs in general when he said that, and of all the hate comments and threats MPs receive, Diane Abbott alone receives half of them. 2 MPs have been killed in recent years and one other survived a stabbing and that was without any encouragement from anyone.
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  1721.  @snipper1ie  To my mind a King, originally, was a warrior leader of a group of people who were able to defend themselves successfully, conquer land and steal cattle. When it became hereditary I'm not too sure. Irish Kings in Celtic times were an exception. They were elected and had to be perfect in body, but they paid the penalty if there was a drought or a famine. They would be sacrificed to the gods, and a different one elected. I'm not sure whether the Welsh had the same ritual.
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  1722.  @titteryenot4524  His body looks almost as inflated as his ego. That man's not starving.
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  1723.  @xx_splattysquid_xx8132  I'm fine. Going for my Covid vaccine tomorrow.
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  1724. Tidgy's not a normal name though.
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  1725. Keep up. She's going to be making a speech to the nation on Sunday (tomorrow). It's been widely advertised in news media.
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  1726. @Fallen Soul P.S. In the whole 3 years of my course, which covered about 15 subject areas, I only had 1 female lecturer. Those for the other 14 subject areas were men. That was probably the norm then (I'd switched from another course in History English and Law where there were no women lecturers). However we were exposed to a different range of views through the reading lists for the courses but again most of these were written by men. I can't remember a book on the list by a woman writer though there might have been. There was a feminist magazine around at the time called 'Spare Rib'.
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  1727. Based on what analysis? They have a good enough majority to be around for 5 years at least.
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  1728. Never trust politicians who shout. (There's a political precedent).
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  1729. What thousands? Evidence please.
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  1730.  @andyforshaw8489  Woman of the people then.
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  1731. If it's 'boxed away in warehouses', it's likely expired by now. It doesn't live long outside of the freezer.
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  1732. Lunatics and delusional types sign here.
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  1733. The British granted 100 more fishing licences to French fishermen. That's what ended the conflict.
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  1734. Ricky Gervais endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party in 2017. He's not anti-left.
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  1735. If you want more right wing entertainers, there's always Jim Davidson.
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  1736. Hardly if it gets society and the economy open and moving again.
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  1737.  @motr1912  Farms worth under £1m won't pay any extra. If there ate 2 people the threshold is £3m. If they give their farm to their children and live for 7 years after that, no tax
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  1738. And too many low skilled holding Ministerial positions.
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  1739. Yeah, then it would be free of government pressure.
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  1740. Why do some Americans think that systems that work perfectly well in Europe are 'The Appocalypse'?
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  1741. Do these changes never reverse themselves, because every country must have experienced famines historically whether from colonialism or other causes, especially in times when farmers were wholly dependent on fluctuations in the weather from year to year? If the bodies of famine survivors store fat more easily, doesn't this mean that people need to eat less fat, or eat less?
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  1742. Yes, the Tories are merely actors and not very good ones.
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  1743. Do you have the right to choose whether you pay tax, whether you wear a seat belt, whether you obey traffic signs? These are legal requirements with penalties for non compliance. When you live in a society there are obligations to that society. They are for your own benefit and everyone else's. Perhaps living on a desert island would suit you.
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  1744. From one mad party to an even madder one.
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  1745. That's a clever way for Oprah not to be seen endorsing what Meghan is saying as 'truth'. The truth is no one truly knows the truth.
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  1746. He's challenged Boris all the way, but what do you expect him to do when he's up against Boris's 80 seat majority from the voters? He doesn't have the numbers in Parliament to stop Boris. I hope you voted, otherwise you are part of the problem.
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  1747. Neither does high inflation help the working person. When the cat's out of the bag it's not easy to put pack in again.
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  1748. He's a lung expert, not just 'some guy'
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  1749. He's not anti-Jewish so I would classify him as a fascist rather than a Nazi (Nazis being a specific type of fascist)
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  1750.  @billyshears5569  Personally I don't find thinking gets to be too much, no.
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  1751. Surely it's better to be honest, than 'brutal'.
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  1752. You're not supposed to vote the tyrants in in the first place.
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  1753. She had her hands up on the glass. Paws up is an attack position for a lion so maybe he saw it as an aggressive stance. I assume he's fed and not hungry.
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  1754. The level of ignorance in these comments is staggering. They all have to go through quarantine. Do some research before commenting.
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  1755. This thread is a long advert.
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  1756. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but if I was I'd almost wonder if someone suggested to the police that they should bump someone off to provoke a riot and help Trump's election prospects, or maybe it was Walter Wallace that was encouraged to attack the police. No, I won't go there. That's conspiracy land. Just looked up the facts. The man Wallace was bipolar and in a crisis. Police say they shot him because he wouldn't drop the knife he was holding. In the UK he would have been tasered, handcuffed, and taken to a mental health unit.
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  1757. Ja
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  1758.  @redpillnibbler4423  Wibble wobble wibble (I've had the vaccination)
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  1759.  @a.steinherr9944  Yes, true. It must have been a split second decision for him. At least he had the intention initially, but I wonder what he could have done himself that would have been any use. That man was unconscious and bleeding a lot from his ear. He needed immediate medical care and paramedics. Did he survive? Who is/was he?
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  1760. Indeedlydoodly
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  1761. Yes they have to quarantine.
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  1762. F stands for F**k**g?
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  1763. It's not a myth just because you don't like the BBC and think it has a particular political viewpoint that you don't like. Get some rationality and base your comments on facts.
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  1764. I'll get out my very small violin.
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  1765. This is spin. The conflict was ended by granting French fishermen 100 more licences.
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  1766. Local councils are responsible for keeping the access points unblocked, the drainage system under that is for Thames Water to do, since the water system was privatised. It's nothing to do with the mayor but some people like to heap blame on him for anything at all.
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  1767. I think she's passionate about what she has to say.
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  1768. So ignorance is bliss, is it? Only India and Brazil have higher daily case numbers than the UK and that's before we drop all restrictions.
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  1769.  @stevec6427  Yes vaccinations here have brought down hospitalisation and death rates but those could still rise enough to make hospitals struggle again if the virus is let rip. There is a great backlog of cases for treatment for other illnesses now and the NHS will never catch up with those without more funding or without controlling the spread of Covid. The other thing about letting the Covid virus spread without control is that it tends to create variations/mutations which may be resistant to current vaccines. Also don't forget that one in four people who get the virus suffer from Long Covid, which is long term symptoms or permanent damage to organs such as lungs..
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  1770. She's trying to keep them free to suffer.
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  1771. I am a pensioner and I and my husband received Winter Fuel payments but to be honest we didn't need them and I wondered why such payments were universal rather than being targeted at pensioners in need.
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  1772. Sounds like a Hitlerish policy. Trump was going to 'drain the swamp' but he is the swamp.
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  1773.  @julien3331  Jeremy Corbyn does want to respect the will of the people. That's why he wants to give them a further vote on a better Brexit deal, one that won't damage jobs and the economy, by keeping us in a customs union with the EU, and the choice of remain. When people voted to leave 3 years ago, no one discussed the different options for leaving or the pros and cons of each of those and no one discussed the impact of leaving. A lot more information has come to light now, and the public should be able to choose based on the current options and current state of knowledge. One thing that's become obvious is that there will be no benefits for the ordinary person from a hard Brexit, though there will be benefits for the wealthy and for big multi national Corporations.
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  1774.  Nick Mitchell  Maybe it's because many of them speak English rather than Turkish, Greek or Italian.
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  1775. Who wants to live in a Singapore type society?
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  1776.  @fanfanackapan  Banter is all he's good at though. He's useless at leading and takes credit for the achievements of others.
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  1777.  @SydG00001  The Home Office is a government department. The Metropolitan Police come under the responsibilities of The Home Office. The Home Office funds the Metropolitan Police along with some funds from the London Mayor's budget and local government budgets.
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  1778.  @LowleyUK  It's not true that all English people have German blood. The Anglo-Saxons who came to Britain did not eradicate the population of native Britons that were already here. Recent DNA tests have found the highest concentration of German DNA in the South of England but it's only about 30-40% as I recall (I'm sure it can be googled).The German connection of Elizabeth II goes back to George I, before that there's Scottish blood in the monarchy and before that Welsh and before that Norman French and before that Anglo Saxon and before that Native Briton, perhaps mixed with a bit of Roman.
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  1779. Well there will always be people who have no interest in their own culture. They are called Philistines.
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  1780. Where's the propaganda. Which parts are factually incorrect?
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  1781. They haven't had so much fun with charts since the days of 'The Swingometer'.
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  1782. I think the wink was meant to denote. This is just what I have to say to keep the backbenchers happy. I'm not really attacking you.
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  1783. Private Eye Magazine (current issue) explains why it's difficult to prosecute executives in such cases It's actually difficult to pin guilt on them (produce proof) unless it can be shown that they knew they were lying. In fact in nearly all corporate scandals no executives have been prosecuted. One ray of hope is if someone testifies that the executives lied and knew they were lying. Someone (a P.O. investigator) has stated that Vennells knew she was lying, so it could be that that will be enough to prosecute her, but they always can afford the best lawyers who know all the get out clauses when things come to trial.
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  1784.  @lizzie3094  His deal wasn't much different. He just accepted the EU offer of a border down the Irish Sea which she had rejected,
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  1785. As a remoaner I am pleased, as I was expecting a complete bollox next year and it's a relief that perhaps it won't be quite as complete as I was expecting.
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  1786. He always knows what he's against. He never explains what he's for.
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  1787.  @Concerned_one  Bigoted then. He did encourage violence against muslims.
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  1788. Private Eye magazine has some great detail on what happened before Grenfell such as test results on cladding types being manipulated and falsified so they would be falsely judged as meeting fire safety standards.
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  1789.  @dopiaza2006  You are mixed up. It's the right (fascists) that were against Jews. Hitler accused the Jews in Germany of being leftist.
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  1790.  @dopiaza2006  That's not right. The left does not like Israeli policies towards the Palestinians but that's a political position - to do with fairness and justice. Nothing to do with race or religion. This Jewish professor will explain to you - from 1:18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n5YiCRIujo&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=117&t=171s
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  1791.  @explorer0213  My brain's in gear. Yours is jammed with lunatic conspiracy theories.
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  1792. It's not just about diet; other factors are risk factors too. For instance, age (over 40), genetics (diabetics in the family), medication e.g steroids taken for asthma or those which cause people to gain weight, and there are other factors too.
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  1793. On the video they are only talking about pro Brexit results of a GBTV poll. Where is the discussion of the statistica poll you referred to with 56% dislikes of Brexit?
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  1794. If you listen to his interviews he'll go for Brexit with a deal. He's not a 'traitor' He wants to save the British economy. Those who use the word 'traitor' forget that in the run up to the Referendum vote, the Leave Campaign were saying we'd leave with a great deal. None of them mentioned we'd leave with no deal.
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  1795. Not treating people is not the same as euthanising. Euthanising is actively and positively putting people down. Not treating is a negative thing happening if they don't have enough equipment to try and save them. I find it abhorrent but what are they to do, if they don't have the equipment, they don't have the equipment? It's up to the government to take measures so that we don't get into that situation, by ensuring adequate supplies of equipment.
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  1796. Covid could cause heart issues - all the variants so far could. That's not new.
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  1797. It sounds like they have been experimented on. Poor guys look a bit scared, especially Doctor Hu. 100 days is a long time in ICU. You'd expect to be better by then if you are going to get better.
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  1798. The law is the law. He is not the law. He is an enforcer of the law. He should know what the law is and abide by it
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  1799.  @roberthenry3685  They have only destroyed the opposition if people won't vote for them. Forget the woke stuff, if that's not relevant to you, but everyone wants to be treated with dignity and respect don't they? It's the bread and butter issues that you should therefore judge them on. Who will make your life better in those terms and who will make it worse. Look at the policies the parties have for changing things but don't believe the Tories lying guff. Try to find basic facts and have a look at the manifestos at election time.
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  1800.  @everythingisupsidedown9593  The NHS has saved my life several times. It's a brilliant thing to have.
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  1801. This is spin. The conflict ended because the British granted French fishermen 100 more fishing licences.
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  1802. What worries me is that whatever Congress does, Trump and Musk will ignore it and 'fix' the next election. That's if they allow another election.
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  1803. It seems hate or peevishness is all he has to offer. It's mid-life crisis syndrome.
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  1804. But it's not clear what it means. Disliking the fact that Covid cases are up, or disliking being told about it, for other reasons?
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  1805. There's nothing noble about that man, Putin.
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  1806. No Nigel. Instead of finding a massive way to up the private sector involvement what about some massive upping of funding for the NHS? I'm not against involving the private sector as a temporary measure to get waiting lists down but not allowing them to cherry pick or takeover on a permanent basis.
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  1807. Prighozin, the money is running out, that's why.
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  1808. They are hardly likely to make the same mistake twice.
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  1809. I saw Nye for £20. Not the best seats but no restricted view either. The National Theatre is more accessible than most but not everyone can travel to it or even afford a £20 ticket. Sadly there's too much poverty.
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  1810.  @alined5868  Snow is not rare in England. It happens in Winter. However it's getting rarer in London. The Midlands, The North and the southern extremities like Kent and Cornwall would normally have snow in Winter.
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  1811. Mosques are abiding by the same rules as everyone else or do you have evidence to the contrary?
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  1812.  @inevski  Last time what? If you are referring to the last Labour government. They reduced child poverty through Sure Start Centres, child benefit and working tax credits, ended the troubles in Northern Ireland through the Good Friday Agreement, gave Scotland and Wales devolved governments, enacted much equalities legislation , had the lowest waiting times for NHS treatments, had the highest level of patient satisfaction with the NHS and pay levels have always been higher under Labour governments.
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  1813.  @Thalia.Lambrou  * Bearing. The leave campaign did tell people that Turkey would likely be let into the EU and many people believed them.
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  1814. Does anyone still believe anything Trump says?
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  1815.  @oldskoolrools3087  No one's 'throwing money'. It's an investment in children who are the nation's future - an investment any wealthy and civilized nation would make. Your arguments about having children to get more benefits... did you not know that the Tories limited child benefit to 2 children only. The number of children in poverty has grown since the Tories have been in power, so you are saying it's o.k for the Tories to allow things to get worse and sit on their hands doing nothing about it? A hungry child can't wait for complex policy tinkering to work its way through. I believe there's an Indian charity that has offered to support hungry kids in Britian.
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  1816. Those more resistant to vaccines are more concerning than others.
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  1817. Lol.
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  1818. The Europeans have made it clear that they expect the UK to come up with what they want. The EU isn't going to make a series of offers or options. Secondly, they think that time has passed. They are not going to re-open the agreement made with Theresa May, and a Free Trade Deal with Europe can't be negotiated at this stage without an agreement. It would now have to wait for a no deal exit before negotiations on a Free Trade Deal could begin. Free Trade deals can take years to negotiate. All in all, I'd say we're headed for a 'no deal' exit on 31 October by default.
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  1819.  @lorrainelane6583  *cynical. Actually the BBC showed last year's footage - accidentally they say, because Boris messed up this year at the Cenotaph in London - going too early and placing the wreath upside down.
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  1820.  @casperslaststandme5991  The party under Corbyn is more socialist than it was which means it has policies to make life fairer and more equitable for more people, and to try and reverse some of the gap between rich and poor that's been getting wider in recent years. (See Labour's last Manifesto commitments). Vested interests such as newspaper proprietors who fear losing their wealth through having tax loopholes closed under Labour or being taxed more, fear a Corbyn government and will publish anything to undermine him playing on people's fears. Corbyn has always said he prefers negotiations to achieve peaceful solutions and will talk to all sides in a conflict. To the newspapers that makes him a consorter with terrorists, but in fact the NI good Friday agreement was reached only through talks with both sides. The Tories don't have a plan, not just for Brexit but for anything because they don't believe in government planning. They believe only in the market and see their role as reducing government's size and role and giving as much over to the market as they can by privatising, outsourcing and deregulating. However markets never work well on their own without regulation. They leave many victims in their wake. The success of the Tory party is that they act for the wealthy and they cause chaos and have very dim people in key government Ministries, however they are good at persuading the common man (and woman) that they are the party for them. An area crying out for a plan is national transport, but the Tories won't do it. Areas that don't make sense except when run by the state include The Railways but Grayling will plough ever on with franchises even where they have failed multiple times and cost the taxpayer an arm and a leg.
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  1821. What's fair about it? He abused her in the marriage and then couldn't handle when she moved on. That's a sign of a pathetic individual.
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  1822.  @glyntutt1586  You're voting against your own interests, not against the establishment. The 'establishment' will benefit from a hard Brexit - if they are rich it will give them greater freedom to invest in tax havens or low wage economies without being subject to the same financial regulations they are now. Those who really care about the nation as a whole are more concerned about the impact a hard Brexit will have on ordinary people and their livelihoods. Besides it looks as though we will be more under the thumb of the USA once we leave. If we want deals with them, they will want us to follow their aggressive foreign policies and accept their lower standards on food, animal welfare, environment and public health as well as buying goods from them rather than backing or starting our own industries.
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  1823.  @chuffin-nora6568  There was other action Trump could have taken to prepare for the pandemic but he sat on his hands for a month. Now he's advising people to inject disinfectant which people in the past have done to commit suicide. He's reckless, hopeless and dangerous.
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  1824. Phillipa Gregory's book the White Queen is a novel and this series is based on her book, but I was referring to Alison Weir who is a historian. She wrote Lancaster and York; The Wars of the Roses.
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  1825. What a hypocrite. She was a Tory and the Tories are the oppressors in the UK. They would have taken away more workers rights but for the EU.
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  1826. Large families get to play 5 a side football.
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  1827. In which place will she do less damage?
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  1828.  @fatfat1877  You're great at missing the point. You can place tariffs on the EU and the EU can place tariffs on us and that will make the cost of living higher for British consumers. How is that a benefit to the ordinary person? Yes the government SAY they've been working on deals but that's not the same as having deals ready. Deals can take many years to negotiate and how many do we have in hand to replace the 40 plus that we'll lose as part of the EU - not more than a handful. You really are not listening so I'll have to leave you in your world of make believe as you're so reluctant to leave it.
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  1829. He seems really stressed by this judging by his heavy panting.
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  1830. Why does he have to tunnel under Page's house? That's not essential. Williams has other properties it seems. He probably doesn't live full time in this one. Swimming pools aren't being used much in this time of Covid.
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  1831. The neighbours are probably Guardian readers, that's all.
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  1832. The other thing is that when houses are built they need to be good quality, not cheap shoddy throw ups, so that they will last and buyers can rely on them not to cause expensive problems for them from the start.
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  1833. Doesn't China get much of its coal from Australia?
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  1834. So many comments here on presentation and appearance. Very little comment on the points made in the video.
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  1835. No evidence for terror sympathising. It's the police that decide what marches can go ahead.
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  1836. You are actually a British subject in a monarchic system.
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  1837. quantity over quality
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  1838. The disillusioned say they may not vote at all. Heaven help us!
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  1839.  @gentlemanfarmer6042  My comment was 3 years ago. I will do some more research before stating whether I was wrong or right. I've got 98 likes so some people agree with me, but I will check the evidence. I'm pretty sure I remember hearing this on a TV programme about the Romans, but I can't be sure until I look into it. It was 3 years ago. I didn't say 'everyone', only 'many people'.
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  1840.  @gentlemanfarmer6042  Have patience. I'm providing more sources and links. I'm not pushing any agenda or politics here. You are clearly some sort of obsessive so our discussion ends here for my part.
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  1841.  @erynpimentel915  What is the cost of not treating them? Spread of disease to the wider population with even more cost?
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  1842.  @matthewsmith2787  I think this guy realises he may not get another chance or it will be very hard for him. He spent 3-4 years studying for the one he lost. It can't be easy in his condition.
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  1843. That's interesting. Having been taught, I am the opposite. My understanding is better than my ability to write it. Reading Latin though can be a bit like doing a puzzle. The position of the words is different to English and the endlings of words are often the key to the meaning but some endings can mean more than one thing until you work out the context. It's such a concise language. It can say a lot with fewer words than English.You must be very motivated to be self taught. That's impressive.
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  1844. Before he was forced out.
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  1845. MRWorldGuy. No the drama is very good. Have you watched it? I doubt that people getting upset at the casting of one person, on the grounds of race, are Shakespeare fans or enjoy watching Shakespeare. They're just here to moan about their favourite bugbear.
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  1846. MRWorldGuy. It does matter to me whether you are a Shakespeare fan because I'm sick of every video featuring a black person in public life being full of racist comments from idiots and haters, and that's the only reason they visit the site. If you were a Shakespeare fan you would not react this way because you would realise this is a drama not a history. Shakespeare was never completely accurate about history. He sometimes changed things for dramatic purposes or to please his sponsors. His plays are regarded as having universal themes, for instance here the themes are about conflict and power, and they have been played all over the world in different settings. For instance there's a version of Richard III played in modern uniforms with fascist overtones, but hundreds of fans did not post comments that it was all anachronistic because fascism didn't exist then. No, it's only race that seems to get some people hot under the collar. Genuine Shakespeare fans understand that these plays can be interpreted in different ways under different themes. His plays have been done in modern times with all male actors, all female actors and all black actors. They are not things set in stone for all time. I can understand why she was cast because she's a good actress so was cast on merit and also her race is a kind of metaphor for the fact that Margaret was a despised foreigner. Margaret was of course French but these days we don't hate the French so much, but there are plenty of race haters so it works in that sense.
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  1847. MRWorldGuy I think they are racists because skin colour is all that bothers them. They don't comment that the actor playing Henry is too handsome or that Richard III's hair is wrong or any other historical inaccuracies. It doesn't bother them that Othello has been played by white actors. No, the only inaccuracy that bothers them is skin colour. Also you see this sort of thing all over the internet. Just look at any video featuring a black politician and the comments are not much about their policies but more about their race.
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  1848. MRWorldGuy. If it's a history or race is an important factor in the story, I'd say it's important to be racially accurate. If it's a drama, of the Shakespearian kind which have been subject to experimentation in modern times e.g from the 1960s onwards, I'd say racial casting is not vital because people should be able to see beyond that to what the actress is representing. To be honest it's hard to get modern audiences interested in Shakespeare unless they can see some relevance to modern times. Baz Luhrman did a modern dress version of Romeo and Juliet for instance to make it more interesting for young people to relate to. I do remember when American indians were usually played by white actors with make up, in all those Westerns I watched as a child, so I think we should be a bit generous here.
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  1849. It's interesting that they relied on paperwork in storage. How many companies would not have that paperwork to rely on?
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  1850. He wants to be taken seriously today.
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  1851.  @stormbringer2840  I think you should read some of the other many comments. Shakespeare was never about accuracy. It's about stories and drama and people set his stories in all sorts of eras and settings with all sorts of casts. I think that people who criticise this casting are not really fans of Shakespeare and don't watch his plays. That's all I'm saying.
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  1852. The person who wrote the plays and sonnets of Shakespeare was clearly some kind of humanitarian. That does not describe De Vere or any aristo of that time.
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  1853.  @ozzie2612  If they had a proper system working adequately staffed they could quickly process cases to distinguish genuine asylum seekers from illegal migrants and return illegal ones to their own country but since there is a labour shortage fuelling supply shortages and price rises, since Brexit, the government could do with some more workers.
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  1854. It's not his fault if people don't follow the guidelines. It's not his fault if a more easily transmissible variation of the virus appears. It's not his fault if the government didn't prepare effectively or allows air traffic through without checks.
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  1855.  @eastman566  I could call myself a magician. It doesn't mean there is such a thing as real magic. i could call myself a Flat Earther. It doesn't mean the Earth is flat.
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  1856. Just bring along a dog called Boo and claim to be cheering for it.
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  1857. Yes, and that document was obtained through official channels from a FOI (freedom of information) request. Boris immediately lies by saying it's a lie.
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  1858. I think this series is brilliant but I have found there are some things that aren't true to real events. People wouldn't be threatened with being shot in this period. People who are suffering from radiation sickness are not a great risk to others, once their irradiated clothes are removed. The helicopter did crash but not trying to put out the fire. It crashed later. The 'revelation' was not made during the trial of the 3 managers. That was done that way for dramatic effect.
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  1859. They weren't 'allowed' marches. The police dispersed the crowds on both occasions.
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  1860. @Sir Honkalot And that's just the Tory leadership contenders.
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  1861. He's not a denier of the people's vote, since before the Referendum, the Leave Campaign were campaigning to leave with a deal (exactly the same as this guy). They never mentioned leaving with no deal, so you can't say that the voters voted to leave with no deal.
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  1862.  @rorykeegan1895  Eh? I'm talking about his record of voting in Parliament. The things he has supported and the things he has failed to support.
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  1863. I remember Brexiteers being challenged about whether they knew what they were voting for and whether they realised what would happen when we left the EU, particularly if we left under a hard Brexit. They would say 'yes we know what we're voting for'. Remainers said that farming would be hit hard. Who was listening at the time? Were farmers listening? There are currently no checks on imports from the EU. Boris has chosen not to make any checks on them so the EU has an advantage over British farmers. Butchering is not just about slaughtering. It's about cutting and preparing meat in the way that the supermarkets require. Some of the problems experienced by pig farmers are down to supermarket contracts which require them to produce so many pigs, even if they can't get them properly butchered, and one pig farmer says it will take 10 months (presumably until the end of his contract) to stop the process. In the meantime they will have to slaughter and dispose of pigs they can't bring to market.
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  1864. Too much evidence produced and by independent sources for the Skripal case to be lies. Putin doesn't much bother denying it any more. He just says the 'spies' don't deserve such a fuss and they are scum. No mention of having killed or injured some innocent people in someone else's country. Imagine the outrage if someone did that in Russia.
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  1865. That's an insult to Greta Thunberg. I am sure she is sincere and is not being used.
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  1866.  @HalfB  It's bona fide not bonified
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  1867.  @nigget-tv-videos4135  Corbyn would not have let all those people die and nor would Starmer. No one could do worse than Boris. The only thing he got right was the vaccine and that's the thing saving him right now, but he never closed borders even when he knew about the Indian variant and that it was more transmissable. He was intending to open up from the remains of lockdown on 21 June but now he's hesitating again because the Covid case numbers are going up again, because he did not close the borders and it's here and spreading now.
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  1868.  @deliaford6536  It's probably coming from the French via Americans who have followed the French pronunciation. One very influential chef in the US was Julia Child who introduced them to French cooking. I don't know if that was the route or whether it was possibly from the former French owned areas of the US such as Louisiana. The French were also allies of the US in the war of independence.
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  1869.  @darrenbellenger1  We'll see. What he 'wants' doesn't match up to the real power relations in the world. Leaving on WTO terms would not be good. The USA will want to protect and promote their farmers even though they have lower food standards than us at present (while we are in the EU). They will want us to drop those standards to take their less healthy food.
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  1870.  @darrenbellenger1  The IMF said their prediction depended on the UK avoiding a no deal Brexit. I linked the IMF page that says that. I don't believe the EU and UK are nearly close enough for a deal. We will find out by June if the UK walks away from deal talks, as it says it will if it doesn't get its way.
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  1871. Brits also roll the eyes. Some do anyway.
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  1872. How on Earth did Trump's parents ever get him to understand the word 'No', or did they never say that word to him?
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  1873. I'm sure NHS managers have already taken whatever action they can already. This crisis has been a long time coming with the NHS warning about it and the government seeming uninterested, having deaf ears until it got this bad. Even now they are just looking for cheap short term fixes it seems that won't improve things long term.
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  1874.  Albert Pike  The non urgent cases have been postponed to keep people safe and allow for medical staff to concentrate on Covid patients - that's all.
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  1875. It is biased though.
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  1876.  @Syanarah  Yes you're right. I just looked it up. I wonder why then, that some MPs accept outside help from lobbyists in paying their office expenses or providing external office staff, when there's no need for it.
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  1877. Scumbag racists drunk with power.
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  1878.  @Евген_Москва  возможно, но дело не в этом
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  1879.  @barrykingston523  No one should be using Ukraine. Only Ukraine should make decisions about Ukraine. However if Russia threatens Ukraine, that will push Ukraine towards any powers that will help defend it. Russia and the US would not accept other countries telling them what to do, so neither country should tell Ukraine what to do.
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  1880.  @OrwellsHousecat  Actually, if you've heard the latest pronouncements from the Taliban, they are not allowing women to be educated at all, and certainly not from secondary level. That's what they have decided now. Western countries punish rape and seek to educate men about it, but some Muslim countries seek to protect women by virtual imprisonment and punish any that are raped, rather than punishing the men who rape.
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  1881. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Israel attacks Gaza and the embassies of other countries using the excuse of the right to defend itself. It's not surprising if those countries that can also think they have a right to attack to defend themselves.
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  1882.  @Andrewx4  Rightists have never known how to win democratically. They only win by lying and cheating.
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  1883.  @darrenmcmellon8575  Much less corrupt.
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  1884. As far away as possible.
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  1885. Is the difference between 'honourable' and 'right honourable' (member), the same as the difference between wanker and right wanker?
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  1886. There are lots of here today gone tomorrow victims of Covid too.
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  1887. @Phoenix What exactly does it go to show? Do tell us.
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  1888. Isn't it anti British to be anti the BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation? We should be proud to have it. It is respected and well regarded all around the world.
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  1889. The issue is Boris's constant lying which the voters are sick of and would cause a lot of Conservatives to lose their seats if they carry on supporting him. How can they still claim to be the party of law and order to voters?
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  1890. Bruce Robinson directed this film, and it's loosely autobiographical about his time as an unemployed actor. Bruce Robinson played Benvolio in Zeffirelli's 1960s film 'Romeo and Juliet' and during the filming he was subjected to 'unwanted sexual advances' by Zeffirelli. He said he based the character of lecherous Uncle Monty, in Withnail and I, on Zeffirelli.
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  1891.  @ytr3488  Provide the statistics to back up that statement please.
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  1892. How do we know that 'his dark past haunted him for the rest of his life'? This is a man without a conscience it seems.
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  1893. Labour said they will look at second homes in future. Some people by second homes as a pension pot because they have no private or second pension but that's not in every case. There are a lot of houses but many need renovation and people can't afford that as VAT is charged on the work. I wish councils could buy up and renovate some of these houses to rent or sell. Air B&B is another area that needs limits.
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  1894.  @gardenjoy5223  *proves
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  1895. @SillySausage2024 I don't think that will be the main determiner. Actually AI will be more of a threat to jobs unless we find a way to fairly share the profits generated by AI across society more generally.
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  1896. For what? What was well done?
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  1897.  @SC-mw2yc  They didn't continue to tour though. They effectively broke up as a band then. They did get together from time to time for a few specific 'projects' later but that's all and they didn't always involve John Paul Jones.https://ultimateclassicrock.com/led-zeppelin-break-up/
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  1898. 'And now he's touched it we'll have to dispose of it, because it's not sterile'.
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  1899. Not really. He's not a w*anker, Master Bates.
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  1900. I'm glad William Shakespeare is being protected. We don't want to lose a national treasure.
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  1901. Because they are not the ones getting blood clots it seems.
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  1902. It's Derry
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  1903. Mark Zuckerberg also has curly hair. Hmm!
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  1904. So why are government Ministers saying they need EU help for an airline deal?
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  1905. Those on minimum wage are not as qualified as her, have not spent years qualifying at their own expense, do not have life and death responsibilities and probably aren't paying average or upwards London rents which are increasing when the value of their pay has gone down 25% under the Tory government, or is everyone to be paid on minimum wage in which case all our skilled workers will move abroad? The Tories love it when workers attack each other rather than them.
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  1906.  @takkers687  Exactly
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  1907. If the Tories get in, even though they tell so many lies, they will tell even more next time, as they'll regard it as a tactic that works and they will try and prevent anyone from challenging their lies - see their proposals on page 48 of their Manifesto about emasculating Parliament and the Supreme Court, the Media and the legislation that prevents hate speech.
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  1908. * Ever heard of Marcus Rashford and his campaign for kids to get vouchers for food during the holidays until next Easter? Unfortunately the Tories voted the proposal down yesterday.
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  1909. Such as?
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  1910. She will be given all the new preventative medicine that is now available. She'll get the best of medical care anyway.
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  1911. They don't have any real power now. They are more entertainment value and tourist attraction. Imagine if the top person in the system was President Boris Johnson.
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  1912. It reminds me of George Orwell's 1984 where people could be arrested for 'thought crime'.
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  1913. Strains and variations are different things. These are variations but they are created where there are few controls and lots of people mixing and spreading the virus.
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  1914.  @eliakimjosephsophia4542  That's not true. You have to be registered to vote before you can vote and anyone not eligible would not be registered.
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  1915.  @debasishroy7427  So it doesn't matter that he hands taxpayers money to friends and family? Maybe that's acceptable in India but not in Britain.
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  1916.  @PoppaFilth  No it hasn't fascism has tried to seem as though it's not, that's all.
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  1917. Well they can look him up can't they if they have no knowledge? Does anyone really know who Boris is? He changes his policies so frequently to suit his best career chances, and behind that joking exterior are some pretty extreme right wing views.
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  1918. He doesn't seem to have changed too much. Some people become unrecognisable when they age, but he doesn't age badly.
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  1919. Trump is old.
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  1920.  @wyndella7212  It seems like people in the USA tend to think of everything in terms of money.
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  1921.  Edward Blodgett  Didn't Trump say it was a hoax?
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  1922.  @PaOwen1991  Not anyone.
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  1923.  @alunjones3860  Boris regularly breaks the Ministerial Code (a resignation offence) by lying to Parliament, but he suffers no consequences or penalty. When someone complains about his lies they are kicked out 'for breaking the rules'. There are double standards here, or at least you could say that Parliamentary measures are not equipped to deal with a frequent liar like Boris, that refuses to apologise, correct his lies, or resign.
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  1924. or didn't have the right ID.
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  1925. He was like a child, having a little sulk. Pathetic.
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  1926. Because it takes time to distinguish economic migrants from refugees. There are international obligations on refugees but not on economic migrants. However if they don't do the work to establish which is which, the courts will stop any removals.
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  1927. In the words of the song 'Reason to Believe' If I listen long enough to you I'd find a way to believe that it's all true Knowing, that you lied, straight-faced While I cried But still I'd look to find a reason to believe
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  1928.  @austinreese5553  Lol. Only women can get endometriosis.
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  1929. Resignations?
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  1930. Could the energy companies not afford to hedge, or were they more concerned with using increased profits to pay increased dividends to shareholders? Many energy companies were just too small though.
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  1931. The camera man is scared of Henry.
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  1932. Lost £100, 000,000? Didn't they pay £200,000,000 to their shareholders?
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  1933. I'm amazed they were able to keep such cool heads in fighting against injustice and Jo and Alan are very good at explaining clearly what happened.
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  1934. @Jay Cee Yes there is democracy. When there are parties for different viewpoints, that's democracy, and you can vote for the one that best reflects your views.
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  1935. Oh dear, paranoia reigns. Sky News and Investigative Journalism? That's an oxymoron or perhaps just a moron.
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  1936. She's just talking bullshit though. George Soros was 13 in 1944 when the Nazis invaded Hungary and the war was over in 1945.
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  1937. Not so, as the improvement in my asthma can attest.
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  1938. Save her from Boris.
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  1939. To be fair she was glossing over it at first and the other guests and Graham, wanted to know more so brought the focus back to it..
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  1940. Trump behind bars is a more fun idea.
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  1941. What is there to complete? It's done. People just don't like the result.
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  1942.  @JohnKobaRuddy  Nobody owns anybody else. Nobody has the right to kill anybody else.
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  1943. The justice system is a weapon. It's a weapon for justice.
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  1944. What exactly are their policies? Nigel never says does he? He just knows how to whinge and criticise.
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  1945. How many 'last warnings' has Boris had? He can't change.
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  1946. In what sense is it fake?
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  1947. @mr grumps No he's not normal. He's a wealthy man who works to become wealthier and has a wealthy man's interests at heart. He's just like the Tories in fact.
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  1948. The tone of this report is 'more in sorrow than in joy'.
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  1949. Not crazy. Just a Scottish accent.
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  1950. I saw an interview with Peter Hitchens one time in a magazine where the interviewer started pointing out the lack of logic in his views, and he admitted to her that he adopted contrarian views just because it gave him a living. It's very dangerous to do that in this situation though. People's lives are more important than his ability to stay in the limelight and earn his living. Listen to the scientists and the medics, not a b*llsh*tter.
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  1951. You suggested Jacob Blake is dead. I had to look it up as I hadn't heard that. I couldn't find a reference to his death. It seems he is still alive, thank goodness.
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  1952. Because Ukraine was a sovereign democracy which was entitled to decide its own affairs.
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  1953.  Floopy Doopey  Because the Tories are allowing that to happen. How can you laugh at that? It won't be so funny when you have to wait 12 hours to have a broken leg fixed.
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  1954.  @bigpants6121  Yes, it's not exactly supporting British industry. The only 'excuse' I can think of is if the Chinese could guarantee a sufficient supply and the British firm could not, and then the Chinese firm said to the government 'we will guarantee to supply the UK in the numbers it requires, if we are the sole supplier and have a monopoly', and at that point the government was desperate. All of this could have been avoided if the government acted on previous reports as far back as 2019 that warned them to prepare for a pandemic and recommended what actions to take.
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  1955.  @bigpants6121  Yes there were a couple of reports the government received on the need to prepare for a pandemic, both of which they ignored.
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  1956.  @johnriggs4929  I've already had one dose because I look at the risks for me and the science. Of course I would not want to take it 'if it kills or maims me' as you put it, but I don't expect it to. The risk of dying of Covid for me is far higher than the risk of having the vaccine. I have diabetes, asthma and I've been treated for cancer last year. Nothing in life is totally risk free though. 95% of the over 50s in the UK have now been vaccinated. I don't see waves of dead people from that. In fact the case numbers and deaths figures from Covid have come down greatly in the UK due to a combination of lockdown and vaccination.
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  1957. Ugo Barbarino. They can do that if they wish, but it's hardly in the same league as Stalin, and it's been in the British newspapers and on British TV anyway. The thing about Stalin is that he died over 60 years ago so it's not about a living person, and no-one was allowed to criticise him during his lifetime.
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  1958. Ugo Barbarino. If you say that you don't understand Armando Iannucci. He has also done satires on British and US politicians also. He has a view of all politicians as often rather inept and desperate to hide that. You are just not used to seeing this sort of thing I guess.
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  1959. Why not pause for a second rather than saying er and um so much.
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  1960. I don't want the Tories back. Labour even with its faults would be better.
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  1961. Don't be silly.
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  1962.  @heminder  It's not hysteria with Covid. If doctors and nurses can't get tests that's serious. They can't work for fear of passing Covid onto patients. If children can't get tests they can't go to school and parents may not be able to go back to work as childcare may not be possible.
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  1963.  @davedave4699  That's a silly statement. What evidence do you have that he doesn't want to lock up murderers?
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  1964. Labour should not negotiate deals with them. They will try to bend Labour policies and they mostly just want to save their own skins.
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  1965. Henry VIII would qualify as a serial killer.
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  1966. @phillip franks I don't generally favour Winston but he was right in that quote. Name a system that works better for its citizens, that is not a democratic one.
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  1967.  @leeuniverse  Is it too high taxes or the Covid pandemic?
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  1968. Would you have objected to having to wear a gas mask in WW2 issued by a Tory government? People were issued with those in case of gas bombs. Stop being a whinger. There are times when we just have to take measures to keep the country safe.
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  1969.  NAGOL HAYES  Exactly!
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  1970. If you work out the financial pros and cons of being in the EU the pros, in terms of economic advantage, public welfare and security outweigh the cons. The Tories always talk as if there's only one side to this equation, the cost side of it. Do we really want to drop down to USA consumer standards in order to trade with them? Here's an example of their appalling negligent standards https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/17/health/baby-foods-arsenic-lead-toxic-metals-wellness/index.html
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  1971. * bear not bare
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  1972.  @bigpants6121  Yes, I noticed that.
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  1973. Why did he call it 'In the Closet'?
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  1974. We stopped using Fahrenheit in the UK but I still understand Fahrenheit temperatures more than Celsius. It seems more precise to me.
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  1975. Too dim.
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  1976.  @jaymeeleighjx1x  Even though they would do very different things? I don't think so.
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  1977. Idiots are voted in by idiots I suppose. In that way they represent their electorates. Then the idiots are surprised to find that they've voted in an idiot, and they become disillusioned.
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  1978. Heatstroke may have affected his judgement. He was said to be feeling unwell when he set out but he also missed the shortest route by taking a wrong turning.
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  1979. People are individuals and different. You can only talk about your own experience really, and it seems like you don't understand depression. It's more than unhappiness. It's sometimes something overwhelming that people can't find a way out of on their own. It's not just about exerting willpower.
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  1980. And what exactly would be the economic benefits of a 'no deal Brexit'? It's hard to see any benefits on the horizon so far.
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  1981. Back to the 17th century
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  1982.  @raymondblood2nd443  Back? It was never yours to begin with. You helped yourselves.
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  1983. When he joined the KGB, the KGB identified a character flaw he had, and that was that he has no sense of danger. He doesn't seem like someone who can back down or even compromise. It's scary.
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  1984. Does Nigel know what he's talking about? Has he read the deal because it was said that under it the UK is free to make deals worldwide. I don't think Nigel's right. Why would Nigel want an extension anyway if he's for a no deal Brexit? I think Nigel doesn't like it because it kills his own political ambitions.
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  1985. Like a horrible downward spiral that will make even more people lose belief and stop voting. It's awful.
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  1986.  @dudeatx  But no government was stupid enough to issue a budget that immediately spooked the markets and cranked up interest rates, except for our Tory government.
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  1987. It also saves lives, and where we retreat, China will step in and get contracts in return for aid. Our influence in the world will diminish.
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  1988. What does that mean in English?
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  1989. You didn't say they are both out of work actors. The film is about out of work actors in the 60s among other things.
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  1990. Whereas the UK government is doing its best to undermine UK democracy.
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  1991. It is a joke.
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  1992.  @wiiiz3  UK.
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  1993. If they wash their hands before and afterwards, that's all that's needed.
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  1994. I think that's David's little joke about himself.
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  1995. The timing is everything
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  1996.  @agustindejesus7398  Trump doesn't do anything useful like try to calm things down. He he just fans the flames. He would like to take the democracy out of America I think and just be a dictator like Kim Jong Un whom he admires.
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  1997.  @martinko4086  You are supposed to feel safe with police if you are a law abiding citizen.
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  1998.  @martinko4086  He had done his time for his crime. Non co-operation is not a reason to kill someone. That's not how police behave in other civilised countries and it's even against the law in the USA.
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  1999. And the speaker pointed out how many times he has used his discretion to give a voice to Brexiteers. They just don't like it when they don't like the rulings. All the tax avoiders and would be tax avoiders are annoyed when they can't get their way even when try to do it by breaking rules. As for it being similarly wrong to expect the voters to answer the same question a second time, the same questions can't be put in the same session of Parliament, but once that session has ended they can be put again or if circumstances have substantially changed, both of which apply in the case of a further Referendum.
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  2000.  @ShomshirAhmed  Abdullah was the name of the man who disarmed the stabber.
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  2001. Fear of women?
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  2002. Perhaps that's what his parents did.
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  2003. The nobodies are outshining him. Actually they are not nobodies just because you don't know who they are.
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  2004.  @Steven-bh3uk  They are not meant to 'serve' or be 'of use' to any political party. It's very common that conservatives think it's left wing when it does not slavishly follow conservative PR and similarly it's seen as right wing when it doesn't follow left wing PR. The fact is that the government chooses the governors of the BBC and the BBC's charter requires them to be balanced so they have to find views from all strands of opinion. Some people's definition of bias is a TV channel that does not reflect their own views.
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  2005. The factors affecting crime in London were building up before Khan took power and in fact they were increasing under Boris Johnson's time as mayor of London. The government massively cut the police budgets in Britain resulting in a loss of over 20,000 police officers. Also their squeeze on people through the years of austerity budgets resulting in the closure of many leisure and youth facilities and the high youth unemployment and worsening of the gap between rich and poor, and lack of action to tackle drug crime, had a lot to do with it. Trump should concern himself with reducing gun crime in the USA which is far worse than in the UK and there are cities in the USA which exceed London in homicides, before he criticises other people.
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  2006.  James H  *Name anything good Boris did as Mayor? 1) Khan capped some tube fares. He also introduced 2 bus journeys (within an hour) for one fare. These all helped workers, particularly the lowest paid who used buses to get to work. 2) He allocated more money to the police after the government had massively cut the police budgets to the extent that police numbers were reduced by 20,000 nationally. He could not make up fully for the government cuts as he didn't have as big a budget. 3) He introduced more stop and search. 4 ) He tackled air pollution by introducing air quality audits and an ultra low emissions zone.5) Between March and December 2019, 12,546 affordable homes were started in London, reaching 74% of his 17,000 target. Of these 41% were for social rent, or London affordable rent equivalent.
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  2007. The government announced today it was closing 42 DWP offices with a loss of 1,100 jobs (or up to 3,000 jobs according to the Unions).
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  2008. In the Leicester car park Richard III's body was found under the R for Reserved (parking space).
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  2009.  @GoldenbanjoDJ  In what sense are they lefty. Because they don't reflect your views?
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  2010. Capitalist competition is supposed to stop prices rising, particularly in a slump where demand is low. That's how capitalism is supposed to work, according to economists and capitalist theorists.
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  2011. It's funny how people many people can't face the truth when it's not to their liking.
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  2012. Johnson's loyal chum, that's how.
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  2013.  @fatherson5907  How do you do the financial comparison to reach that conclusion, since the NHS is funded by a proportion of people's taxes which is not usually specified unless you research it? You'd also have to take into account how ill you will be throughout life since you don't pay more, no matter how many times you need the service.
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  2014. I don't think he means he's not concerned about the deaths of people, but not concerned in terms of vaccine safety, which he's going to explain, but he didn't express that very well.
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  2015. A hard Brexit was always going to damage the fishing industry. Fish are only wanted if sold fresh. Most of the fish that British fishermen caught was the kind that Europeans wanted but British people largely did not. A hard Brexit has put too many expensive bureaucratic barriers in the way of selling them to the EU. The fish that the British prefer (cod and other white fish) are normally caught around Norway but Britain failed to get a deal with Norway after Brexit because they would not agree to Norway's conditions. This is a failure of politicians to care about or do research into the fishing industry before Brexit and that includes Farage who still seems to think there's some Brexit gain to be realised, and it also includes fishermen who believed the fairytales being spun.
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  2016.  @adrianrouse5148  What is Brexit? Brexit is leaving the EU which means leaving the benefits of being in the EU. We left the EU. We left those benefits. Of course we left under the hardest Brexit and could have gone for a softer one. All the leave literature, before the Referendum implied that we wouldn't be going for the hardest version but in the end the hardest version is what Boris and the ERG wanted. I don't understand why some Brexiteers don't seem to understand this. They seem to think there was a Unicorn version of Brexit to be had which was leaving the EU and keeping all the benefits without paying into that club. That was never a realistic aim.
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  2017. David V. When Sergei Magnitsky (acountant) was investigating tax corruption in Russia, he was imprisoned and beaten up and killed in jail. A political opponent of Putin, Boris Nemtsov, was assassinated 2 days before he was to take part in a peace rally against Russia's 'involvement in the war in Ukraine and the financial crisis in Russia'. That's how your rule of law works
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  2018. @Wally Davidson No good asking a dumb President. You get a dumb answer.
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  2019. One thing he could do is reclaim all the furlough money that was fraudulently claimed by zombie companies, but he didn't do it when he was Chancellor so I don't see him doing it now. Why should people suffer spending cuts when fraudsters are allowed to get off scot free?
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  2020. Yes they got the most brilliant actors and actresses who look like doctors and nurses and who sound as though they know what they are doing and who can look shocked and drained. Then they hired more actors to look and act really sick and have loads of needles and equipment inserted in them. They also hired a hospital and equipment. What are you nuts?
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  2021.  @ruthhadfield9726  She was pretty dumb when Heseltine quoted the Telegraph as now admitting Brexit was no good and she failed to listen or understand that he was referencing The Telegraph.
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  2022.  @imemine6494  I care about both things.
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  2023. *worse
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  2024. The poor are never masters. Do you think the world outside of Europe is a neutral zone? No, it's a shark pool in trade terms and we'll be a small shark in a pool of very big sharks. You don't have to be in the European Union to be bullied.
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  2025. Insurgence is the wrong word. The English were never insurgents in Irish history. Colonialism is perhaps the right word.
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  2026. And Boris will now give you a kicking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24du25osgRY
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  2027. I don't doubt what you say but I think another reason Corbyn lost the election was that he sat on the wall a bit over Brexit. He did offer another Referendum on it if I remember correctly to try and tease out whether people still wanted it and if so what kind of Brexit. Unfortunately most people seemed fed up with the Brexit issue dragging on so long and didn't want more delay. Another issue is that rightly or wrongly people felt that Corbyn was more interested in international affairs than those in the UK and I don't think he explained that his Manifesto was to be achieved over more than one Parliament so some people didn't believe it was feasible. Also sadly many people never read the Manifestos of political parties.
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  2028. Sweet guy.
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  2029. *accept
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  2030.  @ozzie2612  Those who care about British culture?
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  2031.  @EricBlair-jg2ux  Doesn't even look like propaganda. You can't fake those feelings.
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  2032. Nowhere. The money didn't exist. They weren't true losses. The system at busy times would not 'complete' sub postmasters postings or transactions and the system would make repeat attempts until it could 'complete'. However the attempts would still register on the system as transactions producing duplicate, triplicate or multiple postings. This was complicated by Horizon headquarters being able to alter sub-postmasters accounts in real time without them knowing. The Horizon system was a database rather than an accounting system so didn't produce histories of transactions. It was never fit for purpose and they never consulted end users when designing it which is a fatal flaw. The sub-postmasters- repayments to the P.O. were counted among their 'profits'.
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  2033. What is Britain? It is its people. Corbyn does not want to bring down its people. The Tories are already doing that.
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  2034. So Trump gets all the help he needs but no one else does - he sees to that.
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  2035. I wish James O'Brien would curb his tendency to interrupt all the time.
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  2036. What about wrapping a thick scarf around your face?
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  2037. Probably suffering from psychosis
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  2038.  @stuffanthings  Because historically the BBC is more trustworthy than conspiracy sites.
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  2039.  @Thre1152  Not really. you have to know about risk levels and different types of vaccines but some are life savers. I know. I was diagnosed with cancer in 2001 but I'm still here thanks to modern medicine. Doctors don't set out to harm people. Their motto is 'First do no harm'.
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  2040.  @fringemajority8805  @ 'All of the sudden' implies there is only one sudden in the world.
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  2041. I think Johnson does know when he's lying. He could not manipulate people if he was that unaware.
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  2042. I suppose it was Truss's to lose, given the results of membership surveys which show her as more popular among party members, but at the hustings, it seems Sunak often comes out ahead, so she may in fact be doing more damage to her reputation in these events. However there's always the racist element of the party who aren't going to go for him.
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  2043. It's not a history programme. It's a drama and Shakespeare himself played fast and loose with historical facts in his dramas. It's a good performance too.
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  2044. Remainer. A remainder is something you find in a bargain bucket or a leftover from a division sum.
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  2045. They probably make their money as an offshore tax haven, not that it's shared out among the population.
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  2046. Cox kept giving the wrong legal advice but it was what Boris wanted to hear. Perhaps he started to give the right legal advice and Boris didn't want to hear it. That's what they usually mean by 'not a team player'. Leadsom is both dim and also only wanted power because it's useful to her brother the hedge fund manager, and I think her husband also has business relations with him.
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  2047.  @mariogmajner6549  That's just a meaningless slogan. This is what it means to Boris. This is what you're now getting and don't say you weren't warned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24du25osgRY
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  2048. Eh? Have you listened to this video. It's obviously gone over your head.
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  2049. I don't think we know the circumstances of this case do we, but things can happen that are no fault of the occupants. One time a 'gas safe engineer', 'repaired' my boiler. He didn't reconnect a gas pipe correctly. I had intended to leave the house (to go to work) at the same time as him, when he finished, but I hung around for a few minutes and suddenly there was a massive smell of gas. The pipe connection had slipped and there was a massive gas leak. I switched the gas off and rang the emergency number, but I think if I'd left the same time as him there would have been no house to come back to, and neighbours would have been affected too as I live in a terrace house..
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  2050. OMG. He must think Rishi's been in long enough and it's his turn. It's the Minister for the 19th century, raring to take us back there. Not 'The Man who Knew Too Much' but 'The Man Who Knows Nothing'. I can see the film now and it's a horror.
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  2051. Boris can't sack him because Boris has had affairs himself with people he's appointed.
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  2052.  @nige5902  That's not a definition of terrorism which is different from being terrorised. All violence terrorises people but terrorism (as with most words ending with ism) has political or religious motivations.
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  2053. What evidence do you have that these are overpaid since any wage rises have been below inflation for years while workloads have been growing and and consequently he services have found it difficult to fill vacancies and staff opt to go abroad where health service pay rates are higher?
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  2054.  @snowyowel7961  The IFS criticised both Labour and Tory Manifestos. This comment was about the Tory one 'The analysis also highlights the high risk of a no-deal Brexit at the end of 2020, if Boris Johnson wins the election, after he ruled out extending the transition period during which the UK will remain aligned with the EU. Calling it another “die in a ditch” style promise, the IFS said: “That would harm the economy and of course increase the debt and deficit.” And it warned the Tory prospectus would leave spending on public services other than health a striking 14 per cent lower in 2024 than when austerity began in 2010. “No more austerity perhaps, but an awful lot of it baked in,” said Paul Johnson, the IFS director.'
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  2055. @Andrew Battersby That's just a slogan. Actually the UK government controls 99% of UK spending and could have given power to the people any time they wanted to. They never wanted to.
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  2056. It's democracy playing out. The government is trying to trick Parliament to end up with a no deal and and Parliament is trying to block them from doing that because it doesn't want a no deal and I think most of the country don't want a no deal because it will harm them. The only people who would benefit from it are, the very wealthy, corporate tax avoiders, hedge fund managers and those who gamble against the UK's performance in a practice called 'shorting'. There are plenty of those backing the Tory no dealers.
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  2057. None of them will get anywhere with the EU and a disastrous no deal looms.
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  2058.  @tomservo5007  True but I think that would only happen under a dictatorship or authoritarian regime, er, just like Trump is aiming for.
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  2059.  @mydogeatspuke  Made by capitalist corporations? How does that work?
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  2060.  @zotharr  All viruses spread more in Winter because people spend more time indoors.
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  2061. I hope you are going to appeal the decision. Many decisions are overturned on appeal though it is cruel to make people go through that.
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  2062. Because Covid can speed up death for the already ill.
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  2063.  @tomclarke5237  I seem to remember Farage saying the Germans would cave in to British demands eventually in order to save the German car industry. Maybe that's what Boris still believes as he heads off to see Angela Merkel but I don't see it happening. For the Germans, the EU project is about much more than one German industry. It's about security from ever returning to the bad history of Germany.
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  2064.  @daydays12  It's any government he doesn't agree with, I expect.
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  2065.  @tlotpwist3417  Do you mean Richard III?
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  2066. She needs to work on her vocabulary. She said 'rectify' instead of 'rationalise' (rationalize in US spelling).
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  2067. She has to explain things slowly and clearly as if to an idiot.
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  2068. These young people need to get out more and talk to their contemporaries in the South, but there are vested interests in keeping them ignorant and fearful.
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  2069. I suppose the first step is to have an interest in other people and their quirks.
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  2070.  @Billy2011C  Cummings was caught. He was visited by the police but they've decided to go easy on him (probably as they don't want to get involved with political shit)
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  2071. No. He's Scottish and has a Scottish accent. I thought everyone knew. Everyone has an accent though.
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  2072.  @davidpowell6098  Lol.
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  2073. CryptedSky. Oho! "Politeness" is not a concept Trump is familiar with. No wonder he's running scared of you.
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  2074. Sunak is going for the rat runner vote.
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  2075. If he's so anxious he should have taken action sooner to stop it entering the country.
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  2076. Breaking the rules he created when others ARE being punished (fined) for doing the same is a case of thinking the rules don't apply to him but only to the 'masses'. Boris also thought the rules didn't apply to him which is why he boasted of shaking the hands of everyone he met in a hospital shortly before coming down with Covid. He may well have been the one who passed it to colleagues Hancock and Raab and the Chief Medical Officer also.
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  2077. Probably not.
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  2078. People died without any compensation or without the truth coming out. Some were suicides. They can't get back the ruin that was done to their lives. In their local communities they were thought of as thieves losing their reputations, treated as liars, experiencing hate and what's worse the PO pursued these cases even after they knew there was no real evidence of theft and there were problems with the software system, and still the Post Office deliberately covered up.
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  2079. 'Mad dogs and Englishmen' etc. He was said to be feeling unwell when he set out. My guess is that he was already suffering from heatstroke and it affected his judgement.
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  2080. That would be Labour policy - to hold a referendum where the choice is between remain in the EU or a leave deal that involves staying in the customs union. However the Conservatives do not want that because their right wing ideology sees the future model for Britain as another Singapore - so they think.
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  2081.  @garyt123  Yes. I thought that and for some reason it didn't sound right to me when I thought it, so I changed it to eggs. It was one of those moments.
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  2082. Germany has its own manufacturers. Ours have been gradually closed down since Margaret Thatcher said we didn't need them and even recently hard Brexiteers , such as economist Patrick Minford, were saying we didn't need manufacturing in this country - we could just buy everything in. Hope they realise how stupid that is now.
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  2083.  @adamsbeclosing  He's not a wrecker of his country for his own personal gain like Trump is. Trump is scared of all the legal cases that will be taken against him when he leaves office. If he gets elected a second time, I expect he will want to change the law that says Presidents can only serve 2 terms. Frankly one term of him is one term too long.
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  2084. The 'swamp' is anyone who stands in the way of his lies and criminality. Haven't you figured that out yet?
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  2085.  @noob1128  Maybe they'd have more children if men helped out more with childcare. You can't blame women for having careers. If they rely solely on men for a family income, and those men run out, the women may be left destitute with children. Also if men don't help with housework, for a woman that's like having an extra child to clear up after.
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  2086. Nah. We already have laws that people have to comply with and if it was all about compliance more laws could have been created a long time ago. It's only about compliance while there's a pandemic on for protection of public health. Unfortunately we may be stuck with this virus. We can hope it weakens.
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  2087. A medical scientist once said 'We spend years studying science and medicine and years getting professional qualifications and years (normally) developing cures and treatments and the response of some commenter on social media is 'bollocks'.
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  2088. Rarity will add to their value in future.
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  2089. 16:12. Ironically Boris did get a deal and it was going through Parliament when he pulled it himself. He didn't want to give Parliament time to scrutinise it or amend it as his objective always was to leave with a no deal. His 'deal' with the EU originally was just a vehicle to try and escape having to comply with the Benn Act and asking the EU for an extension.
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  2090. Can we have an update on the careers of the cats, Larry from 10 Downing St, Palmerston from the Foreign Office and Gladstone who used to be in the Chancellor's Office, otherwise I shall think disappearances are sinister.
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  2091. We won't regret it. It feels good to have protection from the worst Covid can do.
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  2092. *'ensure' 'are corrected'. (There, I've corrected your failures)
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  2093. I'm not sure it's a matter of cost. Britain didn't make PPE and was getting it from China. China shut its industry down for a long time while it dealt with Covid and then the whole world was trying to get hold of more PPE as it's a pandemic. Companies in the UK are making some of it now but say they've not received orders for it. Sounds like the supply chain and the delivery chain is stretched.
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  2094.  @TheAArmstrong  Adults can also use arrows with rubber suckers on the end for target shooting.
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  2095. Why would the Independent heading refer to an Australia style deal when Australia has no deal with the EU?
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  2096. Yes I subsequently listened Andrew Brigden's actual statement about this and it didn't seem to depend on him thinking that he had any Irish ancestry. He just assumed that because he could travel to Ireland without a passport, he was entitled to Irish citizenship if he applied for it. Lol. Under the Good Friday agreement, I understand people in the North of Ireland can hold both British and Irish passports if they wish. Perhaps that also muddled Andrew Brigden's thinking. It's amazing how dim some of these politicians are though. Dominic Raab, currently standing for Conservative Party leader and therefore de facto P.M admitted he didn't realise the importance of the port of Dover for UK/EU trade, until he was appointed Brexit Secretary, a post he soon resigned from, but a subject he now feels qualified to deal with as P.M. Heaven help us! A person with Irish ancestry (parent or grandparent) can apply for Irish citizenship and I have my application ready, because I can see us heading for a hard Brexit now which would be disastrous.
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  2097.  Rahul D  If you watch the news you will see plenty of women and children on the flights.
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  2098.  @victorspencer9159  Well there'll be time before the next election for people to find out how Brexit pans out for them, so I wouldn't write him off too soon. Anyway he may well accept the result of the recent vote. It's *renege by the way. It's astonishing how many Brexiters can't spell. I think it must be because they read nothing more taxing than the Sun or The Daily Mail.
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  2099. Don't be delusional.
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  2100. I think he could sound a bit more passionate, rather than seeming like he's just reading something he's not personally engaged with. It's the manner of the courts that he's used to, where reasoned argument prevails, but I fear he won't catch the public attention with such self effacing manners. It's maybe just not in him though, to be otherwise.
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  2101.  @howareyou857  I know it's stressful. I meant it as an observation not a criticism.
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  2102. Wrong way around. They film it themselves or ask the media along.
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  2103.  @guff9567  The reality of capitalism is minds that think like yours. You've perhaps not noticed that it's the Tories that have been in power for the last decade and it's in that decade that more people including working people have fallen into poverty.
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  2104.  @guff9567  I'm not saying everyone can be rich but the gap between rich and poor in the UK has been growing ever wider under the Tories with the pressures on the poor ever increasing, whereas the gap between rich and poor in Scandinavian countries is nowhere near as wide. The safety net for the poorest is a lot better there and the Scandinavian countries regularly come in the top 10 in the world happiness index. A much better system.
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  2105. There was hardly any difference between David Milliband's views and Tony Blair's. I don't think people would have been keen on a Blair 2.
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  2106. The government counts spending that goes to private firms providing services on NHS contracts, as spending on the NHS, but private firms siphon off a profit element. There wasn't a 'structural issue with the NHS that needs to be addressed' before the Tories got their hands on it.
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  2107. I've read Paul Murray Kendall book and many others. I believe it's possible that Richard had good qualities but he also lived in a time that was dog eat dog and he knew he had to be ruthless to survive after Edward IV's death, or he felt like that. After all the Woodvilles didn't like him and that included Edwards two young sons who were half Woodvilles and closer to their Woodville kin, especially their Woodville Uncles, and they didn't like or trust Richard after he killed their Woodville Uncle and their Woodville half brother. Richard was asserting his right to be Regent while the boys were young but he soon realised he would be subject to Woodville revenge once the elder boy was old enough to rule without a Regent..
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  2108.  @paulmcmillan533  The disease didn't happen after the vaccine though. The disease came first then the vaccine was developed.
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  2109.  @Mounhas  Indeed.
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  2110. *breaking
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  2111. Does that absolve the predator from responsibility?
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  2112. It can also cause long term chronic conditions for survivors.
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  2113. All logic and no creativity - boring. It used to be called 'programming'. I'm not sure why and when it changed to 'coding'.
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  2114. We live with flu now because we have vaccines. A greater threat to our children and children's children is climate change and the pollution and destruction of the planet.
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  2115. Jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, but making sure the whole story is told seems a good solution.
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  2116. He came, he saw, he was an arse.
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  2117. Farage, the man who tried to get elected 7 times and failed - one time being beaten by someone dressed as a dolphin.
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  2118. A King is not always above a Queen 'by definition', he is only above a Queen who is a Queen by marriage but not above a Queen who is Queen in her own right as was Elizabeth II. They would be equals in this case, under normal circumstances. However if this was before 1963, Nigeria was part of the British Empire so technically she was the overlord then, but refusing to bow to her is a meaningful gesture against colonialism and towards independence.
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  2119.  @nicolaiqbal6823  I try to avoid buying from Amazon and try to buy locally whenever possible. However I do have local shops unlike many people. I find also that it's not always more expensive to buy locally - quite often cheaper.
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  2120. May has never fired anyone for incompetence. In fact she hired incompetent people like Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary. Her judgement about people's characters and competence is appalling, so I think we'll be stuck with Failing Grayling for some time to come. Watch out for the next expensive mistake.
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  2121. It's not the elites you are being shafted by. You are shafting yourselves and your representatives are trying to protect you from your own idiocy - all except Boris of course. He's happy with idiocy as long as he's King of the dunghill
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  2122. No. Boris is quite capable of discrediting himself by his own behaviour, that's if he's got any credit left.
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  2123.  @andrewheaney6858  My Uncle applied for British citizenship in the 1970s. He'd lived in Britain since the age of 4 but because he was born in Ireland before 1922, the British authorities said he was automatically regarded as British.
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  2124. No. Men who have worked with the British in Afghanistan and there are women and children on these flights.
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  2125.  @Jay...777  That does not sound right. The Sun shining towards a body makes a shadow behind the body but the Sun is still shining on the front of the body. The air is not polluted everywhere.
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  2126.  @siboneypeltier2307  What are the side effects of those other drugs you mention?
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  2127.  Reggie Cyde  or eyesight even
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  2128. Evidence?
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  2129. *are (Dumb are people who can't write grammatically)
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  2130. I don't think Basildon and Billericay constituency should allow themselves to be taken for granted.
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  2131.  @HenryBooth-mf2fk  You're a bit Offa target there. Offa was King of Mercia only.
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  2132. There was not enough support in Parliament for 'no deal' and it needed to get through Parliament but she knew that no deal would be disastrous for the economy as did the majority on Parliament. Watch the next leader make a complete 'balls up' of it also. If Brexiteers ever get a hard Brexit, I predict they will be the first to howl when they feel the effects of it, cast blame elsewhere, and get nasty with anyone they come across, especially immigrants.
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  2133.  @steffanhoffmann8937  Yes that would be the UK also.
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  2134.  @paulhoye9680  Your gobbledegook is impressive.
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  2135. Good. I hope they get rid of them all so there will be no one to carry out this government's stupid policies. It's 'lancing'.
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  2136. She got the role because she is an excellent actress.
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  2137. Let's hope they get no unwanted 'presents'.
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  2138.  @stanbalo  I've had chicken pox without it leaving marks. Each disease is different. It's smallpox that was known for leaving marks. Thankfully that's been eradicated through the vaccination programme.
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  2139.  wasupthere  He did not suggest he was going to visit Smithklein Glaxo. Perhaps he missed a trick there. It still would not have stood up though. Why would he have taken his wife and child to a work meeting with Smithklein Glaxo on her birthday.
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  2140.  Russian Métropolitan  So he broke the RTA law by driving with risky eyesight and also risked the life of his wife and child by driving with risky eyesight and he had to do a 60 miles round trip to test his eyesight and he had to do it on his wife's birthday and take her to a beauty spot to test his eyesight. None of his excuses are believable.
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  2141. Who knew that friends can't pass on Covid?
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  2142.  @jonnybyrne989  It's not habitual, and that was Tony Blair, not typical Labour by any means. He was an admirer of Margaret Thatcher.
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  2143. None of this government do.
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  2144. Planned by whom? Those who couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery?
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  2145.  Leroy Jenkins v3.0  Covid may have something to do with that.
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  2146.  @LexxLarsD  The only advantage Spain has is the weather, and perhaps the food.
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  2147. Sabotaging pay talks, while taking the cap off bankers' bonuses and seeking to deregulate the banks.
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  2148.  @deanthorpe1684 This is a free comment section so I don't have to shut up because you say so.
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  2149.  @WhatSoEverThingsAreLovely  👍
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  2150. There's some woodland I walk through to my allotment in a city and the 'friends' of that space are always 'tidying' it and 'improving' it and I wish they'd just leave it to do its own thing, but then would the 'friends' feel they had a purpose. Perhaps their purpose should just be to monitor and guard it.
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  2151.  @greeny202ab  Reasons are not a road map. (The 'how' we get there). The reasons you gave are that we are creatively and intellectually capable. That's true but without investment in those capabilities they won't take us there. Your second reason was that democratic nation states are the most responsive and dynamic means of responding to the aspirations of its citizens but that doesn't happen automatically either. You have to have a government that is willing to respond to the aspirations of its citizens rather than to the aspirations of a wealthy elite. Aspirations may not become reality just because people are wishing it so if the mechanism by which they hope to achieve those aspirations is flawed or is not one that will work for them. I would not say that people aspire to a poorer but the Tories' current agreement with the EU, moves worker's rights and the environment from the mandatory part of the agreement to the political declaration which means they become aspirations that can be dropped by the government at any time (e.g. after re-election) and those are only minimum standards. Countries within the EU are free to increase standards above the minimum but not below. So by dropping them from the mandatory part of the agreement the only 'gain' by the UK government is the freedom to go below the minimum. That in itself should raise an alarm signal about the direction we're headed in.
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  2152.  @greeny202ab  Don't make such assumptions. It's an error on your part. I was born in the 1950s. Things are not the same trade wise and economically as they were before the EU. Globalisation of the economy is much greater. In the UK, Thatcher began it in the 1980s when restrictions on moving investments around the globe were loosened. We are not operating in the same environment. It's no good looking to the past and thinking we can recreate what we did then. You have to look realistically at how things are now.
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  2153. Some people manage to find ways to 'grind their axes' in comments on every other subject, even when it's obviously irrelevant. So far 7 people have agreed with the comment that the way back from Japan is via EU customs - mindblowing, and assume that customs declarations are a one way imposition rather than an inevitable and foreseen consequence of Brexit that they probably voted for.
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  2154. I'm pretty sure government Ministers broke the rules in accepting these hair brained schemes which gave Greensill access to public funds and exposed those funds to such risk. Greensill was treated as if they were part of government and allowed access to all Departments at will. The taxpayer will undoubtedly pick up the bill as usual. I'm sure there are Treasury rules, to protect public funds, that will have been ignored or overridden.
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  2155.  Elizabeth Medina  The Big boys? - more like the overgrown infantile idiots
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  2156. Ah, there it is. I live not too far away from Hampstead ( a few miles) but I've seen no snow.
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  2157.  @manishdyall4779  How is it imperialism when the UK government signed up to it?
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  2158. Divide and rule is what the Tories rely on. Setting workers against each other is a common tactic. The government could end this strike any time they wanted to.
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  2159. I don't think they are counting people outside of hospitals because they are not testing people outside of hospitals.
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  2160. * analytical
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  2161.  @jakedickson2311  It's crazy indeed and there is no solution that would please everyone in NI and the Tory government. I remember pointing this out in a youtube comment after the Referendum vote in 2016, but no one took any notice. Lol. The 6% are the hard line 'never agree with anyone ever unless they get their own way' mob who vote for the DUP. They never agreed to the GFA and never agreed to power sharing. There is no solution that everyone would be happy with, indeed, but pandering to the 6% would break the Good Friday Agreement. The government has not yet tried 'implementing the protocol'. After all NI got a better deal than the rest of the UK. As the British Foreign Secretary put it, if such a deal was offered to the rest of the UK they would be biting hands off to get it.
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  2162. * should've or should have (learn English)
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  2163. Larry wonders why his territory is always being invaded. Who would dare pension hm off?
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  2164. Do you have some examples? It's not a history, it's a novel so you would not expect complete accuracy, partly because the author would have to guess some scenes that are not recorded in history and partly because of dramatic licence. My surpise was how forthright Cromwell was sometimes in expressing his (unwelcome) views to Henry. Historically I don't think he would have dared.
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  2165. She's the Mother of the House now. I'm hoping she doesn't get as many racist and sexist remarks now.
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  2166. True, and that's his strength but also his weakness sometimes from UK voters perspectives because many of them think he doesn't care that much about the British. He would probably be great as a leader of an internationally focused body. He would like the Labour Party to be that but voters want someone who will look after their interests.
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  2167.  @margaretobrien2015  I read his manifesto. I know that his policies are in the interests of British citizens as a whole, except maybe for the wealthiest, but I don't think he gets that message across personally.
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  2168.  @georgewright9914  Brown actually saved the world capitalist finance systems from collapse and along with them, whole countries' economies.
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  2169. There isn't one because they made it up. The furniture between them you can see would make such a perspective impossible.
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  2170. That was Johnson.
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  2171.  @beati7706  What diseases do you mean? None cause exactly the same symptoms. Look up some videos on autopsies of Covid patients. I would say that extra hand washing, mask wearing and lockdowns would protect people from colds and flu, not just Covid. A lot of diseases are preventable by good hygiene.
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  2172.  @lor6632  If there's a positive Covid test and death occurs within 28 days it will be logged as a Covid death. Those are the rules, but if the death occurs outside of 28 days it will not be recorded as a Covid death even if it was - so swings and roundabouts.
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  2173. And missed the out of work actors (both of them) aspect of the movie.
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  2174. Not right through... sometimes he just looked appalled.
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  2175. It is a game to him but not to Labour.
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  2176.  @4309chris  Empty of non Covid patients because overwhelmed with Covid patients who have to be kept in quarantined areas.
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  2177.  @masterthespeed7830  knew. Not all of it was known if even the OBR didn't know it. Did you listen to the video?
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  2178. Trump's rule 3. 'Never admit defeat. Always claim victory'. (Rule 1 is attack and rule 2 is deny).
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  2179. This is the deliberate creation of a 'hostile environment' to discourage the claiming of benefits. It's the work or die philosophy. Never mind whether it makes sense to push people so low they can't raise themselves up again. Never mind people's circumstances that may prevent them from working. Never mind that they have to survive 5 weeks without any money.
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  2180. Looks like an alien.
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  2181. Lavrov talks such bollocks. The West declared nothing. It responded to Russia's invasion.
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  2182. The funny thing is the brick houses look attractive in themselves from the outside and are solidly built it seems but not well maintained by landlords. They just don't have the facilities and space to make life comfortable and the inhabitants don't have the money to live comfortably and well and the rooms are overcrowded and insanitary. Unemployment would be high and work lowly paid. Education would be basic or non existent.
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  2183. I also loved him as the slimy Mr Slope in the BBC2 TV series "Barchester Chronicles", released in 1982, based on the books by Anthony Trollope. He wasn't the star of the show, but has become much more famous since, so the DVD packaging now tends to present him as if he was the lead. It had lots of other good British actors in too. I don't think it was seen in the USA.
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  2184. Vern Buchanan thinks the past participle of the verb to forgive is forgived. Not enough education there it seems. How can they rack up such enormous debts especially if they were working to fund themselves as they said?
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  2185.  @DzsM-rz7gu  Who is Reynold?
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  2186. Also, going for a walk is seen as weird or potentially criminal activity in the US.
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  2187.  @rogerbennett9641  He has run several government departments as Secretary of State
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  2188.  @veggie42  Margaret Thatcher was an admirer of Augusto Pinochet and vice versa. Such policies hurt ordinary people. Pinochet was a Dictator who rose to power by killing his democratically elected predecessor Salvador Allende. Margaret Thatcher was democratically elected but a very divisive politician setting groups against each other and calling British coal miners 'The enemy within'.
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  2189. Because she was crowned Queen alongside Charles when he was crowned King.
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  2190. 'is there a tunnel' or 'are there tunnels'. 'Fun fact': Israel built a lot of the tunnels in Gaza that they implied Hamas had built.
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  2191. This is well below the police's minimum payscale, so is it true?
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  2192. Well they are not going to use their own Russian names. It's often through social media, not through bona fide news channels
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  2193. Because Nigeria before 1963 was a part of the British Empire so technically she was his overlord.
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  2194.  @capuchinseven  That's not true. EU countries each chose how to handle the banking crisis and aftermath. Portugal for instance, never had an austerity policy.
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  2195.  @paulungureanu937  There''s no evidence that were cast after the election day or that such votes were counted. Votes that were cast on or before election date were counted even if they arrived after that date as long as they arrived within a certain time. That was allowed because of the logistic difficulties caused by Covid and it's within the discretion of the states I understand. Voters on the day tended to favour Trump. Postal votes, which were counted later, tended to favour Biden. That's why he caught up and apparently traditionally postal votes have tended to favour democrats. As I said, there has been no evidence of fraud presented by Trump's lawyers. Don't forget though that it was Trump who told his supporters to vote on the day and it was he who also told them to vote twice, by mail and on the day. He also put his friend in charge of the mail service, refused to fund it to cope with the extra work involved with the election and allowed his friend to decommission a lot of sorting machines, all in an effort to sabotage the postal voting system. As for right and left, that's up to the American people to decide. In my view it's better to have an ageing President than a malign one.
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  2196.  @paulungureanu937  There's no evidence presented to the courts to support what this guy is saying. There were observers from democrats and republicans at the counts. The only ones not admitted were additional Republican ones that wanted to go in on the day when there were already observers there as agreed in the election proceedings. You can't just decide to muscle in with extra ones on the day. The 10 fold increase in postal votes was because people preferred that method more during the time of Covid, and because the election was very divisive (Trump is either a character that people tend to love or hate) and more people voted. Also the number of voting stations were reduced in some states that meant people would have to travel farther to vote. Postal voting was preferred to extra travel by many voters. As for not 'scrubbing' the registers. There is no evidence that there were any fraudulent votes in the name of people who had died or others ineligible to vote. People who are temporarily out of state are still entitled to vote in their homes states if they are in the military or if they are students. He's suggesting foul play but he doesn't quote any concrete evidence. It's nonsense. If they think they have any proof of fraud they should bring it before the courts. No one has managed to produce any such evidence so far. That's enough from me now. I suggest you read a bit more widely from different sources rather than asking me everything.
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  2197.  @martinjohnson9316  Rubbish. These are the 7 principles of public life. UK's Seven principles of public life Selflessness Integrity Objectivity Accountability Openness Honesty Leadership.
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  2198. That's not how it works. UK's Seven principles of public life Selflessness Integrity Objectivity Accountability Openness Honesty Leadership.
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  2199. They are surrounded by people who have similar mindsets and that shores up their own. In certain areas life is nice and they see trivial things like 'wokeism' as the main issue, and are content to be selfish and small minded, and prefer those who facilitate their selfishness and small mindedness. Thinking deeply or researching anything is not their strong suit.
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  2200. It reduces the severity of the disease and the risk of getting long Covid.
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  2201. I'm not a Tory supporter, far from it, but I support this policy though it would have been fairer to make it an increase on income tax rather than NI. However I understand that income tax in the UK is not wholly under the control of the Westminster government as it's a devolved matter where Wales, Scotland and NI are concerned, so I understand why they chose NI and most people link the term NI with public service benefits. Social Care is not just for the rich. In fact the rich can afford their own social care without relying on state provision. It's the poor that need it most. This has been a problem growing over the years because of an ageing population and the Tories have actually made cuts to funding for social care since 2010. Social care allows elderly people to be cared for at home as far as practicable rather than going into care homes which are not always nice and which are reducing in number anyway. Care homes also take out a profit element. They are expensive and many people can't afford them and are left at home with inadequate care or end up bed blocking in hospitals because there is no one to care for them at home. Successive government have pledged to do something about funding social care but have baulked at the risk this poses from potential voter backlash (Voters don't generally like tax increases, and governments both Labour and Conservative have therefore kicked the can down the road while the problems in social care provision have got steadily worse). People who pay this extra tax now will know that they can rely on better services when they themselves get old and need them and as I understand it though pensioners don't normally pay NI, the government will be introducing this element for working pensioners. Most people don't object to paying tax for the NHS, why should they object to paying it for social care if they know they will benefit? Boris in doing this has broken a Manifesto pledge but he also pledged to solve the issue of funding social care, so he has broken one pledge to fund another. The public finances are in a bad state from Covid and after Brexit and the money has to come from somewhere. It would have helped though if Boris hadn't spaffed over £50bn of public money on ineffective Covid measures (test and trace being the main one) where contracts went largely to Tory friends and supporters, without competition, and they were never published as required by law. Experts reported that this service didn't make much difference to outcomes. This policy still has to get through Parliament.
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  2202. @Joe Bloggs. Yep. I'm a female - therefore a multi-tasker. I've also re-grouted the kitchen tiles - looks nice.
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  2203.  @warrenp8877  He started again after a while though so it didn't last.
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  2204. He has some prosthetic make up.
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  2205. Football/soccer, is not 'easy'. It's easy to be bad at, but hard to be good at because of the skill level required to play the best teams.
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  2206. All blather.
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  2207. +Jillyy No
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  2208. The residents have also previously complained of power surges in the building as a fire risk. I wonder whether the electrics were properly installed.
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  2209. tony morgan. They are doing the forensics now. There have been power surges in the building in the past which caused electrical goods to explode. That was meant to have been fixed but until they get to the cause of the fridge going on fire, I'm guessing the manufacturers consider it would not be appropriate to call in all fridges. In any case recently there was a problem with certain models of tumble driers which caused many of them to go on fire, nothing to do with Grenfell Tower, but the manufacturers did not call the driers in. Instead they started a programme of fixing them but it took a long time and still may not be finished. People were not happy. They were given advice not to leave them while in use. We had one of those but it's fixed now.
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  2210. spiro. It's not a scientific hypothesis. I think it's now an accepted fact but not everyone may know the cause of the roundness of the Earth. He explains how the pressure of gravity compresses the Earth into a round shape. Did you want him to quote a scientific formula for it? I'm sure you can consult a text book if you want more details about the physics of it. It wouldn't make very entertaining TV though.
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  2211. spiro I like the way you address me as Sherlock and Einstein. I like both of them. There's really no need you know.
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  2212. spiro I'm not a scientist but I'd say gravity exerts force. As you're so clever why don't you explain it to everyone.
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  2213. spiro NASA defines gravity as a force. Are you saying they are wrong and you are right? https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=is+gravity+a+force&oq=is+gravity+a&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.4737j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8. I see that Newton and Einstein disagree about whether gravity is a force. I'm certainly not the one to arbitrate on that one. We just need to know what the theories are, if we're interested.
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  2214. Michael Hayes. What he's done for London so far is: increased the London Living Wage, capped many Transport for London fares, also introduced 2 bus journeys for one fare as long as they are taken within an hour, stopped the wasteful and expensive vanity project (London Garden Bridge), ensured bus drivers changing companies have their experience recognised and don't start back on the lowest rate of pay, increased his budget contribution to the police (though he can't match the enormous cuts to that budget by the government which have resulted incuts to youth workers (500) cuts to Sure Start Centres and cuts to projects designed to keep young people away from gangs). He has increased stop and search since the increase in knife crime. He has consulted on ways to cut back air pollution. He has objectives to ensure more affordable house building. He has given considerable sums of money to charities for housing the homeless. What you need to take into account is that the government's plan is to cut central funding to local authorities down to ZERO by 2020 and cuts have been taking place for a year or two now towards that target as well as cuts driven by austerity. Also as a result of government cuts 20,000 police officer jobs have been lost since 2010. I'm not sure whether race relations are at boiling point but certainly any black person in authority appearing on the internet e.g. on youtube tends to attract a lot of racists who like to make racist comments. You could have found this out for yourself if you'd looked it up but you prefer to sit in ignorance shouting "what's he ever done for London?"
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  2215. +cheesy on Saturday (KITTY D) I don't know why so many Americans seem to be so easily bowled over by empty sloganising. Are they children or what?
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  2216. A Shakespeare sonnet
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  2217. No justification for those comments Sandy239 b and AidBlade Studios. Other politicians were not brave enough to do this except with selected audiences. We need more politicians like this that don't hide away from the public at times like this.
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  2218. P.S Governments can borrow money at historically low rates of interest in order to invest in things that will bring security to people and create economic growth. The Conservatives choose not to invest in such things but make the public sector raise money from the private sector through expensive PFI schemes which are crippling the finances of schools and the NHS.. Investment borrowing can be paid off by growth in the economy which raises more tax. Businesses invest for growth all the time in order to expand. People do it all the time in order to buy their houses or other large purchases. At the same time he is raising taxes for the top 5% of taxpayers, and corporation tax, but corporation tax would still be lower than in 2010 and one of the lowest in Europe (apart from Ireland)
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  2219.  @horatiohuskisson5471  Smart on Ancient Greek and Modern bullshit. Not so good when it comes to knowing about things that matter to people but very entertaining, granted.
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  2220. Sounds painful.
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  2221. +Samantha W I suppose you know all about being blindly led. Yes it's "led" not "lead".
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  2222. Miles, It's not a shithole. How dare you! I'm sure only people who've never lived there say ignorant things like that.
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  2223. jasavak. That's clearly unfair, if true, but the embargo starves the economy as a whole.
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  2224. +Brittany Hollander Who does he stare at?
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  2225. For 17 years Farage has taken his EU salary and expenses while doing nothing for them except moaning at the EU. What a waste of money. He's a member of the elite himself. He was a commodity trader in the City of London.
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  2226. I'm sure you speak from vast experience.
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  2227. Not really because it was all interesting
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  2228. It's Keynesian economics.
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  2229. It's like ducks. They look like they are not doing much on the surface but are paddling hard underneath.
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  2230. Mark Heyne. Hands free peeing? Who holds it for you? Anyone using a bathroom should wash their hands. Even if they think their hands are clean they will be touching handles that other people have touched, and they may not have washed their hands.
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  2231. No Jesus. Can't say I've ever done that.
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  2232.  @Shane-Flanagan  Love isn't always logical. It's chemistry.
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  2233.  Paul Judkins  Divide and rule is their tactic.
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  2234. You only get one go to impress. It has to pack a real punch, be performed well with good vocals, and memorable presentation and some part of it must have a memorable strong melody, whatever other gimmicks surround it. This is too lightweight and does not pack enough of a punch. It's also not to modern European tastes.
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  2235. It's a false one.
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  2236.  @Space.Ghost.  Let's both go to sleep.
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  2237.  @ianexcalibur7096  I could come up with a lot more but there really isn't any point in wasting my time on you. Your mind is a sealed vacuum, and all you can do is resort to insults because you don't have any answers.
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  2238.  @ianexcalibur7096  I'll let you have the last word.
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  2239. +Brian Trend Nah1 Trump just tells his own version of simplistic bullshit but that's what a lot of people like to hear it seems. The likes of Trump have never helped the poorer people in society when it clashes with their own interests.
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  2240. In Chile Pinochet overthrew an elected government with the help of the USA. That's the difference. So much for supporting democracy.
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  2241. If they show a director I imagine they pick the best example of his films and here they picked "Rear Window" and Psycho".
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  2242.  @snuggles03  Unlike Hitler, Goebbels and Goering.
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  2243. +ladoga1506 Stalin wanted to wipe out all opposition and being paranoid he saw opposition everywhere. Lenin, before he died, criticised Stalin and so did Krushchev who " denounced Stalin for “despotism.” He accused Stalin of “repression and physical annihilation, not only against actual enemies, but also against individuals who had not committed any crimes against the party and the Soviet Government.” Khrushchev pointed out that in the late 1930s, 98 of the 139 members of the Communist Party’s Central Committee were arrested and shot. Furthermore, he said, more than half of the Seventeenth Party Congress was arrested on trumped-up charges of counterrevolutionary actions. - See more at: http://blog.oup.com/2012/02/khrushchev-denounces-stalin-speech-soviet-communists/#sthash.gsOJObHx.dpuf
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  2244. +ladoga1506 I agree Nazism is the worst ideology because it advocates genocide and practised genocide too. I don't think communist ideology was to blame for Stalin's murderous excesses. I think that was more down to Stalin's paranoid personality. Stalin ordered the elimination of "affluent" peasants, called Kulaks, as a class https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulak. He was also responsible for the death of many captured prisoners of war in WW2 including those Russian and other prisoners of war liberated from German prisoner of war camps. They either died on the marches back to Russia or in the gulags afterwards.
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  2245. +ladoga1506 Here is the history of dekulakization and Stalin's part in it.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulak As for the gulags, Solzhenitsyn has written extensively about those as well as prisoners who smuggled out information though they were writing later than WW2 . The families of those who never came back from the camps after WW2 are aware of the deaths and disappearances. Stalin and assumed that every Russian who was captured by the Germans was a traitor but it was not so. Russians soldiers generally hated the Germans for what they did in Russia and were treated very badly by the Germans when captured. They were lucky if they survived German camps and then they were killed by their own side (Stalin) after being "liberated"poor wretches.
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  2246. 'make them as high as you want!'. So you are content for our farming and manufacturing industries to die? We would also be paying tariffs on the imports from them and that will put our cost of living up or wholesalers may decide to go for cheaper goods from elsewhere and who knows what risks there might be in those as other countries don't have to adhere to such high food and safety standards. Do you think our government will be willing to pay for enough public servants to quality check the stuff coming in? The EU has already offered the deal and said they won't be changing it. Even Liam Fox, arch Brexiteer and Minister for trade, says we need a deal rather than a no deal Brexit. If Boris takes us out on a no deal it will be the biggest lesson on the consequences of arrogance and ignorance that we'll be taught but the price won't be paid by the wealthy like Boris and Rees Mogg. It will be paid by ordinary Britons.
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  2247. You could say he was the leading thinker and writer that influenced the leaders that followed. Without him there would have been no Russian revolution, no Trotsky or Lenin.
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  2248. I don't disagree with your Eric Moore, but I think the Greeks were a civilisation that influenced Western Europe most though, (democracy and certain aspects of philosophy and medicine). Their sculptures and architecture were influential beyond their time and influenced Western civilisation in the Renaissance and Victorian periods a lot. The Greeks influenced the Romans too and the Romans also influenced Western European civilisation a great deal, but the Greeks came first. Minoan ideas and civilisation didn't have as much effect on the development of ideas in Europe in later times, though they may have influenced the Greek civilisation. I'm not sure how much, so we may get some of their their ideas indirectly.
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  2249. Eric Moore. The Romans were brilliant at farming, architecture, engineering, sanitation, military tactics, strategy and conquest. Their strategy of "divide and conquer" was used very effectively, in particular by the British in creating their empire and even earlier in their conquest of Ireland (which was really a Norman conquest as the Norman kings were then ruling Britain) but the Greeks gave us (often via the Romans, admittedly) many of the ideas and ideals that still inspire us today. I wouldn't like to say which is the more important of the two . I was initially responding to the statement that the Romans were the first civilisation to influence Europe, but Herodotus Farmer has explained above why they said that and what they were trying to convey, and I understand their point.
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  2250. Roisin McGarvey. This is useful source for conversation. A serious learner might want to back it up with some textbook for Grammar etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gXToPIIarg
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  2251. The problem is that capitalism has problems and doesn't function well over time. It seems to lead to periodic crises but if war is the result of a breakdown of the system then there's no guarantee that people will move to a leftist solution that's democratic. What happens is often chaos, fear and awful stuff sometimes ending in a loss of democracy and divided populations turning on scapegoated groups in the most violent way. Therefore should people sit back and let it happen in the slight hope of something better or should they try to make a failing system work to prevent something worse, when it may be a futile task. I think we have to try and make things work in the first place to avoid the price paid by the victims of war and chaos.
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  2252. Marx spent his life on his intellectual work which many people still do today, only they get paid for it these days. His options for support were limited then particularly as his work was controversial but he was the first to pull so many different elements together in his analysis and many academics and others still find his analysis useful although his predictions about what would happen in the future were incorrect. He actually believed that revolution would first happen in "advanced" countries like Britain - not backward ones like Russia. He underestimated the resilience of the capitalist system particularly as it developed into a global system, which it was not then. Now if there's a crash it has worlwide effects but the welfare state supports systems to some extent in the West. Events have shown that people can't do without democracy to provide the best chance of getting a fair system but democratic societies can also no longer do well without some state welfare systems. "True market capitalism" as theorists have it, does not exist in reality. The nearest thing to it was the laissez faire economics of Victorian times but that created many "losers", and poverty from lack of security of employment. People were frequently thrown out of work in that system which ran from boom to slump quite often. These days many socialists would advocate Keynesian economics where the state may intervene to invest for growth at a time of slump. In a democracy the state is the representatives of us taxpayers protecting our interests, unless corporations have been able to "buy" politicians for their own exclusive interests which happens as we know..
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  2253. Victorian times were also close to the pure capitalism and there was massive poverty. I don't know much about America in the 1800s except that it was expanding at that time in terms of occupied land and its population was smaller than today so maybe there was more demand for workers which always increases wages. The acquisition of land would increase people's wealth though it would be at the expense of the native population (always someone losing eh!) . Capitalism goes through periodic crises where it throws people out of work and where there is no welfare state they just starve unless they can get charity. You'll probably never get pure capitalism or pure socialism for that matter but a combination of the two, modifies the excesses of capitalism so that societies are fairer.
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  2254. This isn't a history. It's a drama. It doesn't have to be totally historically accurate.
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  2255. People are now being heard and seen who were not heard and seen before. What sad things are being revealed. How heartless is ACA repeal and "Trumpcare" proposals. Makes me sad to see the problems some people cope with so courageously in the US and angry at uncaring politicians.
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  2256. I don't think that's true. Labour MPs would be pleased to be elected to government under any leader because then Labour can actually achieve things. If they couldn't get on with the leader while in government they could always give up their seats. This is a battle for the soul of the Labour party but also a desire for someone with the skills to lead them. It's difficult. I think Jeremy has the mandate to lead and to take the party to the left of the Blairites but also he needs the skills to lead otherwise he won't make an impact. He seems reluctant sometimes to go to the Midlands and North and connect with working class issues there. Even if he is sympathetic to their plight, I don't think they see that. They see him as part of the Southern metropolitan elite. Labour voters in the North and South seem to have different views also. Jeremy needs to be able to articulate a vision for Britain rather than seeming like a student sniping from the sidelines on the specific things he disapproves of. That's not what leadership is.
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  2257. No I'm not an idiot. Your opinion about the BBC is just your biased right wing opinion.  No more to be said.
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  2258. Self-serving twaddle. The fact is that you are more right wing than centre and you don't like it when the BBC is not as right as you.
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  2259. TheDogonebad  I've seen UKIP supporters interviewed on BBC TV, so your use of "always" is a bit strong, but if you believe the coverage is biased, the thing to do is to monitor it and literally count and record the numbers. Don't "cherry pick" just to prove your case. You'd need to monitor honestly. Then write to the BBC with your findings. However if the UKIP supporters in broadcasts are in proportion to UKIP's support in national voter surveys you would not have a case for bias I think. Personally I'd be scared if UKIP were in government in any numbers. I think they are basically more right wing than the Tories but with less competence (if that's possible). Farage's smiley face covers a multitude of deficiencies. Those poor and working class voters who support UKIP would find they have less power and rights if UKIP got into power because underneath the surface UKIP are pro the rich and anti-union, anti-European protection of workers rights. They appeal to nationalist sentiment but that won't put food on the table or prevent exploitation of the powerless. 
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  2260. Laxey Stu. Paxman wants to push him into one word answers that will make bad headlines for him if he falls into certain traps. I'm not saying that's Paxman's intention but that would be the result e.g. Headline: "Corbyn thinks his own manifesto is immoral"
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  2261. You seem well named.
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  2262. Br Ru. I was taking into accounts comments of people who had met him. He is a professor who teaches students. Just to balance the "creeped me out" opinion as that may be a judgement from just seeing him on camera.
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  2263. Kensington and Chelsea Borough has a Tory council. It does have a Labour MP but only since June 8th. Before that it had a Tory MP for many years.
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  2264. Well, according to Irish laws Ireland considers them to be Irish citizens. Just imagine what the Irish population could be if all its citizens returned. Don't have nightmares now.
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  2265. * their resignations *they're red Tories * their loss * his gain
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  2266. That's what all megalomaniacs say
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  2267. You're the illogical one. How can I be illogical about something I'm not doing ? That's like saying the wall you've not painted , you've painted the wrong colour.
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  2268. My point was to point out that the wording of your comment about my comment being illogical is illogical.
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  2269. If there's no equal pay issue for women that should be visible from any statistics on cases taken and won on equal pay by men compared to women. What are the relative numbers? If he's keen on "basic human nature" presumably he's o.k about homophobia which has existed for so long. If there's a female brain and a male brain as he says, what kind of brain does he have?
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  2270. Actually quite good so far. He's held down some fares and made others cheaper. He's raised the living wage rate and contributed £50m to housing the homeless. He's stopped that white elephant project "The Garden Bridge". He's consulting on how to lower air pollution.
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  2271. Gustav Adolph. This isn't necessarily politically motivated just because you say it is. I know tanned skin doesn't necessarily mean African ancestry. Don't you know what a metaphor is? Look it up.
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  2272. Gustav Adolph. Well it's clear in your mind. If people didn't like it they would not watch it but it drew a higher audience than the Alien Prequel and it was on BBC2. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/09/bbc-hollow-crown-war-of-the-roses-tom-sturridge-hugh-bonneville
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  2273. Rubbish. People in London work very hard.
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  2274. +Jordan H It won't matter if they were avoiding or evading tax in the first place but I doubt they'd all go. Anyway they didn't go when corporation and capital gains tax was at its original levels.
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  2275. +Jordan H P.S In fact it might bring house prices down if they go, making housing more affordable for the rest of us.
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  2276. I don't understand your comment. Firstly, without knowing me or explaining the relevance, you imply I have no sympathy for people who were the victims of particular crimes in a particular continent. Secondly you appear to criticise such sympathy as irrational morality. That's a bit of a heads you win, tails I lose, argument which is not really rational in itself.
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  2277. All religion is man made. Man needs it because man is weak and does not understand the world around him. He also needs it to control other men. It works to preserve elites.
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  2278. I think the prosecution of the bakers failed or was overturned on appeal.
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  2279. * EDL * sharia * religion
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  2280. Michael Dukes. No I never have. If I find someone attractive, it's the whole person, but I wouldn't be crass enough to comment about it on youtube or other social media.
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  2281. co-habiting not co-habitating!
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  2282.  @SchoolRumble4ever22  *breathe
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  2283. Mary Berry doesn't rhyme when said in an English accent but I'm guessing it does when said in an American accent.
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  2284. +Michael Bridge People under 16, or over 60, or unemployed or with certain chronic illnesses are entitled to free prescriptions. People between those ages who are working pay for prescriptions but the prescription fee is a lot less than the actual cost of the medicines. If you've got little out of the system, as you say, it would mean you've not been ill much. You are lucky if so, but as you need prescriptions to keep you alive I guess at some point you received something from the NHS in the way of diagnosis and care.
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  2285. How do they get sufficient vitamin D in the Winter?
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  2286. The main opposition party to the government (the Labour Party in this case) appoints Shadow Ministers who would occupy the Cabinet posts of government Ministers, should the Labour Party be elected in a future election. They are called the Shadow Cabinet because they shadow the government cabinet i.e they specialise in those areas of responsibility within the government cabinet and they seek to keep up with government policies in those areas, challenge those policies when appropriate, and develop policies in those areas for the Labour party.
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  2287. Dan N. Any more cliches you'd like to list?
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  2288. Yeah. I heard about that.
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  2289. +Scott Wolfe not fact. Where's the proof?
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  2290. KC Miles. It seems you long for an all white Britain or England. Change is a constant. Time can't be frozen to address the hang-ups you can't cope with. By the way did you know that George III's Queen, Charlotte, had some black ancestry and DNA tests have shown that Prince William and Prince Harry have an Indian woman as an ancestor? Britain perhaps wasn't quite as white as you thought.
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  2291. Not if it's like Sir Mick
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  2292. Induxvideos, I'm not sure how that's a reply to my comment but I wouldn't bank on Corbyn losing next time. May was popular before the election and the Tories have no one who can replace her. Also the Tory's result came after they threw everything at it including the majority of the press smearing and not accurately reporting Corbyn, and (according to the Panorama investigation) illegally employing call centre staff to target voters in key marginals.
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  2293. He's held down fares, which are some of the highest in Europe. He's raised the London living wage rate. He's contributed £50m to a project to house the homeless. He's stopped a wasteful white elephant project "The Garden Bridge". He's not automatically in favour of building more high rise empty office blocks just so foreign investors can make a profit from the increase in their value or launder criminal money. He prefers to build affordable housing for key workers and first time buyers. He's consulting on ways to lower air pollution. All good.
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  2294. Adrenaline Junkie. Bunkum. 60% of Londoners are not immigrants. Only 36.7% of the London population is foreign born.
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  2295.  @firsteerr  He can't push the government for anything. He's tried but they are not prepared to grant him any concessions that might help him because they don't want the Labour party to make any progress that might benefit them electorily. Chris Grayling openly admitted that he wasn't inclined to put failing London rail systems under TfL, to improve them as Khan suggested because he didn't want to 'hand them to Labour'. The Tories think if they punish Londoners enough for voting Labour, they will switch their vote to Tory. Khan has given extra money to the police budget and is raising the Mayor's 'precept' in the London council rates to give extra money to fund the police budgets so they can tackle crime better but he's limited in the amount he can raise and it pales in comparison with the vast amount the government has cut from police budgets since 2010. Since 2010 20,000 police officers jobs have been cut due to government budget cuts to police funding. Increasing the congestion charge to cut pollution is a good idea. It hadn't been raised for years, and there's enough good public transport in London to avoid driving in many cases. I don't drive and none of my family do. I have contracted adult onset asthma though, living near a busy road in London. There are other actions he is taking to cut pollution and I will watch with interest what the outcome of those will be. He's not a dictator so he can't tell councils what to do but he has consulted on affordable housing (end of 2017), issued supplementary planning guidance to encourage it, and secured funds for spending on it. His plan is a decade long plan and he's doing a number of things towards achieving this which you can google https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/news/london-mayor-raises-grant-rates-for-housing-associations-56827, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44139669. It takes time from planning, design and approval for homes to be built so give it a chance. Again he can't dictate to TfL but though some fares have risen, others have been capped and he has introduced 2 journeys for one price bus fares, that have benefited some of the poorest people in London, especially workers on low wages. This is more than Tory Boris Johnson achieved as Mayor as he did not have even the intention to try and improve things for ordinary Londoners but concentrated on vanity and useless projects like buying old water cannons for crowd control, which could not be used, highly expensive 'Boris buses' whose windows don't open, stifling people in Summer, and the unnecessary 'Garden Bridge' which thankfully Khan dropped before even more public money was wasted..
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  2296. The insulation was to make the building look prettier for the benefit of wealthier residents overlooking it. There was some document on the news site confirming this. Conservative councils don't seem to care about the kind of residents who don't vote for them and aren't wealthy. There was a video on youtube of a Barnet council meeting. Barnet was (probably still is) a Conservative council. An opposition councillor complained that only the rich could afford to buy in Barnet now and the Barnet council leader said that was exactly the type of people they wished to attract into the borough. Meanwhile more affordable/ social housing was being sold off.
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  2297. No one could be lighter than that airhead Trump.
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  2298. Should've gone to Specsavers.
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  2299. Another word for extremely pissed is "paralytic" or "palatic" as they say in Liverpool.
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  2300. Keep taking the pills Jared. Lol.
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  2301. Relevance?
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  2302. I don't think she is a Blairite.
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  2303. That's the last thing you'll be saying as we all die out.
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  2304.  @edwardcullen1739  What communist masters - like Boris you mean? They serve the Queen and have no masters other than the government of the day. I see the government now wants to use them as scapegoats. Well good luck because the civil servants are the ones who implement government policy, though they can't do the impossible. If the government attacks the civil service that will be like cutting their own legs off. I shall watch the results with amusement.
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  2305.  Anne*  No one can possibly lie more than Boris.He was sacked from various journalist jobs for being a liar and he continues to lie. In fact the reason he wants to privatise Channel 4 is because they called him 'a proven liar' and he can't have TV channels speaking the truth to the 'plebs' now can he?
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  2306.  @MrNed09  I don't think I'm easily brainwashed and I Iook at a variety of news sources. Sorry if you feel vulnerable to brainwashing. Boris is a snowflake if he can't take some questioning and challenge from the media.
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  2307. Exactly that I think but it is passing as the young generation generally just say 'I'm good' now.
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  2308.  @sharnachristina7504  I would never leave. I love the place of my birth and appreciate all it's given me and its lovely nature, kindness (for the most part), humour, intelligence (for the most part), scenery, culture(s) and yes, even the weather, since I don't like tropical or hot climates.
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  2309.  @johnwheeler4034  *they're
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  2310. Trump really knows how gullible his supporters are and is prepared to exploit them to the max.
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  2311. How do you prepare for self destruction?
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  2312. *effect
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  2313. Chromatic Beardiant. I don't use autocorrect because it can't cope with certain things, like proper names, names in other languages and English spelling and I think it also stops people from remembering themselves how to write grammatically.
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  2314.  @brwhizz3060  I don't think the Home Office deals with Covid. I did read that she had some poor devil working all night to do the impossible (basically to overturn a court decision) and then shouted at them at a meeting when she arrived in the morning at which point they were still working, after which they collapsed and had to be taken to hospital.
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  2315.  @borderlands10  A national health service, such as that in the UK, is not free except at the point of delivery. It's paid for from general taxation paid by people over their working lifetimes so the cost is spread out in an affordable way. Everyone puts into the taxation pot and when they are sick, they use the health service for free at that point. Why is the US spending so much more than other countries on healthcare? A good part of that spending is siphoned off in profits and a lot also goes in administration because it's not the most efficient system. If you eliminate that, there's more public money to spend on healthcare and to cover the whole population. All the countries in Europe do it without going bankrupt. The systems may be slightly different from each other. For instance Germany has an insurance based system but everyone is covered and the system is regulated so that it isn't exploitative. Look how well Germany has done on dealing with the Coronavirus also.
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  2316.  @hannahbanana7766  I inserted a comment explaining that, and how America spends far more on healthcare as a proportion of GDP than the rest of the world but does not get best value as there are so many people not covered and money is siphoned out of the system by way of profits. I explained about paying via taxation or state regulated insurance (such as Germany does) and how no country doing this has gone bankrupt. However my comment seems to have disappeared as if it's been removed. Most odd.
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  2317.  @SilverSurferr320  Taxpayers i.e all of us in work, but if we lose a job we still get healthcare.
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  2318. They've backed themselves into a corner through long term mismanagement of the economy. Cutting taxes will also kill people through cutting public services and even taking a paycut would only be a spit in a bucket. Pay has to be enough to attract people with brains and expertise who are prepared to do their best and take the knocks of politics. Sadly expertise seems to be lacking in many cases.
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  2319. Only responding to the touchy little con artists
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  2320.  @owenorders5202  Well there's also 'long Covid' to consider which younger people can suffer from, which can be anything from long term or permanent damage to months of recuperation. It's not good. Apparently over 1 million people in the UK have it now and it's more unpredictable who will get it than predicting who is more at risk of dying.
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  2321.  @0808-w9q  I did receive a proper education. It didn't stop me from 'making money' as you put it, but It also gave me some perspective on that and it taught me to understand the value and importance of science and the scientific methodology. We are already vaccinated.
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  2322.  @0808-w9q  Run out of arguments so attacking the messenger now? I've had my vaccine as you'd know if you read the comments and I have worked all my life and am happy.
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  2323. It's just Coronavirus deaths.
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  2324. @Russian Troll so Im toldThat was the Labour party, post war, not the Tories. Now we have the Tories in power, the EU protects workers rights more than the Tories do.
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  2325. There's no character called 'Peaky'.
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  2326. The problem is that councils haven't been told the case figures collected by the Private Sector, only those collected by hospitals so they don't have the true data. I think the full figures may recently have been released.
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  2327. @Joe Bloggs. It's called a deal but it's really a withdrawal agreement. The trade deals will need to be negotiated after we leave because we won't have any, and they'll take years to negotiate though the time may be shortened if the the UK government is just going to capitulate to foreign governments on everything they ask for. Anyway Boris pulled his 'deal' when it was going through Parliament so it's not clear that he will pursue it after an election, when what he and his wealthy cronies really want is a 'no deal' exit. His 'deal' was considered just to be a ploy to avoid having to comply with the Benn Act so that he could avoid asking for an extension, though he failed in that because Parliament stopped him and he had to ask for an extension anyway. It still doesn't guarantee that we won't leave on a no deal exit at the end of January. Keep up Joe.
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  2328. He's honest. Most guys would try to hide sides of them that they thought people would not approve of e.g Trump and his women.
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  2329. How is it fake and who would it benefit?
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  2330.  @Kaine1111  Who is 'they' who want to destroy the world they live in? Also I don't think microchips were envisaged in the bible. Every time there's a difficult world problem there seem to be people who believe in some conspiracy. It's like they've not moved beyond a medieval mindset, and look for simple answers however bizarre.
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  2331. Try signing up with a milkman delivery service. We get our milk as often as we want.
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  2332.  @nickrael5693  Sometimes they are right to do so. If this guy can't see the bias in those articles, he's blind.
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  2333. This is what Blood.co.uk says: 'Does NHS Blood and Transplant sell plasma for profit? No, NHS Blood and Transplant does not sell plasma for profit. NHS organisations charge each other for the cost of services, on a cost recovery basis. For example, an NHS commissioning group might give an NHS hospital a fixed sum of money for a hip operation. In the same way, NHS Blood and Transplant receives money for each unit of red cells, platelets and plasma that it supplies to hospitals. This money covers NHS Blood and Transplant’s costs.'
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  2334. Zenoist2. Do you have evidence for that? I've never seen a breakdown of the votes by ethnic background. The ballot is a secret one. The problem was in Barnet, a largely white borough anyway. Barnet council would hardly do anything to deliberately assist Khan's chances as they are a Tory council and Khan won by a much bigger margin than any affected votes in Barnet. The problem arose because the council had outsourced to private companies everything they could, including management of the election. The company in charge used an outdated voting register. The council blamed the company and the company blamed the council. It was discovered because voters on the new register, but not the old, were not listed and were turned away from the voting station. It affected a few thousand people. However once the problem was realised, the new register was sent for and the voters were informed they should come back and vote later as the polling stations stay open until 10 p.m.
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  2335. The problem is the army is meant to operate in a democracy. Perhaps they'd be happier under a dictatorship.
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  2336.  @gopher1471  The sheep are the ones that follow the Tories when the Tories don't have their interests at heart but only the interests of the rich.
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  2337.  @edwardstarling1835  Was yours a Covid hospital? Some hospitals separated Covid from non Covid patients by sending all the Covid ones to a specific local hospital.
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  2338. Lol.
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  2339. It's the Tories that were keen on having Mayors and pushing local areas to vote to have them. Mayors can represent and can stick up for their areas but I think the Tories just thought dealing with one person per area, it would be easier to buy them off or ignore them.
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  2340.  @gordonmcdonald1064  Not at all. The government has a raft of nasty measures now it want to impose on London and the Mayor is resisting.
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  2341.  @richardfox6595  That constipated lump is called 'Brexit'.
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  2342.  KEKKER TM  It's true that estate agents want to maximise their commission and they can do that more when there's a shortage of housing supply because there's more demand. There are stories of hundreds of people viewing flats or houses in one week-end in London. Then they bid against each other to see who will succeed in getting the property. Estate agents do now have competition from cheaper online agents and also agents who work on a different basis (such as 'Purple Bricks'). That brings down sale and buying costs for sellers and buyers but it doesn't bring down basic property prices.
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  2343.  @briansykes2806  I'm a city person. I can't live in the countryside. I don't drive, never have and neither do any of my family. Bus and rail services in rural areas are patchy to non existent and jobs are often thin on the ground. I can't stand the heat. I don't have skin for the sun. I've 3 sisters all of whom have had skin cancer, so I couldn't live in Spain. In any case people in the countryside don't seem to want a lot of housing development in their areas spoiling their environment.
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  2344.  charlie cheeseface  I'm not sure what you are referring to in terms of 'an option' but I like Europe, its history. culture, civilisation, languages, football, exploring the countries within it, and France is our nearest neighbour. We have friends there and Europe is also our nearest trading block. We learned French at school and my husband has a degree in French and spent a year living there. If you are talking about places to live, I wouldn't want to live in the USA, too big and scary with too many guns. Australia Mostly desert and too hot with the most dangerous animals in the world, and the furthest place away from Britain. Canada? Too large and too cold. New Zealand. O.K but too far away.
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  2345.  charlie cheeseface  I'll certainly be happier to talk to someone who is not stupid.
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  2346.  charlie cheeseface  I thought you Brexiteers don't believe in 'experts'.
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  2347.  @antman5474  You're welcome
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  2348. You could see he didn't know how to respond to this clear evidence of his intentions. In the end he opted to deny everything in spite of the evidence. Unbelievable in every sense.
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  2349. Are MPs suffering a pay cut 'in these inflationary times'? Why are they planning to lift the cap on bankers bonuses? Is belt tightening only for the plebs?
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  2350.  @ahitch3681  Still a bargain when you think there's no worry about big health bills if ever you get ill or need medical treatment.
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  2351. He was lucky that the plane crew were able to land and get him to a hospital quickly. I believe there was also a medic on the plane. Putin doesn't necessarily have to have people killed if he does enough to scare them off and keep them in exile. Navalny has said he will go back to Russia, but that is a hugely risky thing for him to to. He can have no protection there.
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  2352.  @endtimesanalysis1249  The level of hypocrisy is nowhere near that of the Tories though, and soon everyone will be driving electric vehicles anyway.
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  2353.  @NLS_7  You and me both (about the never driving thing anyway). What you can stick in your hole is no-one's business, only your own (pun intended).
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  2354.  @dominico3468  Did Dominic Cummings hypocrisy of one Covid law for him and another for everyone else, also turn your stomach? Did Boris's £37bn giveaway to friends and supporters turn your stomach? I would guess Khan needs a bullet proof car big enough to contain a body guard given the vitriol spewed at him in social media pages. Do you imagine the the P.M's car is not bullet proof. Anyway, anyone can drive a car in London provided they pay the charges. So it's not hypocrisy if he's paying the taxes. I expect some Tory supporting media outlets went big on the story though just to get people riled.
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  2355. Seniors can get confused.
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  2356.  @seyley2901  In the UK Kemi Badenoch was a rising star in the Conservative Party and government. She was the Secretary Estate for Business and Trade. President of the Board of Trade. She was also Minister for Women and Equalities and Secretary of State for International Trade. She's now the Shadow Secretary for Housing, Communities and Local Goverment. She is highly ambitious and a current contender for leadership of the Conservative Pary but she is also highly controversial and divisive, liked and disliked by voters and the party.
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  2357. I doubt it. These were the ones working with British forces.
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  2358.  @Rapanior  True but unfortunately a lot of people (including a large portion of the working class) have been persuaded by many years of pro Tory media to move towards more rightist parties and Labour, in order to get elected, has a lot of work to do to persuade numbers of them to vote Labour. (The government ineptitude and chaos is now helping to shift mindsets). Voters are not going to move from the right to sharp left en masse. A lot of people will vote Labour when under stress. As soon as Labour improves life for them, they seem to fall for the siren call of the Tories again and their 'aspirational' messages.
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  2359.  @billisaac326  The views of racists like you don't count because you can't see beyond race. Khan has done quite a few good things for London. Bailey is just a Tory mouthpiece with no brains or thoughts of his own.
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  2360.  @unionjackjackson4352  P.S. 7,000 of the houses started in one year, before Covid lockdowns, will be for social rent and that is more than all the social housing produced in the whole of Boris's term as mayor. The rest of the houses are at 'affordable' levels which is a term coined by the Tory government with the precise meaning of 80% of market value.
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  2361.  @pauld5723  Shaun Bailey has changed his tune on stop and search for election purposes. I've seen a video of him in a GLA meeting where Khan is talking about increasing stop and search and Bailey is shouting at him that it's racist. Increased spending well controlled and used is not wasteful but Khan is limited in what he can spend because the government cut central funding to local authorities by 80% since 2010 and he's limited in what he's allowed to raise from local taxes too. The Tory government since 2010 has centralised a lot of power and control, taking much away from local government. Boris Johnson was the wasteful one with the money he's wasted on vanity projects when he was Mayor: £53m on the failed Garden Bridge project, a new fleet of buses at over £1m per bus, and buying second hand German water tanks that turned out to be illegal to use in the UK. As P.M he's really upped the ante. He spent £37bn on contracts to friends and supporters that he's not published, as legally required, and he's set aside £100bn for bi-weekly Covid testing with a test that's only 50% accurate and which experts say is highly unlikely to meet his objectives. As for bus fares, I've lived in London over 30 years and it's a long time now since fares were 80p. They do go up with inflation but having 2 journeys for the price of one cuts down travel costs and makes a significant difference to the lowest paid (minimum wage) workers .
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  2362.  @pauld5723  I don't think the police are demoralised. Where do you get that idea from? Police are only demoralised when they are constantly criticised by the communities they police, not when occasional mistakes are made but in an ongoing way. Good training ensures they can take the appropriate action to fit circumstances, work with and for communities and not against them, and have confidence in what they do. The police in the UK are better trained and trained for longer, than those in the USA.
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  2363. He was obviously in the wrong party.
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  2364. Rob Val. It's possible because Corbyn/Labour want to stay in a customs union with the EU, but the Tories don't. Staying in a customs union is much easier for the EU to accept. Turkey is not in the EU but it is in a customs union with it. Staying in a customs union would mean no tariffs on trade, smoother trade, no NI border problems.
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  2365.  @rob5944  No, apparently not. Here is an explanation of the difference between being in a customs union with the EU and being in the single market which is something different and has wider responsibilities. A customs union just affects trade and is an agreement not to have tariffs on trade. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/customs-union-what-is-eu-brexit-single-market-alternatives-labour-corbyn-speech-a8557046.html And here is a useful page from the institute for government https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/options-uk-trading-relationship-eu There are already a number of countries in a customs union with the EU. Turkey is one.
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  2366. Their pay has devalued by 25% since the Tories came to power but rents and rates and the cost of living is going up and has been going up for some time. They spent years qualifying at their own expense. Who would do that unless they expect a payback in the form of higher pay? They have life and death responsibilities and put their own lives at risk during the Covid pandemic. Yes everyone needs a cost of living pay rise. The minimum wage is at least scheduled to go up by over 9%. The nurses have not been offered anything near that percentage. The Tory government loves it when workers attack each other rather than them. They are also fighting for the NHS against a government that is allowing it to collapse.
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  2367. The world is very connected now through air travel. Once it got outside China to countries where people travel from, or tourists go to, it was bound to spread worldwide.
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  2368. Problem with Farage is that he says what's wrong with everything but never puts forth solutions. Occasionally when he has been pushed into saying what he'd do, he's for extreme options like privatising the NHS or turning it into an insurance based system.
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  2369. Go and volunteer in care homes and hospitals if you think it's fake news.
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  2370. Speak for yourself.
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  2371. John of Gaunt was dying anyway.
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  2372. Putin would like liberalism to be obsolete. He wishes. Russia never had a proper democracy anyway. A democracy is not a system where you kill or imprison the opposition.
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  2373. He has someone to make his tea for him. He's only pretending to know how to make a cup of tea. He's no technology buff either. He can't say gigabit correctly.
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  2374. Barbara Walters looks nice without any obvious plastic surgery it seems. Proper dignity.
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  2375. Truth will out if Piers will let people speak.
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  2376. If they get all the hostages back would these protesters care about what Netanyahu is doing in Gaza and the West Bank?
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  2377. That's because you don't think much at all, I suspect.
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  2378. They have to do what the government of the day requires them to, though they should not be asked to do anything illegal. They are not obliged to do illegal things though certain Tory Ministers did a lot of bullying to try to get them to do such things.
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  2379. Can you write that grammatically?
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  2380. That headline is Orwellian.
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  2381. You might have taken the same drugs if you'd had half the career he has had and why is he a liar? The Leave Campaign, in the run up to the Referendum were campaigning to leave with a deal so you can't say people then were voting to leave without a deal.
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  2382.  @progressivelife841  Why? Do they magically change properties outside of hospital?
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  2383. He could just be a deranged individual.
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  2384. He didn't defend the attack on Israel. He condemned it but he started talking about the historical context for this and the equivalence between the lives of Palestinian and Israeli children and she didn't like that and tried to silence him.
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  2385. If you like fake or low quality or dangerous goods and scams.
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  2386. A most inventive criminal.
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  2387. Having the same 'viral load' does not necessarily mean getting as sick as the unvaccinated. If it protects people from getting as sick or dying, it's worthwhile. I don't like this sort of reporting because they give some information without explaining the implications for people.
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  2388. He seems psychotic.
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  2389.  @nicholas_x7732  Is anyone around Trump denying that it happened? Is Giuliani denying it? It was said it was raised by Trump and discussed as an option. Others tried to dissuade him so it can't at this stage be called 'an intention'.
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  2390. Maybe Biden was aware of the potential threat and ahead of the game here. 'As of Aug. 8, the first day of the U.S. Senate’s August break, Biden has successfully appointed 75 judges to the three main tiers of the federal judicial system: the district courts, appeals courts and U.S. Supreme Court. That’s far more than the number appointed by Donald Trump (51) and Barack Obama (42) at the same stage in their presidencies, and slightly more than the number appointed by several other recent presidents – including George W. Bush (72), Bill Clinton (74) and Ronald Reagan (72) – by this point in their tenures. Among all presidents going back to Dwight D. Eisenhower, only Kennedy had appointed more federal judges than Biden at the same stage of his tenure. Kennedy had appointed 102 judges by then, far outpacing the total of every other modern president in the same amount of time.'
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  2391. You can search for cases by London Boroughs, but they never break down the figures to smaller areas it seems.
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  2392. Trump is always the hero in his own fantasy.
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  2393.  @Horizon301.  Well that's the whole debate isn't it? Personally I don't find such humour funny but I can understand she didn't mean any harm to anyone in real life. At the same time I can understand that real harm might occur because it can plant an idea in someone's mind, so if you thought about it, you wouldn't want to risk that. Comedians often say things off the top of their heads without thinking too much of the consequences. There's a lot of this sort of humour now. It seems popular and the BBC encouraged it by calling their show 'Heresy' and saying the idea was to push the boundaries of comedy but where do you draw the line? On reflection she admits it wasn't good to have said it.
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  2394. Reform? The Railways are the way they are now because of Tory 'reforms', namely privatisation which didn't work in Covid lockdowns so the government had to take over the railways again and pay rail companies a flat fee for running them. As a consequence those companies don't have the financial flexibility to negotiate properly with Unions. The government does, but won't do it because it want's to destroy the unions so it can enforce cuts on the railways. The strike suits the Tory agenda.
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  2395. It's to do with population size and resources but it's not all about being at the top of the table. It's also about enjoying the performances.
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  2396.  Harry Harry  So who is it they are fighting and killing in Afghanistan? Other muslims. I'm sure they don't like his Western haircut.
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  2397. Yes, Jenrick and Tugendhat are up for the leadership but Jenrick is no better than he should be (awful man) and Tugendhat is seen as not right wing enough. James Cleverly might win if he stands.
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  2398. They could just wall him up somewhere in there.
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  2399. * a woman (singular) (women is plural). It's not to do with morals. It's to do with science and beliefs.
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  2400. I have 4 half siblings. All had red hair. One of them (my half brother) had 4 children all with red hair. The other 3 half siblings (half sisters, two of which were twins) had no red haired children but had red chaired grandchildren (one each). The hair of 2 of my brother's children, both boys, turned darker as they reached their 30s. I was born with reddish hair but it turned dark around the time I reached my teens. Why does hair colour change like that? The family is of Irish ethnicity on both sides. My brother's wife has dark hair. My mother had dark hair. All 3 of my half sisters developed skin cancer but not to a deadly extent. We all have the same pale freckled skin but I'm not very tolerant of hot weather and have stayed out of the sun more than they. My half brother was also not a sun bather.
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  2401. * to portray (verb), not portrait (noun meaning picture)
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  2402. That was someone different. He may have taken over but I think Lord Buckethead had to change the name anyway for legal reasons. Can't remember why though.
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  2403. Yes, What we want is politicians who are asleep on the job. I think we've got quite a few of them now.
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  2404. Because it won't ask questions?
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  2405. A teacher witness said he used the gun to force entry but that all his killing after entry was with a knife.
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  2406. To push them further into debt and bankruptcy or having to cut more social services? The government has cut the central grant to local councils by up to 80% since 2010. They are hugely underfunded. More financial penalties won't fix things unless everyone is willing to pay a lot more council tax to compensate..
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  2407.  @billlarner7977  Couldn't be more clueless than Boris.
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  2408. Farage has no ideas and no policies other than Brexit. That's why the Iraq war was a disaster. The west went in with the idea of defeating and ousting Saddam Hussein but had given no thought to what should happen next. They didn't have a plan. May doesn't have a plan and neither does Farage.
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  2409. UKIP can't even lead or run their own party effectively. Even Nigel Farage says he wouldn't want to be part of it now.
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  2410. Anyone who says 'all the sudden' is just getting the expression 'all of a sudden' wrong.
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  2411. A millionaire's socialism? Don't make me laugh. You don't know the meaning of the word.
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  2412. Racism and sexism in one? No I doubt that was his reason, or not his primary one. I think he wanted to strike a blow for independence from the British Empire, I guess. Before 1963 Nigeria was part of the British Empire so technically she was his overlord before 1963.
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  2413.  @olawcristophersoun1373  Same thing in law.
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  2414.  @olawcristophersoun1373  If a signed agreement is broken by one side without the consent of another there are often consequences (The consequences are usually written in the Agreement).
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  2415.  @olawcristophersoun1373  O.K but my point about consequences is still valid.
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  2416.  @olawcristophersoun1373  If countries behave like criminals they will be pariahs in the world and our credit rating will go down the swanee. All those billions we've borrowed at cheap rates won't be at cheap rates any longer and some time or other there will be a reckoning and for Tories, the reckoning always involves shafting working people, and now it also seems to involve sinking the economy, which also amounts to shafting working people so never think there are no consequences. 'Send not to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee'
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  2417.  @olawcristophersoun1373  True, but we are not acting in ours. Name any benefits of Brexit. Even businesses and a cross party group of MPs think the trade deals are no good and want businesses to be involved in the negotiations. Cummings said that Boris only has 2 objectives 1) to be free to decide what he wants on the daily basis and 2) to have a story he can sell to the public. He doesn't really care about anything else. After all he was the one who said 'f*ck business' during the leave campaign. He reminds me of Trump who said he likes chaos because he always profited from chaos.
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  2418. Putin doesn't seem like someone who can back down. It's scary.
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  2419. I used to use Google Chrome until my PC started to slow down drastically. I got so fed up I uninstalled Google Chrome and my PC's performance went back to normal.
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  2420. Vaccines aren't ready. They've not gone through all the tests yet and those tests have been paused after someone got ill.
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  2421.  @peterwoodhead2569  If he's importing Italian goods he's not selling from Italy it would seem - probably from the UK.
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  2422. Davazno1 Yeah but these days people play around with Shakespeare plays, as these are dramas with wider relevance in the stories. For instance there has been an all female Hamlet and an all black Roman play (I think it was Julius Caesar). There has been a version of Macbeth set in a Nazi type regime. It's all fluid. People shouldn't get their knickers in a twist about it. Shylock is not always played by a Jewish person is he or Romans by Italians? If you don't like it don't watch it, but I watched this one and thought it was really good. Margaret was distrusted as a "foreigner" because she was French. Not quite the same I know, but you can see it as a metaphor for the "difference" people reacted to.
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  2423. davazno1. No. I think you are making that up but there has been an all black Hamlet http://blacktheatrelive.co.uk/tours/hamlet. If you don't like things, don't watch them but allow people freedom and don't spoil the enjoyment of others. The world is big enough to hold many things.
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  2424. davazno1. No problem, but I think you'd enjoy it if you watched it. It's one that makes the meaning of Shakespeare's words clearer than many other versions. The acting's good and there's lots of exciting action, particularly in part II (my favourite part) but you really need to watch it all to follow the plot.
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  2425. Northern Ireland can vote to rejoin the restof Ireland any time they want to. That's provided for in The Good Friday Agreement.
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  2426.  @alex-sv8ru  That's the trouble. No one cares about that sort of divide in the modern age except for NI.
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  2427. Here's a song for Boris Johnson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxd23UVID7k
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  2428. The BBC uses proper journalists who check their facts. They don't indulge in fake news like Fox news for instance.
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  2429.  @Cetoute32818  That is very altruistic of you but sad for your loved ones who would want you to live.
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  2430. The quality of the service goes down, the less money they have.
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  2431. Sunak wasn't elected by anyone except Tory Party members. Hardly a representative section of the electorate or one with any judgement. They also elected Liz Truss.
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  2432. If you saw the whole interview, what JRM said was just 'windbaggery'. He's good at that and diverting the conversation from the issue at hand because he came up with no justification for not levying a windfall tax on energy companies when even the CEs of those companies are embarrassed by their sudden wealth, calling their own companies, 'cash making machines' as Neil pointed out. France was also a country that levied a windfall tax and held their energy price rises to 4% only.
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  2433. Gove was the only one in the Tory government who planned or actioned any policies that were helpful to ordinary people. He also was one of the few with brains and judgement and he saw that Johnson was unfit to be PM a long time ago.
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  2434. Trump's been mental for years but it doesn't seem to matter to his supporters. They don't discuss issues any more because Trumpism is just a personality cult.
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  2435. They were never real.
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  2436. He knows he's with David Attenborough.
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  2437. It will require strong governments to ensure productivity gains are shared in society, but that will require people to vote for politicians who believe in that. Meanwhile the wealthy will try to use AI to stop that from happening.
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  2438. A good thing to remember when talking to, and about ,others on youtube, is nihil nisi bonum.
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  2439. What use is Nigel Farage except for talking a lot and getting us into this Brexit mess?
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  2440. A liar calling another liar, a liar. Hmm! Who to believe?
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  2441. Henry VIII Royal serial killer.
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  2442.  @TrumpWon45-47  Abuse reveals poverty of argument.
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  2443.  Simon Tide  I'm only defending her on the point made by Bob Smith - nothing else.
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  2444.  @roywatson8133  * wait until they're all in then etc (learn English)
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  2445. I think it was only a theory for a long time. It's very recent that it's been realised that the AIs way of working, as currently developed, will lead to it outsmarting us. That's because they have tried various methods of creating AI with varying degrees of success, but more recently struck upon the one that works best, and is so much better than the rest.
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  2446. I guess the management has a private sector mindset i.e. cover up rather than address issues. My brother died at the QE hospital in 2018 and my sister in 2022. I've no evidence that there was any maladministration but my brother had an immune system transfer and yet was not isolated during this vulnerable time. I don't know why. He did share with someone else who had the same procedure. They both got infections when their immune systems were not functioning. My brother died. The other guy recovered from the infection. When I visited my sister and asked the nurse a simple question she appeared to react fearfully before answering me. The management should listen to the medical experts who have the welfare of patients at heart.
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  2447.  @davidg9057  They knew the car was implicated in a crime. They did not know the name of the person driving. If you say they did then the defence lied to the judge.
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  2448. Who gets advance warning of the date of their arrest? Is he being allowed to flee the country?
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  2449. Survival, staying on top?
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  2450. We shouldn't object when we had all those years when Hollywood movies set in the Middle East or Egypt or about Native Americans were full of white western actors playing non white parts. Alec Guinness as Prince Faisal, Lawrence Olivier and Orson Wells as Othello, Yul Brynner as King of Siam, and Taras Bulba, and Chief Black Eagle etc etc. They were good in those parts and Sophie Okonedo is good in this.
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  2451. Starmer does. You and Boris don't
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  2452. 'Have you voted Labour before?' (All Sun readers) 'Never'. No former Labour voters until 2.27. Next one is a Corbyn supporter and the one after that. 3.40 a former Labour voter. Gosh they've struggled to find 2 people that match their title.
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  2453.  @sentinal2343  Given up now?
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  2454.  Leroy Jenkins  Well crashing out with no deal will make the situation worse not better.
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  2455.  @havebadday7850  Boris tells many more lies than Blair, more frequently, and is a much more blatant briber. He knows no limits and respects no laws if they get in his way and in the end Boris is working for Boris. Just before he joined the leave camp he wrote an article about why the UK should stay in the EU, but I'm sure he thought his chances of becoming P.M. were higher if he joined the leave campaign. Even yesterday when confronted by a woman in Doncaster, he told her that he was giving lots of money to various towns and that Doncaster was on the list. The list has been published today. Doncaster's not on it.
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  2456. Yes. Only a few weeks ago he was boasting of still shaking hands with everyone. He's a man after Trump's heart.
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  2457.  @lordalfredgreat  He's not a communist you ignoramus. He's no more communist than the Labour government of 1945 which created the NHS, nationalised lots of industries and built lots of houses to rebuild Britain after WW2.
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  2458. Statutory Instruments are not debated in Parliament.
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  2459. In relation to aspiration, what is the likelihood of hitting a vein in the arm muscle where vaccinations are normally given? I've had injections there all my life and never had any problem. I've never heard of anyone who had a problem. Where does this concern stem from? Does aspiration hurt more than non aspiration? The mistaken idea of 'putting air in' may be the confusion with the other (non-medical) meaning of aspiration which is 'to draw breath'.
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  2460. Because Covid will be a factor in their death.
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  2461.  @holyKoreanJesus  *affected.
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  2462.  Infinity Stones  Abuse is no argument.
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  2463.  Infinity Stones  Triggered or what?
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  2464.  Infinity Stones  Your comments are banale and the result of impoverished thinking. You're not worth discussing anything with. It's a waste of time.
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  2465.  Paul Muggins  What are you talking about?
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  2466. @Crying Shame Don't be silly. It was the Bellingcat website that investigated and discovered the identities of the Salisbury suspects. The forensics were done at Porton Down I believe, and the police also investigated the crime scene.
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  2467. By reducing the means by which it gets revenue to fund its war in Ukraine?
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  2468. The Tories would have been better off U turning on many of their policies.
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  2469.  @kevinb9830  Large queues at Dover, caused by Brexit, queues for British travellers, caused by Brexit, political problems in Northern Ireland, Brexit complicated that. Potential break up of the UK, exacerbated by Brexit, unfavourable economic growth and trade projections in comparison to Europe and the rest of the world - the only difference in the UK is Brexit. The intended dismantling of worker protections, facilitated by Brexit, financial corruption, facilitated by Brexit and this is just the beginning, judging by government intentions for the future.
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  2470. I'm sure people who make these sort of comments don't live in London.
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  2471.  @dwaynefoley1020  Actually we have better weather than most of the rest of the UK and there is always lots to see and do and lots of green spaces to enjoy. Life is never boring. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
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  2472. The interviewer missed the point that before Brexit, illegal immigrants arriving from France could be returned there. After Brexit that option was no longer available. Farage was let off the hook over Brexit.
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  2473.  @johnfarmer3506  The Pfizer booster was the one that affected me most and that I talked about in my first comment. Before that I'd had 2 Astra Zeneca doses that affected me a bit but not much. I was back to normal after a week with those and the worst AZ effects lasted about 3 days and weren't that bad (mostly tiredness, sore arm, and woozy type headaches - not painful ones). My 2 neighbours also had Astra Zeneca doses originally. The male was in bed for a few days afterwards the female experienced no significant effects at all.
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  2474.  @barryfleming8488  I don't take doctors' advice uncritically. I try to find out as much as I can myself before deciding and question doctors. For instance, twice when I had cancer the GP didn't think it was cancer and the second time I had to push them to refer me for a diagnostic test. I know they can make mistakes and not know everything which is why there needs to be an engagement between patients and doctors based on mutual respect. I do think my local doctors do have their patients' interests at heart though. At least the NHS is not so much subject to corporate financial pressures as private medicine. Over the years I've been well treated and survived potentially fatal illnesses because of the NHS. I'm eternally grateful to them.
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  2475.  @chandrasharma1727  It was not the second dose of the vaccine I avoided, but a second booster dose (which would have been my 4th vaccination). Only those with severely weakened immune systems are offered a second booster dose and it turned out that I didn't fall into that category, though the vaccine people thought I did initially (based on their checklist), but I checked with my GP and I don't have a severely weakened immune system.
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  2476.  @zpvnrt  Yes it's sad your request resulted in her ignoring it and giving you grief at the same time. My experience was this: I asked the male nurse if he could aspirate for me and he was willing to but he said they didn't normally do that. I asked him if anyone else had made a similar request and he said no. I was surprised to find not more people being aware and asking for this. In spite of your experience, the more people ask for it, the more nurses like yours will have to start doing it.
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  2477.  @stephenhunter70  Possibly. I'm sure the scientists who developed the vaccines would have known what they were doing and the risks and limitations of that, and should have explained it to the leadership. In the UK, the Astra Zeneca vaccine was developed with government funding. There certainly must have been some unknowns though, as it was unknown territory to some extent. I understand the scientists did make use of what had been learned from previous vaccine development, as far as possible.
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  2478. According to Private Eye magazine, it's not true that Andrew wanted to wear an Admiral's suit, and it's not true that uniforms were banned by the Queen because otherwise Harry would be the only one not wearing one and because of Andrew's demand. Harry's cousin Peter Phillips and some other attendees would not have been wearing one and in any case Harry was entitled to wear the uniform of the Blues and Royals whom he served with, if he wished. It's a story made up by the newspapers.
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  2479.  @seanp1317  It's a mix of views. That's democracy. Just like the Tories are a mix, though they have gone more right in recent years. The important thing is what they commit to do in their manifesto. You don't have to agree with people all the time to know that what they plan to do may be more helpful for you than what others plan to do.
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  2480.  @frankieseward8667  Force never solves problems in the long term. Joint agreements are much better and more lasting.
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  2481.  Patrick Bateman  True. 'The United States has threatened to stop financial aid to other countries if they trade non-food items with Cuba. However, because the embargo is not popularly supported internationally and other countries are not under the jurisdiction of U.S. law, U.S. attempts to discourage its allies from trading with Cuba have not been successful. The US's attempts to do so have been vocally condemned by the United Nations General Assembly as an extraterritorial measure that contravenes "the sovereign equality of States, non-intervention in their internal affairs and freedom of trade and navigation as paramount to the conduct of international affairs".[5]' (Wikipedia)
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  2482. She has said the OBR weren't told about all of it? I presume the OBR would contradict her if that were not true.
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  2483.  @chewieqtpie  Sorry I wasn't referring to the vaccine. I meant I know people who have had Covid 19. It gave my brother in law a stroke and now he can't walk, can't make himself understood and can't feed himself. I've had the vaccine (first dose). It's been fine. I was tired for a couple of days that's all.
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  2484.  @Haveagreatday915  In terms of Covid19: It gave my brother in law a stroke and now he can't walk, can't make himself understood and can't feed himself. My sister was in bed feeling like death for a week with Covid. My next door neighbours had it, one was bad with it, one not so bad. A friend caught it and was in hospital with it. He lost a lot of weight but survived. He was in his 50s. In terms of the vaccine: My husband and I have had the vaccine (first dose - Astra Zeneca). It's been fine. I was tired for a couple of days that's all. I've 3 older sisters who have had the vaccine (2 Astra Zeneca, 1 Pfizer) all said they had no symptoms. The neighbours who had Covid 19 later had vaccinations (Astra Zeneca). The one who had Covid the worst, was tired and in bed for 3 days after the vaccine. The one who didn't have Covid so badly didn't suffer side effects from the Vaccine. 4 other friends have had the vaccine without suffering any bad side effects. These comments all apply to the first dose. I don't know anyone yet who has had the second dose.
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  2485. There are plenty of Indians who fought for Britain in WW2. It's not the problem that he's Indian but that he doesn't connect. Starmer is not Marxist. Who is in 2nd place? Lib Dems or Reform?
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  2486.  @GravityBoy72  They are doing a good job of making Putin look bad. Lol. Galina Starovoitova, opposition Duma Deputy killed Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia political party, shot and killed Mikhail Trepashkin jailed after a secret trial on espionage charges. Yuri Shchekochikhin, poisoned, Russian authorities refused to allow an autopsy Mikhail Trepashkin, a former KGB spy imprisoned Mikhail Khodorkovsky, sent to Siberia Nikolai Girenko, a prominent human rights defender, shot dead in his home Paul Klebnikov, editor Russian edition Forbes magazine, shot and killed in Moscow Viktor Yushchenko, anti-Russian candidate for the presidency of the Ukraine, is poisoned by Dioxin. Andrei Kozlov, shot and killed in Moscow Anna Politkovskaya,journalist, shot and killed in Moscow. Paul M. Joyal, shot in street Stanslav Markelov Russian human rights attorney shot in the back of the head Anastasia Barburova, a young journalism student. Shot in the back of the head. Moscow. Boris Nemtsov, Russian opposition politician, shot in the streets of Moscow near the Kemlin 2015 Natalia Estemirova leading Russian human rights journalist and activist,shot and killed Nikolai Glushkov – Russian businessman in the UK who had been given asylum – strangled in England Sergei Skripal – UK former spy – double agent poisoned with Novichok gas 2018 Yulia Skirpal UK daughter of Sergei Skripal poisoned with Novichok gas 2018 Sergei Magnitsky – Accountant in USSR who was investigating and exposed tax fraud by the Russian state. Imprisoned and died in prison after being beaten up. Prosecuted by the Russian state even after his death. Maxim Borodin – journalist found dying on the ground outside his 5th floor flat Mikhail Beketov – journalist left brain damaged and later died Oleg Kashin journalist left seriously injured after an assault Tatyana Felgengauer – journalist, stabbed in the neck while at work Alexander Litvinenko. KGB defector. Poisoned with Polonium in London Alexander Perepilichnyy Boris Berezovsky 6 Russian Diplomats who have died since Trump's victory Alexander Kadakin – Russia's ambassador to India Andrey Malanan Senior Russian diplomat in Greece Vitaly Churkin Russian ambassador to the UN Denis Voronenkon Russian politician who had fled to Ukraine Migayas Shirinskiy Russia's ambassador to Sudan Pyotr Verzilov. Pussy Riot Founder. Protested with girlfriend and others at World Cup Final against police persecution while Putin was watching from the stand. Poisoned on 11 Feb 2018 after attending girlfriend's court case. Mother was blocked from seeing him. Doctors refused to explain. Alexei Navalny – opposition leader to Putin. Poisoned on a flight within Russia 20.08.20 In the Crimea UN's June 2018 Crimea report accuses the Russian Federation of grave human rights violations in Ukraine. e.g multiple cases of torture e.g. Ibrahim Mirpochchaev Crimean journalist, abducted with his father and 2 brothers. Beaten for hours, asphyxiated with plastic bags, strangled, repeatedly tasered and violated with a hard probe used to electrocute him internally. Renat Paralamov, Crimean Tartar similar tale, forced confession. Server Karametov, 76 year old with Parkinson's disease prosecuted for holding a placard in support of 70 Crimean tartars being tried for multiple simultaneous peaceful lone demonstrations. Ervin Ibragimov, Tartar leader, dragged off by men in uniform May 2016. Not seen since. Oleg Sentsov, Crimean film maker, sentenced to 20 years in gaol. Olexander Kolchenko, his assistant, sentenced to 10 years. Gennady Afanasayev beaten, suffocated, stripped, threatened with rape and jailed, to force him to testify against Oleg Sentsov. He withdrew his testimony at the trial. Nariman Memediminov, Tartar activist, forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital- a measure described by his lawyer as punitive psychiatry.
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  2487. Meaning what in terms of London?
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  2488. This government has no intention of looking after those at home or abroad, adequately.
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  2489. Trump has always said he profits from chaos.
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  2490. Which promises have they broken? They've not been in government since 2010. Any broken promises since then belong to the Tories.
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  2491. Reform is not for the working man though the 2 share some prejudices which the party trades on. It's another form of rich man's party.
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  2492. It's like the Roman Empire. I can see the TV series of the future.
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  2493. It was only held to stop the Tory Party from fracturing. Cameron was confident that Remain would win so didn't make a lot of effort to point out the benefits of being in the EU and the downside to being out of it.
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  2494. Lol. Innuendo, a good brand name for a suppository, which also indicates how to use it,
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  2495. I don't know. I think I prefer the straight haired look now.
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  2496.  @johnnyoldskool6504  I think in the longer run it will be handled like flu. Flu vaccinations are modified each year to deal with flu mutations and vulnerable people are vaccinated once a year and carry on as normal, but people will also be more aware of how to protect themselves through handwashing and vulnerable people may still choose to avoid enclosed crowded spaces.
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  2497. I don't think there's a Charing Cross Road in the USA or a Leicester Square tube station, or a number 29 red bus with a destination of Trafalgar Square.
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  2498.  @firewizzard86  Very much not so from my perspective. I'm left wing and they are the opposite of what I stand for. They are only interested in the welfare of the rich elite. They are also incompetent. They mucked up their Covid response by not following the science. To be fair most countries have struggled to deal with this pandemic but those following the science have done better.
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  2499. Beth Williams. 'Who' is the subject of the verb (the person doing the action). 'Whom' is the object of the verb (the person to whom the action is being done). In your case Trump is the one doing the embodying so in reference to him it's 'who' that is right not 'whom'. It's not at all like 'a' and 'an' or how we use those. You are the woman who asked me for an explanation and to whom I have given an explanation.
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  2500. Science. The BBC is just a medium, the information comes from scientists.
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  2501.  @Ayubdj7  It's the Americans who call it socialised healthcare because they are wary of countries with a welfare state that includes healthcare. Republicans in America believe 'small government' is best, which to them means the fewest public services - as many services as possible to provided by the private sector at a profit. There was a consensus in Britain after WWII about the need for a National Health Service. It was proposed by a Liberal Party politician (Beveridge) in a report, Winston Churchill (Conservative Party) agreed the need for it but it was The Labour Party who introduced it in 1948 and at that time the Conservative Party tried to block it.
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  2502.  @michaelawford7325  It was the Labour Party who put it into effect. They were the only party in power during the period it was put into effect. Though other parties claimed to be in favour of it (in theory) during the preceding coalition government period, when it came to putting it into effect the Tories voted against it.
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  2503. @Matt Archer What are you saying? It doesn't make sense. By brevity do you mean Brexit? The government didn't sort out the 'starving people' because that's their policy - work or starve and even, work and starve. They are creating 'hostile environments'. It's called 'nudge politics' only in their case it's more 'boot up the backside' than 'nudge'.
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  2504. @Matt Archer I'm sorry but you just can't express yourself in English. It sounds like you are a foreigner trying to write in English but you are getting some words wrong. Gilt means covered in gold paint. Do you mean 'used' instead of 'housed'? I've no idea what the 'brevity' you are referring to is.
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  2505.  @evolassunglasses4673  'Wanting his country back'. How does that translate into policy?
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  2506. Evil etc. What do you mean "offing" and who are you to tell me what to do?
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  2507. Evil etc. I've just looked up "offing" in the urban dictionary. It refers to suicide. I've now reported you for cyber bullying. Have a nice day.
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  2508. He was 80 yards from home. It must have been tempting to try and get to safety. There's so much fear now about whether the police will inadvertently kill you while you are complying and lying on the ground, after some well publicised cases.
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  2509. He's like Trump. Loyalty trumps everything else. He'd probably have employed the Kray twins as long as they were loyal.
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  2510. @fucian j Que? Trump is not a socialist.
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  2511. @fucian j That quotation has nothing to do with socialism. It's from a poem 'Marmion' by the Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. Socialism has nothing to do with Trump. Basically you are just putting unrelated things together to express your prejudices. Socialism has nothing to do with the USA. The 'left' in America is not really proposing socialism but social democracy i.e a capitalism that is regulated to provide a fair welfare system to the propulation.
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  2512. Well she seems to have pushed up the viewing figures for Shakespeare.
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  2513. JRM. Minister for the 19th century. #10. Suggestion. Opportunities to wear top hats and 19th century outfits. The problem is you can't move the clock back decades on rules when the rest of the world has moved on, because trade is largely international, and as for internal trade, why would the British public want inferior products and services? #1 What a fracking awful idea.
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  2514.  @RstesotTv  No, That's what is done in third world countries. We are not in a third world country. We will get the chance to vote, just not at a time of Boris's choosing.
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  2515.  @RstesotTv  Nigel Farage can't manage to get himself elected. He's tried it 7 times. The leave vote being split between Farage's party and the Conservatives won't help Boris in a 'first past the post' electoral system.
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  2516.  @RstesotTv  They can only win if they have a pact not to stand against each other, and if all those who voted leave want to leave without a deal. Farage's former party (UKIP) which was a Brexit party, never got near to winning any Parliamentary seats, and since then they've been fighting amongst themselves like ferrets in a bag.
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  2517. I don't know what's happened in recent years, but years ago I used to work for the government on the national insurance side of things and sometimes we had to interview people using a checklist of questions to decide whether they were self-employed or not. If they hit the right criteria they were employees no matter what they had been told about their status. Whether people are employees or self-employed is determined by a set of criteria, not self-declaration or declaration by companies. Amazon drivers could test this in court as Uber drivers did.
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  2518. Curtice knows you can't extrapolate from local election results to national election predictions but he did it because he was asked to.
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  2519. The Tufton Buftons again. Can't wait for the government and all its horrible think tanks to be swept from their position of influence.
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  2520. She's upset that her brown-nosing failed to produce the desired reward.
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  2521. No, This is a consequence of democracy. Boris has kicked 21 MPs out of his party and no longer has a majority in Parliament.
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  2522. Trump is still campaigning but the election is over. This won't make up for calling the military losers either. Now they are looking at HIM and thinking 'loser'.
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  2523. Were they not integrating or was there job discrimination? If they were highly educated and could get good jobs in the US, why not in Sweden?
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  2524. Probably a lot of the idiots who voted for them last time.
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  2525. If you can't read I get why you'd consider other uses
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  2526. What does he know?
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  2527. In France they are on lockdown and are fining people who leave their houses. (It's in the Evening Standard so it must be true)
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  2528.  @mtlicq  Absolute bollocks. Try learning some history. I can only assume you are not good at English and said the opposite of what you intended.
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  2529.  @mtlicq  I don't understand what is 'right back at me' since I don't understand your comment in the first place or how it relates to any of my previous comments.. You seem to be saying that fighting against Nazis and for democracy produces Nazis. What?
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  2530. Traitor to whom or what?
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  2531.  @snipper1ie  Yes in Roman times a slave would do it to a Roman Emperor as they rode through the streets in a victory parade.
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  2532. Maybe she's no longer infectious.
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  2533. He is the neighbour from hell it seems.
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  2534. Trivial comment or what.
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  2535. When he says 'We are not talking about the direct line of succession here', that seems incorrect because Charles was certainly in the firing line.
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  2536. The education system is banned from addressing politics. The best it can do is give people the skills and ability to think for themselves based on evidence and not bigotry but it's only younger generations who had much more access to tertiary education. In the old days few working class people went to university which always broadens the mind.
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  2537.  @KimThomas-  No. Only 0.5 million have had the second dose.
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  2538. Why don't you read all the other similar questions in the comments and the replies?
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  2539. Don't watch it then
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  2540. Losing viewers? Well, this video has many more viewers than the clips without this actress. Have a look. Young people are more educated these days, many more of them having been to University, and they well know there were no black Queens at this time but they are sophisticated enough to enjoy the drama for what it is.
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  2541. LexRex. Most of them came to complain it seems. Still no publicity is bad publicity. It all draws attention to the play. I've not found another Shakespeare play with over 325,000 views.
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  2542. Moggy would be hopeless. He doesn't know how anything works in the real world, not even his own department.
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  2543. To quote Joni Mitchell 'You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone'.
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  2544.  @venetiangenoesewarmachine5152  No. You can look up the meaning if you don't know it.
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  2545. The golden goat reminds me of the golden calf in the bible. The worship of false gods (Trump in this case). O dear, remember how that ended. They were struck with a plague.
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  2546. What are you alleging about him? It sounds like a bit of libel.
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  2547. There's no particular logic except that they need to put brakes on somewhere. It's just like pressing stop/go buttons now, if they allow one thing, they stop something else to balance it out.
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  2548.  @kylemc0254  Or they can stay home and stay dumb, just how the government likes them.
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  2549. As a result we've got more read tape and more non viable businesses.
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  2550.  @christopherfield7732  Art is about emotion and imagination too. No two humans are exactly alike, so won't there be a value on art of human origin simply because it is from human origin or. maybe AI will treat us like monkeys in a zoo.
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  2551. When you are on WTO terms, those countries that know you need deals with screw you down.
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  2552.  @emm_arr  Naff off? Are you Princess Anne?
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  2553. Go back to reading the Daily Mail and stop bothering the rest of us.
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  2554. Trump seems to keep changing his mind, blowing in the wind.
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  2555.  @raymondglaser8481  What right does the governor have to change the law to restrict voting, while the elected representatives are excluded from the process? She wasn't being disruptive. She was just seeking entrance as she is entitled to, as an elected representative. Tough that he's on TV. He shouldn't be doing it like that in the first place.
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  2556.  @greghendershot6126  No, I'm not going to conspiracy sites. That's a waste of my time. You can go to independent fact check sites, but I guess you wouldn't want to read something you disagreed with. I'm not wasting any more time on this now.
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  2557.  @xijinping8893  You'd hardly have to sell a turnip to do that. Trump is the biggest convincer that Trump is bad. Chinese troll?
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  2558. He's blind in one eye, so yes.
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  2559.  @1966Depeche  Sounds like relevant life experience for an MP.
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  2560. Why not be angry about the government's poor leadership which is affecting many more people now.
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  2561.  @alexs.1242  Gove did have some good ideas on prison education, but it's not clear whether that would have been funded and he was moved from his department before they could pilot something. Before he was sacked he was also working on measures to help tenants gain more security of tenure (unusual for the Tory party) which got landlords riled up. Maybe Boris was looking for an excuse to sack him. He seems the only one who tried to do something to help people other than the wealthy.
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  2562. Normally I don't agree with interruptions but there are certain windbags who will blather away the whole time, and never leave time for questions unless they are interrupted. I couldn't be bothered to watch this to find out whether that's the case here.
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  2563.  @denverbritto5606  Very slight, New Zealand
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  2564. It sounds like he has a condition.
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  2565. Yes the plan is to jump off the cliff.
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  2566.  @xXTUCXx1  Dinner parties? How bourgeois.
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  2567.  @moraymac2922  Tories will destroy your standard of living.
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  2568.  @Cailean_MacCoinnich  People keep voting for the SNP though don't they? They must think they are doing something right.
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  2569. There is absolutely no benefit in leaving and that's no lie.
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  2570. Most of this video is about a brutal woman called Lalori. Aside from her case, has it ever been considered that sometimes a lonely white women might have found a male slave kinder and better company than their arrogant, brutal and neglectful husband? Of course if there were such cases it could never be admitted, if discovered, and the male slave would be the one to suffer the consequences of supposed 'rape' of the woman. In that sense it was an unequal and abusive relationship but does that rule out that on occasion there might have been genuine affection and feelings in the relationship?
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  2571. I think he's one of the wealthy donors, rather than a Tory party member but it makes no difference. They are all alike.
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  2572.  @paulcummins5231  By masochists?
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  2573. A lot of years have gone by. She probably feels stronger now.
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  2574.  @xstorm_8_shadowx  You call whatever you like. Since making my comment I watched the video and she did cry. You can see she's rather broken when she talks about the attack. Anyway, he's been convicted now. The evidence against him was too strong.
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  2575. The guy talking about historical invasions - invaders used force and violence to invade. That's the difference.
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  2576.  @alexjohnson9200  The outcome is quite different when a nation is defeated in war to when it receives immigrants who come to work. People would have to have lived a very sheltered life not to know that.
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  2577. They'll have to be careful that he doesn't get under the wheels of the trucks when they are moving, and he looks slightly in danger of being overfed. He's got a bit tubby. Otherwise it's a great arrangement for everyone it seems.
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  2578.  BradleyWynne  Then they shouldn't fall over the inheritance tax threshold. At present non farmers pay twice as much tax if they fall over the IHT threshold.
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  2579.  @marcosmota1094  What Brexit plan?
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  2580. How can we get people who know what they are doing economically to stand for leadership? Are there any such people? The economy is now in such a mess, can even people with government finance and economic knowledge sort it out? I would guess not within the 5 year election timescales. It needs to be done in a way that helps struggling people and is fair socially. It needs to have an appeal to voters as well as being able to work economically.
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  2581. Freeports are pretty pointless when there are no tariffs. We're only in the fastest recovery because we'd sunk so low in the first place. We're still not doing as well as the EU.
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  2582. Respect from the brother? Not from the sister perhaps
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  2583. It's not that at all. Years of underfunding and underpayment of staff have ensured many hospitals are in debt and have a high turnover of staff with high vacancy levels. The management is often brought in from the private sector with financial targets to meet to avoid their contracts being ended. There's a lot of cost cutting and rationing. Bureaucracy in the American system is actually higher but it's a profit driven system. People who are covered by health insurance can get treatment quickly but those not covered my not be able to afford treatment. The Tories have always preferred the idea of a private system and the suspicion is that they are content to let the NHS fail in order to bring about a move to a private system. Many parts of the NHS have been privatised (such as some primary care and ambulance services) but the money for that still comes from the taxpayer funded NHS budget. Profit and shareholder payments is the siphoning off of funds that could otherwise be used for healthcare.
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  2584. * Perfumed ponce
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  2585. I don't think the report said he was anti-semitic, and siding with Palestinians and their plight is a political position and does not make someone anti-semitic, but what it said was that he has a blind spot to it in others in the party. In other words he let others in the party get away with it, by not acting effectively on instances of it, not necessarily deliberately. It's the blind spot.
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  2586.  the man with the green cortina  Nope. Free education service.
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  2587. Boris never forgave channel 4 for putting up the ice sculpture in place of him when he failed to turn up for the party leaders debate on channel 4 before the election. Slowly slowly he is silencing any sources of independent oversight or challenge to his government. Democracy is not for Boris but they want to keep the BBC as a mouthpiece for the government, as far as that can be managed.
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  2588. Britain is therefore nicer.
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  2589.  @robertwilson207  O.K Trump's not a Nazi but a fascist by instinct. Merkel isn't anti Jewish.
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  2590. *should have gone
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  2591.  @jimmynich4791  Sorry I worked in a department that Andy Burnham was Minister in and he was a bit dim. He later criticised some policy that he himself had signed off. Didn't seem to realise what he'd done.
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  2592. Habib doesn't seem to know that there is no legal method for asylum seekers to enter Britain.
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  2593.  @BenDecko-ir7op  Why?
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  2594. It's just arrogance.
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  2595. America will sink under the weight of forest fires, flooding, hurricanes, unbearable temperatures, tornadoes and pollution if it does nothing. Over 95% of published scientists disagree with your view.
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  2596.  @DavidSmith-vx1hj  Everyone who wanted to leave without a deal would have voted Brexit Party it's true. Whereas the remain vote will be split between 4 parties, Lib Dem, Greens, SNP and Plaid Cymru. The Brexit Party so far has 31% of the vote. The Lib Dems, Greens and Plaid Cymru together have 33% of the vote. We don't yet have the national share of the vote for the SNP but it was 38% in Scotland. Therefore on the face of it the remain vote outnumbers the leave without a deal vote. It's just split between more parties.
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  2597. If we have Brexit, they won't need to check them as the lorries will be stuck for ages trying to get through customs and any people being smuggled will die waiting. If they made lorries go through thermal imaging systems, that should detect any people smuggling but that would mean investment.
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  2598. He sounds like Tony Blair.
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  2599. I don't think people should be surprised with pets. It worked in this case but often people can't just switch their affections so easily from an old beloved pet to new ones, and I remember when my daughter's last hamster died. I was the only one looking after it, and I was annoyed when a friend of hers bought her another one, because I had no say in that, and I knew it would be me looking after it again.
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  2600.  @hh5050  The flu operates by mutating on a yearly basis. If Covid does the same that might mean having annual vaccinations to deal with mutations.
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  2601.  @stuffanthings  The flu jab is only offered free to people over 65 and people with health conditions that make them vulnerable. Over time the uptake of the flu jab in over 65s has varied between 71% - 75%.
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  2602.  @ThePolicenaut  Think about that for more than a few seconds. What are the consequences?
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  2603.  @paulkersey9857  I've already had the first one.
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  2604. The government did not follow expert advice. They ignored it all in the early stages (January and February 2020). Recommendations from a pandemic preparedness exercise in 2017 were not actioned. 190,000 people from areas of China worst affected by the Coronavirus were allowed into Britain, from flights, without health checks after the Coronavirus had started spreading beyond China. UK government gave up on testing people with symptoms and tracing their contacts. They allowed it to spread on the 'herd immunity' principle before changing their minds again when it was too late. They sold about 290,000 PPE kits to China when we were too low on stocks ourselves. They ran down pandemic equipment stocks by over 60% over the last 6 years. The did not take the opportunity to join the EU bulk purchase order for vital equipment.
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  2605. Oh yeah. Kill the messenger because that always works doesn't it?
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  2606.  @goawakeneveryone4365  How did you manage to travel from medieval times to modern day times? You've a lot of science to catch up with.
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  2607. Thank goodness no one is forced to listen to Kelvin MacKenzie.
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  2608. He talks the talk but does he walk the walk? There are 35 Russian acolytes of Putin in the UK that he has not sanctioned and the Tories have long been accepting donations to the Tory Party from these people.
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  2609.  @TraderBrando  I think her questions were aimed at finding out if he was doing what he was supposed to do. The fact that he reacted in a hostile manner to being accountable for what he does, suggests he's not a good representative. He should be able to accept and answer questions as being a normal part of his job, otherwise it might also suggest he's not doing his job and has something to hide.
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  2610.  @ruthbashford3176  Why should we shut up and leave people in ignorance. If you saw people heading for a cliff would you keep quiet for the satisfaction of saying 'I told you so' when they fell over it. A hard Brexit will affect us all, not just those who want it.
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  2611. Yes but it's a manipulative pretence, in order to put the Duchess and Duke of Gloucester in a bad light to make it more plausible to get rid of them later.
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  2612. So did her children pay. They paid twice over.
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  2613. Don't care as long as there's some competence and good policies. Why do people focus so much on personality? Is it because they have little interest or knowledge about policies?
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  2614.  @Vladpryde  Well not quite (I think) because The Colour Purple is about a particular author's experiences in a particular time and setting and about racism. Shakespeare, though he set his plays in certain times and settings, writes more about universal truths that anyone can relate to in different times and settings which is why people sometimes play around with the settings and times of his plays, sometimes transferring their settings to modern times for instance. This is a play about power and power struggles which could happen with different characters in different settings. You could dress all these characters as gang members or mafia mob members and it would work I think (as an example).
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  2615.  @Verolader  👍 I missed that one.
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  2616.  @elethio  Labour is not so full of businessmen and will spend any money they have quite differently from the Tories and for the benefit of the public. If the Tories are allowed to continue they will destroy public services even more than they have done.
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  2617.  @steved7961  She was talking about the current government and MPs.
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  2618.  Iona Hugh G. Jasole  Such ignorance. Look things up before you comment. They all have to go through quarantine.
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  2619. @Beastbombshell He didn't have to meet them as individuals. He addressed them as crowds and encouraged them.
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  2620. Boris Johnson never appointed any competent Ministers. He didn't want any serious challenges.
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  2621. When they were in the coalition with the Conservatives that regime was known as ConDem - even funnier.
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  2622.  @hoodoooperator.5197  Where can you get TV for free? You pay for what you get and you get what you pay for.
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  2623.  @hoodoooperator.5197  Like what?
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  2624.  @hoodoooperator.5197  Those you have listed are not free. They are more expensive than the TV licence for the BBC and the quality of news is lower on Sky. I'm not sure that Amazon and Netflix produce news programmes.
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  2625.  Bromley John John  The BBC licence costs £155 a year. Netflix is around £10 per month,. That's £120 per year, not much different. Does Netflix do a good news programme? I like history, news and documentaries as well as new BBC drama. I don't know that Netflix does these. You can bet your bottom dollar that if the BBC drops out of the picture through lack of licence fee funding, the prices of these other companies will go up. It depends what you have from Now TV how expensive it is and Amazon Prime always has shows after they've already been on TV and sometimes you have to wait a year for them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-48458598. I have American friends who are disappointed that they can't see what I'm watching on the BBC.
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  2626.  @hoodoooperator.5197  Youtube zerohedge seems to provide local USA news with presenters who are less than professional. Interesting, but not wide enough coverage for me.On the BBC you get world news and there are also investigative programmes like 'Panorama'. I also like channel 4's 'Dispatches' programme. This is in depth investigative journalism and I read 'Private Eye' which investigates what goes on in public life that isn't usually broadcast on TV.
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  2627. I hope the National Audit Office looks into this and brings in the police if there's no valid reason for writing off such a huge amount.
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  2628. Don't invite the whole world over. It's not free for foreign visitors unless the UK and their country have 'reciprocal arrangements'. Emergency treatment is free though.
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  2629.  @drifty_grifty  The money borrowed was for the bailout of banks in 2008.
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  2630. Intimations of his own mortality (he could have died in the accident) probably made him feel he had no time to waste in getting a male heir.
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  2631. Glad about the outcome, but Sir Keir Starter? Is he a Starmer impersonator?
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  2632. I guess the Chinese government needs them to beat up Chinese protestors in China.
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  2633. You have to hope Putin is rational because no one can deter a madman or someone with nothing to lose. It's also shameful how much the Tories were bought by Russian money and tolerated Russian money laundering in the UK before Russia attacked Ukraine. Their 'moral compass' was non existent.
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  2634. Journalists tend to survey other journalists as well. They are lazy like that.
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  2635. There's a misunderstanding by the presenters of this video that it's just income tax that pays for the NHS. The NHS funded from general taxation, that means a share of all forms of tax in the general tax pot which includes income tax, national insurance tax, VAT (a sales tax) corporation tax, capital gains tax and other taxes. You do get free emergency healthcare in the NHS if you are not a citizen, but if it's not emergency care and you are not covered by reciprocal arrangements, you would have to pay, but it would not cost as much as having to pay in the USA.
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  2636.  @tonydavenport100  Read 'Private Eye' for exposure of what the media won't say.
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  2637.  @godzilla2k26  With the post office/Royal Mail, the government still owns about 51% but they've been thinking of selling their majority. They opened up the market by allowing other firms to compete with Roysl Mail. They outsourced some of the probation services to private companies but then had to take some back into public service when the private company did a bad job and also defrauded the government of public funds. In education the public schools (which are private) are most supported by the Tories and many schools under local government control were given over to Academy Trusts which could be private companies. These still get public funding but the Tories do things step by step 'so as not to frighten the children' as the saying goes. Privatising all at once would arouse too much public opposition. Like the right, they believe in 'small government'.
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  2638. Well she couldn't have a baby if she was his age.
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  2639. To solve problems you have to look for the win win solutions and also do your homework about the thing you are discussing, or at least have those working for you do the research and listen to their findings. Trump is the kind of guy that thinks he can gain by personal charisma, bullying and coming out on top, but that doesn't work with independent countries.
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  2640. What? Pretty well everyone had a TV in the 1970s.
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  2641. Which casting choices disappointed you?
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  2642. Russia probably did this because there is growing anti-war sentiment in Russia and they desperately want to present some 'evidence' to the Russian public, through their media, that Russia is under attack.
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  2643. Chicot the Jester. How do you know that? I find it hard to explain some of these differences http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42872377. One woman was even told by the BBC "the BBC does not do equal pay". Well that's against the law. If the BBC was confident that they could justify their pay differences, how is it that they are now moving to rectify some of these differences since the oxygen of publicity was given to them. PWC did a report saying gender wasn't the reasons for the pay gap but you can't trust such accountancy firms to tell the truth. Many collapsing firms such as Carillion were given a clean bill of health by accountancy firms in spite of profits warnings (14 profit warnings in the case of Carillion) and in spite of them having raided the pension funds of employees.
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  2644. Chicot the Jester. That video you linked is not relevant to the facts of the BBC. That video is about America and is more general in nature. The question here is specifically the way the BBC operates and pays its staff and whether it complies with UK law.
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  2645.  @drunkensailor112  It happened before the strikes. I support the strikes because the health service is being allowed to deteriorate under the Tories through inadequate funding of pay and resources. I know the Welsh government is devolved but it's the government at Westminster that decides the budget for Wales. I, myself live in England not Wales.
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  2646. Don't forget those airports captured in 1775. Lol.
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  2647. Trump probably doesn't tell him anything. Trump can't explain anything.
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  2648.  @daffyddduck2419  It wasn't so much their wish as perhaps their only option. I'm sure they'd rather their homes were still standing and their infrastructure still worked and their kids and hospitals weren't being bombed.
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  2649. Well Trump and Melania have been reported to have mild symptoms (so far) so the test seems accurate in their case.
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  2650.  @hashemfromthelandofophir3670  This does not come within Sadiq Khan's responsibilities.
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  2651. Yes they become snowflakes
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  2652. Or = Much Blood Spilt
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  2653. Poetic Elizabethan English
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  2654. But I thought Trump supported McCarthy. He told his followers to vote for him didn't he? It's difficult to follow the twists and turns of this.
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  2655.  @paulmessenger9836  The debt incurred in Labour's time was a result of an international banking crisis where the banks were too lightly regulated. After that regulations were brought in, but the Tories are about to remove those again. Under the Tories we had a decade of austerity followed now by a Brexit hit to the economy and a cost of living crisis engineered solely by the Tories themselves, by Liz Truss within just a few days of her taking office. Worker's pay has always been higher under Labour and they invest in the NHS, education and jobs.
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  2656. The best of them are mediocre and the rest are dreadful. Lower taxes and 'tight spending discipline' means savage public service cuts. UK Plc will eventually be sold piece by piece to another bigger more successful economy. It's between the USA, the EU and the middle east. Already many of our companies and properties are foreign owned. The British will be less and less able to afford homes and become more and more of a tenant class of foreign landlords. The earnings of the wealthy will be stored in offshore accounts.
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  2657. He's maybe playing with the levers of power to see what happens if he pulls one. Like a kid with a new toy.
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  2658. The Queen was threatened with revenge. However she is putting on an act, because underneath she is manipulative, and is working to get rid of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, who, at present, have control over the King.
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  2659. Special red hair though.
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  2660. I don't think nail shops existed before the 21st century. However did we manage all those centuries without nail shops?
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  2661. So the people who vote for 'small government' are more dependant on government than the people who don't vote for that.
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  2662. Oh gawd!
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  2663. In what way is she not entertaining?
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  2664. Rishi Sunak seems really uncomfortable with people whether it's ordinary people or world leaders. It's like he'd avoid social events if he could get away with it.
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  2665. Good. Creeps need to have the creeps.
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  2666. Libertarianism? Is that every man for himself, every man has guns, small government, everyman does what he wants regardless of the effect on his neighbours, and the devil take the hindmost?
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  2667. He's a Tory of course he won't be alright but he's likely to be all right.
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  2668. Millions of people do, so why are you on this site?
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  2669. Emma Martin. I know that. I was commenting on the fact that Elizabeth M could not spell his name.
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  2670. Starmer is terrified that the Tory media will portray him as a supporter of strikes and that will lose him the next election. In the end he'll have to give people reasons to vote for him.
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  2671. Why is he holding the bible? Perhaps he's looking for 'And Jesus said, 'Get out the national guard and dominate the streets'.
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  2672.  @paulph12002  Lol. Jeff Bezos will own the world. Horrible man.
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  2673. Do you know anything at all? 'I don't know I'll have to think about it'. Are you able to think about it for me? 'I don't know I'll have to think about it.' What is 2 plus 2? 'I don't know I'll have to think about it.' Have you had a lobotomy? 'I don't know I'll have to think about it' Lol
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  2674.  @christopherburns3528  No you're not the only one but the fact is that they can't move to negotiate any new arrangements outside the EU while they are in the EU. Those are the rules of being in the EU. They need a transition period, and that only comes with a deal incorporating one. I'm sure they have civil servants working on trying to minimise the chaos of a hard Brexit but it's a tall order. You can't foresee and forestall everything and this government cut over half a million civil servants and many of those still there will have spent their time on preparations for Brexit negotiations . That would have kept them occupied full time given all the nominal votes and scenarios they would have to have kept Ministers up to date on, and briefed on, and the many resignations and new appointments of those politicians dealing with Brexit, but there's also probably the arrogance of politicians thinking they would get a deal through without ever having consulted their wider colleagues or Parliament beforehand.
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  2675.  @christopherburns3528  The sad thing is that today, Mark Rutte, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands has confirmed that a no deal Brexit will sorely hurt the UK, and he said that the things Cameron wanted, have happened. Cameron objected to the United Europe and Superstate ideas, but those are all gone now. He said that no leaders in Europe are promoting those ideas anymore. So our reasons for leaving are less and less now, and the disadvantages of leaving will greatly outweigh those of staying. Personally I think when the final situation has been reached, the public should be asked, given what we know now, whether we still want to go ahead with any Brexit deal or hard Brexit or whether we now want to remain. I am concerned that a lot of people aren't thinking very deeply about this, but they have made their minds up based on some feeling, and then closed them to any further arguments
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  2676.  @benferriggi9765  So every doctor who takes an oath to 'first do no harm' is forging death certificates? Don't make me laugh. It's not the banks telling us about the virus though, it's the government which you say is getting into more debt, so Covid's no benefit to them.
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  2677. That's silly. No one can police people's thoughts but hate speech is against the law.
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  2678. Defined as anyone to the left of Genghis Khan?
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  2679.  @mangopudding5979  It's not as if his actions have not been in the news.
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  2680.  @diehardernxgt2161  That is one of the most radical countries but not all muslims or all muslim countries are that extreme. That would be like saying all christians are fundamentalists.
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  2681.  @Im_Z_4747  What is a 'vinter'?
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  2682.  @straighttalking2090  bigot is an alternative term.
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  2683. Well they are getting Brexit with a vengeance now.
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  2684. No one can be truly independent in a globalised world economy. Farage peddles the independence myth as much as Sturgeon. Anyone trying it will be squashed or exploited economically by the 'big boys' of the global economy. He also falsely trades on the term 'liberal elite' to try and discredit anyone who challenges what he says.
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  2685. *isn't worth it
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  2686.  @asm-ex1jw  Lol. Baldness is genetic. It's nothing to do with the job a person does.
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  2687.  @MrTeaTwoSugars  Outrage not voiced by the press, and which rolls off Tory backs like water off a duck's back.
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  2688. @Lee Davies I think you must be talking about the US because in the UK the vaccination being rolled out at the moment is Astra Zeneca (aka the Oxford vaccination). That's the one I just had 2 days ago.12 million people have had it already. Since the virus mutates it will probably end up like the flu vaccine where a vaccine is needed every year. People may still die after having the vaccine if they had Covid already or within 10 days of having the vaccine because antibodies don't begin to be made for about 10 days, and a second dose of the vaccine is needed for maximum protection. I don't think Astra Zeneca has polyethylene glycol which I think is the ingredient that is most blamed for some allergic reactions to the Pfizer and Moderna vaccinations. I've been reading up on that.
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  2689. @Chaz Jankel More people would die without a lockdown because if hospitals become overwhelmed they would not be able to treat all Covid patients in need, or people with other serious conditions either. Hospitals have saved many people's lives so the death toll would be a lot higher without them.
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  2690. @Lee Davies That's good. Presumably they've been able to make inroads into waiting lists for other serious illnesses then. Sadly it's not the case where I live. There are 1000 cancer patients waiting for treatment that has been delayed because of the demands of Covid on hospitals.
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  2691. @Lee Davies People would not be allowed into occupied hospital areas to film and I can only speak for myself. I had a cancer operation in June. It was delayed by 3 months because of Covid but what they did was contract with a private hospital nearby to use their facilities for cancer patients to keep cancer and Covid patients apart in different hospitals. So if anyone had wandered into the local NHS hospital they would not have found cancer patients there.
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  2692. @Lee Davies You're right that Pfizer is approved for use in the UK also. I just didn't know anyone who's had it. Vaccines don't usually have long term side effects. Name a vaccine that has had long term side effects? It's too early to assess the impact of the vaccines on the spread of the virus because only 12million people have been vaccinated and it takes 10 days to start building antibodies and for maximum protection a second vaccine is needed before 12 weeks after the first one. Astra Zeneca is said not to work as well against mild and moderate cases of the South African strain according to a South African study but the study numbers were small and didn't include many severe cases in the elderly who are the most vulnerable group. In any case there aren't many cases of the South African variant in the UK and vigorous attempts are being made to keep those numbers low.
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  2693. @Lee Davies That's your choice. I guess eventually the vaccine will be an annual one for people over a certain age or with health conditions that make them vulnerable. No one's forced to have it but take up has been high in the UK in the age groups that have been offered it so far. I can't afford to get antibodies by getting Covid because the disease itself would likely kill me. Nothing in life is risk free and we all have to die sometime but vaccinations over history have reduced the death toll in the population (along with better food and sanitation). When I was born the population of the world was 2.7 billion. Like many in my generation I grew up having a number of vaccines and vaccination spread around the world. The world population is now over 7 billion. Science and medicine have helped a lot in reducing deaths.
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  2694. @Lee Davies I'm old enough to take the risk on the long term. As someone once said 'in the long term we're all dead'. I've just looked it up. The Astra Zeneca vaccine (which I had) is not mRNA based. This is how it works' At the heart of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is a virus that causes the common cold in chimpanzees. The chimp virus is modified so it cannot multiply and cause disease in the body. It is then loaded up with the gene for the coronavirus spike protein, the club-shaped part that dots the surface of the virus and is used to penetrate human cells.' As I understand it it uses and delivers part of the Covid virus, but not the part that makes you ill, but a part that can ensure your body recognises the virus. If you caught Covid you'd have the whole virus in you anyway, and most people recover so I don't see the harm in having an impotent part of the virus injected.
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  2695. What all of them?
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  2696.  @Angels1168  Evidence of that?
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  2697.  @Angels1168  There must be loads of stuff on their website. Which part is lies and who says so? What evidence is there that they have lied?
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  2698.  @ErinLMiller  Well medics insist on wearing them. Duh! They also stop people from coughing and sneezing over others. Duh! I'm not going to reply any more on this thread because stupid people wish to stay stupid, so I'll grant them their wish.
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  2699.  Reggie Cyde You are talking nonsense. The Russian revolution is not the same as a democratic election. I suppose to you, everyone to the left of Genghis Khan or Adolf Hitler is a revolutionary Marxist.
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  2700.  Eva Anna Paula Braun  What is this greatness exactly? Do people prefer it to food on the table and decent wages?
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  2701. You don't know what her expertise is and calling her a 'Karen' on the basis of nothing at all, that's misogynist. Ever thought of joining the Taliban? Seems like a good fit for you.
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  2702. David Starkey is a right wing extremist.
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  2703.  @kellysmallman8864  It's not 99.98% survival rate. It's more like 98% but if everyone got the disease that 2% of deaths would mean 6 million deaths in the USA and 2 million in the UK. You need to consider that rather than cold percentages, and that doesn't include the percentage or numbers of survivors with long Covid or permanent damage to organs. Also if we keep spreading it around it will mutate more. Already many countries are not allowing UK residents in because of the latest mutation which is more infectious and it's affecting our trade at the Dover Calais border crossing. It's really short sighted to just quote percentages as you do.
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  2704.  @kellysmallman8864  That's true. Well they listen for a while when it suits them and then they stop listening again.
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  2705.  @natashabegley1346  Is that how he bought his big house?
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  2706. This guy looks similar to a Tory Minister but I can't think which one. However his lying skills are on a par.
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  2707. He's committed slander, which is illegal at any time.
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  2708. Dominic Cummings may devise the strategy, but Boris Johnson doesn't do anything Boris Johnson doesn't want to - a bit like Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell.
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  2709. The level of ignorance displayed in these comments explains why we're in the mess we're in. People prefer image over substance.
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  2710. James O'Brien seems to have a compulsion to interrupt. He's a bit me me me.
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  2711. America helped to create the hell in Gaza by supplying Israel with the weapons to do it.
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  2712. If a rottweiler is polite enough, people will like it.
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  2713.  @colinbaker3916  No, but my point is that no-one raised the other factors (that I mentioned previously) that feed into the costs or price rise pressures. You don't hear so much about those and this feeds the ignorance of the public, though I think many commuters know more.
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  2714. That's Shakespeare's invention. The real Mark Anthony probably didn't say that.
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  2715. Isn't the answer that nobody knows that, or do they?
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  2716. Wouldn't that have been on yesterday's news?
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  2717.  @Echo-mz6tz  Natural selection.
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  2718. He doesn't realise it's got to the stage of 'anyone but the Tories'.
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  2719.  @beyond1957  The Tory party is permanently divided it seems (over certain issues) but it hasn't stopped it getting elected.
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  2720.  @everythingisupsidedown9593  Eh? Are you excluding me from the 'at our cost'? I've been a taxpayer all my life and so supported the NHS.
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  2721. Ivermectin: developed for use on animals - not tested on humans. People' We want it. Why can't we have it?' Covid vaccines developed and tested for use with humans. People 'We don't want it. It's not been tested for long enough. We don't know the long term effects'. Perverse or what?
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  2722.  @ernestrogen4639  Ireland wasn't in the UK until it was invaded and conquered by the British. The border was created when 'Northern Ireland' was created and that was when the British only offered 26 counties back to the Irish as part of the deal with Michael Collins in the 1920s. It was essentially created against the wishes of the Iris but they knew it was a case of accept that or face 'total war' from Britain at a time when their military resources were at their lowest.
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  2723.  @robertscollick3382  NI could vote to unite with the Republic of Ireland any time, under The Good Friday Agreement, but it can't be done by force because the Protestants in the North, who are the majority and regard themselves as British would fight against it (again). In effect there would be civil war in NI unless a United Ireland happens by consent through a vote . The EU is protecting Ireland via the 'backstop arrangement' which is part of the Brexit deal they've offered to the UK, but the Conservative government in the UK (most of them) won't accept that because it means NI would be treated differently to the rest of the UK (in terms of customs etc) and there is no 'end date' to the arrangement which means the UK could remain in the EU long term. The 'treating differently' argument is not very valid coming from the DUP who represent much of Protestant NI in the UK Parliament because they already differ from the rest of the UK in some of their laws and political arrangements.
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  2724.  @robertscollick3382  I think the EU would do more than raise a finger and so would the USA, Australia, Canada and NZ. Plus I think you'd have a war with Ireland on your hands again. The British tried it before for 900 years before giving up on it.
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  2725.  @alanc457  Silly comment.
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  2726. Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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  2727.  @redco9895  For a start I didn't vote leave. Some Brits have occupational pensions as well as state ones. Some have savings or property investments and some start up businesses. The society that needs more young people in the work force to avoid the problems being discussed should help them get an education.
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  2728. What lies are those and why do these people who disapprove of it, watch it?
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  2729.  @bonnieo910  Suella helped to create the third world country. Who has been in power for the last 13 years? Also those who voted for Brexit helped create it. It's no good blaming immigrants. Nice try though.
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  2730. The EU constructed the withdrawal agreement to protect the Good Friday Agreement. Boris is talking nonsense when he says his amendments are to protect the Good Friday Agreement.
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  2731. No. Charlie made sure her actual title was Queen not queen consort.
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  2732. Government by The Giant Hulk. Far be it for me to defend Cox, who often seemed to get his legal advice wrong, but surely his job is to give the correct legal advice rather than being 'a team player'. It's clear why some of them were sacked (i.e what the disagreements were) but there's no information why the women Ministers were sacked. Was it just because they were useless or were there also points of disagreement?
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  2733. Not rational. Even the scientists and the energy companies say it will not make any difference to the international cost of energy. Energy is always priced on a world basis. There are also unverified risks.
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  2734. He doesn't care anymore? He never did care.
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  2735. My priority is to get the Tories out.
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  2736. She was probably badly treated by an adult and kindly treated by a child in her past.
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  2737.  TrembleDaBomb  Irrelevant comment.
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  2738. They don't seem always to connect voting Conservative with the problems they have caused.
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  2739. Boris ate all the bacon sandwiches.
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  2740.  @paulmartyn9028  You mean that's still happening right now? White farmers are losing their farms still? Or are they just in fear of it?
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  2741. She's not Caribbean
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  2742. The reason they weren't used was because they put restrictions on what type of patients could be moved there and the patients couldn't be transferred from hospital unless staff were transferred there to look after them. Hospitals could not afford to lose staff in that way, and people from care homes were refused transfer from there too.
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  2743. Why should that matter? She's a senior qualified nurse whose pay will have devalued by about 25% since the Tories came to power but her London rent will have kept increasing along with the cost of living. Nurses spend years training at their own expense. Some are leaving to work in supermarkets where they can earn more. I bet a lorry driver can earn more than her.
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  2744. At least Gorbachev didn't spend the taxpayers' money on a solid gold toilet, like Putin did. What does that tell you about a man's values and integrity? http://moneyversed.com/crazy-things-vladimir-putin-owns/
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  2745. This being 'The Sun' it doesn't show you Jeremy Corbyn's response.
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  2746.  @ianfroud70  Ex forces? Are you referring to a Brit?
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  2747.  @mizdamazda4884  I think the government and the forces feel they have an obligation to protect those who worked with them in Afghanistan. Luckily for them, decisions about whether they should be saved or left to die are not up to you.
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  2748.  @richardturner5703  My feelings are not hurt. Why did you imagine that? I'm not a snowflake.
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  2749.  @ianfroud70  They have to take him if he is British. They will have checked him out.
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  2750. He doesn't need to make things up. Here's what's coming now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24du25osgRY
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  2751.  @anomalocaris2593  Based? On what? Do you mean biased?
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  2752.  @lewisitor  Probably so, but that's not saying much.
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  2753.  @barriewilliams4526  It's silly to assume a murderer would receive a very short sentence or be let out in a very short time.
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  2754.  @evolassunglasses4673  My part's nice. Yours sounds interesting but it's not to do with Khan if they enter legally or get past Border Force.
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  2755. I heard him say they are more likely to be affected by Covid 19 which is true. Mostly because they work more in front line jobs, key worker jobs, and low paid jobs where they can't afford not to work and employers won't let them stay home. They often live in more crowded environments too.
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  2756. It's about his judgement and character. If he's P.M. will he appear smiling at the door with this woman as his other half? The scrutiny he's having now will be as nothing if he becomes P.M.
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  2757. or is it just balance against the other media's misogyny?
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  2758. I don't know how someone could leave a family member, father of their children in that state even if they are an ex, especially someone who is wealthier and has moved on to an even wealthier partner. Unless the ex had been abusive or violent, you'd think they'd have some compassion, even if it was only for the sake of closeness in the past and the children.
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  2759. Unlike Farage, I suppose, who gets his MEP salary for not wanting to be in the EU and not wanting to play a role in it.
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  2760.  @joebloggs5186  Why would a peace prize be awarded to a friend to terrorists? That's not logical.
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  2761.  @oldskoolrools3087  Whoosh on that one! Do you think I don't know about Indian poverty? That's why it's ironic that an Indian charity would offer to support poor children in the UK. Poverty is being unable to afford food for your children or heating or anywhere to live. People may fall into poverty after having children through no fault of their own but because of circumstances. I think it's pointless trying to explain that as you have no comprehension.
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  2762. Not so. She has age related macular degeneration and can no longer read scripts. Her eyes are not consistently looking in the same direction.
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  2763. How is that a solution? They would have got nothing from Trump. Strangely Trump's lies are more tolerated by voters it seems.
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  2764.  @jorgerodriguez843  Your question does not make sense, scientifically speaking. Vaccines don't have 'resistance'. They either work or they don't work.
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  2765. I thought that women generally underestimated their abilities at least in some spheres. Also, is this related to culture to some extent? Students these days may not be told how poor their real performance is, because educational institutions want to maintain their reputation and popularity. A lifetime of work has taught me that confidence and ability are not necessarily related.
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  2766.  @TheCherryTrader  Did you vote for proportional representation when the coalition government offered it? I think only about 3 areas in the country voted for it.
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  2767. The Background: King Henry Vi is a weak King. Queen Margaret is a strong Queen though manipulative. The Duke of Gloucester is Lord Protector which is a role normally in place when a King is underage. Queen Margaret is scheming to get rid of Gloucester and his wife. In this scene Gloucester tells the Queen to keep her nose out of political affairs which are not for women to be involved in. She questions why a Protector is needed. He says he'll resign if the King asks him to. The nobles use this as a cue to ask him to resign and start accusing him of extortion, corruption and incompetence. The Queen joins in. Then she attempts to publicly humiliate the Duchess of Gloucester by getting her to pick up her fan. The Duchess refuses and gets a slap. She threatens the Queen. The Queen pretends to be distressed and runs off. She's setting Gloucester and his wife up for a fall.
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  2768. That's the flaw in the system.
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  2769. It's the Brexiteers who are dissing the nation by destroying the economy and destroying the country's reputation internationally.
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  2770.  @ZenosOsgorma  Well FYI 'spin the other foot' isn't found by a google search. I think you made that up. The shoe, or boot, is on the other foot does exist, but Brexiteers shooting themselves in the foot seems more apt to me.
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  2771.  @michaellilley6725  If that's in response to my comment about the Scottish government, remember, everything's relative. Relative to the English government the Scottish one is sensible.
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  2772. Maybe because she was a good actress and they wanted to reach wider audiences.
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  2773. Where a story is about racism of people who fought it then racial casting is important but that's not the case here. Margaret was disliked as a foreigner but the drama is not about race and racial matters. If you don't like it you don't have to watch it.
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  2774. Charles Cortez Lol. I doubt any of the people complaining about the casting here have actually watched the play, or intend to, but if they at least watched this clip they would hear her referred to as a "Frenchwoman" by the Duchess of Gloucester. I'm sure if they got interested enough they might also find out more about the history.
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  2775. I don't think it's a big problem. If they start asserting that Queen Margaret was black someone will correct them. In any case they probably think the Wars of the Roses is a 1990 film with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.
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  2776. Decanus etc. Of course this isn't accurate. It's not all to do with the BBC. Shakespeare liked to mess about with history for dramatic purposes. His great abdication scene in Richard II never happened. Richard abdicated by just signing the papers apparently, but it doesn't make for such good drama. Also there's no evidence that Richard III had his wife killed or his brother but it's a more gripping drama if he's portrayed as an out and out villain who did all this. If people want to know about history they need to watch a history programme or read a history book.
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  2777. Grayling is the worst transport secretary ever. (Not just on this issue but on his record vis a vis the privatised railways). He won't be sacked because Theresa May never sacks anyone for incompetence. She doesn't even recognise incompetence. She appointed Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary for goodness sake.
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  2778. Idiots who don't believe there is a virus, and that it's fake news will fit that pattern.
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  2779. Clark never cared or cares what people think of him. He was honest even as a Minister according to his own beliefs. He was very anti-union and didn't understand the need for unions.
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  2780. It has a nice sound, this language.
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  2781.  Derreck Jones  I disagree with the Iraq war but that was under Blair. I never liked Blair as a leader of the Labour party. He was also the one that got rid of clause 4 of its constitution, the clause that defined them as a socialist party. The banking crisis was a worldwide crisis that started in the USA with lending to people who could not afford to pay back (sub-prime mortgage crisis.) British banks bought into that and other credit bubbles and in the end they were all gambling with money that didn't exist. The UK lost money by bailing out the banks but the alternative would have been to allow them to fail and cause a crisis of confidence in the financial sector and the capitalist system, and for savers to lose their savings. That would have affected the economy badly also. At least Brown persuaded US and European leaders to make quick decisions on a bailout. If there had been headless chickens and paralysis as with Westminster Council over the Grenfell Tower affair, things would have been even worse.
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  2782. The Eddie Izzard quotation was about Hitler.
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  2783. I think Fauci's previously answered this many times, but Rand Paul keeps raising the issue. In the end it's no good giving explanations over and over to a fool who can't understand or doesn't really want to hear the truth.
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  2784. They are looking for a place person who won't resist privatisation by stealth. Sajid Javid's experience is largely drawn from the banking sector. Join the dots......
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  2785. No the politicians are divided as is the country. They represent the divisions in society.
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  2786. @@Spitfire1969 Why don't you move if you don't like it. It's not just my chest. It's the chests of millions of Londoners and their children.
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  2787.  @brencostigan  Cases are what cause fatalities though. Cases are the spreaders.
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  2788. @TheTruthWillOut So all the doctors and nurses are lying. Go away.
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  2789. Nothing in life is risk free. It's a question of assessing the level of risk of anything. That's why scientists talk about risks.
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  2790.  @ItumelengS  Everyone takes risks everyday, even if they are not aware of it. My husband and I have had our first doses of the Astra Zeneca vaccine and are soon to have our second dose but it's up to everyone in the family to decide for themselves.
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  2791.  @ItumelengS  Good idea. I'm certainly not the first to rush into new things.
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  2792. What should they learn - to love Brexit, to embrace racism, to have massive chips on their shoulders, and hate everyone north and south of northern England? Nah, it's not worth representing those values.
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  2793.  @barnabylowe1239  Well Spanish flu was very infectious, just like Covid 19 and was spread quickly by people movements, along railway stops, on troop trains and ships and by a big public rally in Philadelphia for instance so it shows what would happen with Covid, if there was no lockdown. The only US city to avoid Spanish flu was the one that locked down earliest, San Francisco, though they caught another wave after they were clear of the first because they thought it was over. There were about 3 waves of the Spanish Flu virus, which mutated, and it did not originate in Spain but Spain was open about reporting it because, unlike many other countries they were not at war at the time and not censoring bad news. It killed 8 million people in Spain. The main difference between Spanish flu and Covid is that Spanish flu was even more severe and often killed within 12-24 hours. Blood also issued from people's eyes, noses and mouths.
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  2794.  Jeremy Horne  No. This is what's happening today in a city that resisted lockdown for a while. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JzzNpgqNd8
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  2795.  @ruthbashford3176  I have been doing research. The general population is not immune to Covid 19. Here a consultant on the front line in Wales explains how all of his patients in Intensive Care Units are aged 50 or under and he's talking about people mostly with no underlying disease. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejlbCmRJMW4&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=3&t=23s
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  2796. It's the scale of the criminality that's as important as the number of criminals but I guess this is just a sample of their arrests.
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  2797. It gets translated simultaneously.
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  2798.  @chuffin-nora6568  WHO may have failed in that respect but everyone could see the news coming from China on a daily basis and the extent of their lockdown. It's not true that no country took early action. Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea did. Germany was better prepared to deal with it than most European countries, having more ITU beds, more PPE and ventilator stocks. Italy was the first country to ban flights to and from China but it didn't save them from a terrible experience with it.
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  2799. The BxP are promoting the biggest con of all. There's nothing to be gained by the average person from a hard Brexit.
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  2800.  Paul Conway  Corbyn does not hate Jews. He hates the illegal and oppressive political and military stance of the Israeli government against Palestinians, that's all.
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  2801.  @fatfat1877  They won't allow us tariff free trade if we're not in the EU. We'd need to be at least in a customs union with the EU which the Tories don't want to be. You make the mistake of thinking that when we're out of the club the EU will allow us to have the privileges of being in the club - like tariff free trade. They won't because others would want to leave if they could get the benefits of being in the EU while not being in it. We'll have to negotiate a deal with them which could take years (deals generally do) and we'll be up against experienced and skillful trade negotiators of the EU while we'll have no experienced trade deal negotiators. What could possibly go wrong? Boris has already given away £7bn of British taxpayers money, lodged in the EU bank, in order to get his current agreement. That's not been publicised. In the meantime, the EU will place tariffs on our exports to the EU making them uncompetitive. We'll have to decide what tariffs to levy on imports. Any tariff will push up prices for British consumers. If we choose to place zero tariffs, it would destroy British industry and agriculture sectors. Also over 80% of our exports are 'services' and about 49% of those are to the EU. The day we leave the EU on hard Brexit terms (no deal) those services would lose their 'passport' to the EU. It saddens me so much that there's so much misunderstanding that I have to console myself by watching videos like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeoT66v4EHg&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=3&t=0s
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  2802. Blinkered Blinken. Blinken idiot.
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  2803. What did he say that was anti-semitic?
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  2804. You said it wasn't about money but in the end it was all about business i.e. money making. Life isn't all about money. The Scandinavian countries come highest up on the happiness index and they are more regulated and have less inequality than most western capitalist countries. They give their populations financial security and peace of mind. They are also more ecologically and environmentally minded.
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  2805. But what would he actually do that would be effective? A lot of what he says is vacuous.
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  2806.  @Woke_Invaders  Yes. I am one.
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  2807.  @stacyharrington504  Spoken like a true ignoramus.
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  2808.  @stacyharrington504  I didn't think so.
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  2809.  @aminajay00  Very true, and they hide their real intentions and only give people a sanitised version of what their policies are. For instance at least a quarter of NHS funding is going to private companies now. The Tories admit to 7% but they don't count money which they pass to public bodies like local councils and voluntary groups when those bodies' only role in relation to those funds is to pass them on to private companies. They declare 'new' funding for the NHS which is old funding and they say they will be building 40 hospitals whereas in fact it's 6 and they are not being 'built' but refurbished. They also have habit of spending more in Tory constituencies and cutting more in ones that are not Tory. How will the general public ever know about this, since the Tory papers don't publish such facts but they will endlessly bash away at Jeremy Corbyn.
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  2810.  @DrBox88  So how was your comment relevant to this video unless it was in response to the comment that' Edward I was one of the greatest kings of England. If he could see his lands now.....he'd be disgusted'. Also you are very 'selective' in your idea of 'Englishness'. There were socialist ideas in England going right back as far as the Peasants Revolt in 1381 when their leader, John Ball, said 'When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?' In other words he was saying there was nothing natural or pre-ordained about the social hierarchy then in England and suggesting that men were created equal.
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  2811.  Joshua Morgan  The white race is not going to be extinct. Don't be so silly and so paranoid. I can't help it if I'm not racist like you. We'll have to agree to disagree.
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  2812.  @user-zw4mz2gx5w  I know that. What's your point? There was no England at the time you are referring to. The name England comes from the invading Angles. There were only Britons before that - a number of tribes.
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  2813.  @geoffedwards-tb4kp  That was medieval propaganda to justify their expulsion. There's no evidence for it. It's a story.
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  2814. The Tories complicated the NHS management by creating purchaser/provider splits (in Thatcher's time). That then required contracting between them and health contracts are enormous, complicated, need annual monotoring and renegotiation. So more accountants and managers were needed for this process. Also the bureaucracy increased in terms of the amount and frequency of data collection from the NHS by central government. When NHS hospitals were turned into NHS Trusts there was borrowing and PFI schemes to manage (the Labour government introduced those). The Tory Health and Social Care Act 2012 introduced many more quangos at a cost of £3 billion for the whole reorganisation and the Tories always thought that bringing expensive managers into the NHS from outside industry would bring improvements. Many NHS Trusts are in debt now and that also needs managing. Successive governments have cut bed number to the bone and beyond so now a lot of management time is spent managing bed occupancy which is always tight.
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  2815. Attila Dobos. Socialism works in the Scandinavian countries which come high up in happiness surveys. Corbyn's socialism is of the same kind as that.
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  2816.  @jamessones4044  No I don't hope for that. Two wrongs don't make a right and revenge just creates more violence. Justice has to be done and I'm glad the squad has now been abolished. I've a notion police training isn't too good. They should have been trained to calm situations down but they started off aggressively which would have frightened the guy from the off. That needs to be addressed too and not just in one area.
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  2817. Trump was the one who let the Taliban leader out of jail and agreed the withdrawal. He left Biden to sort out the mess.
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  2818. He's the Leader of the House, isn't he? It's a bit like a Headmaster behaving worse than his pupils in his own school but if his pupils behaved like that he'd punish them. In fact 21 pupils have been expelled now.
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  2819.  @gentlemanfarmer6042  The Roman dig I was on was at Wroxeter (in Roman times known as Uriconium) in the Summer of 1972 and 1973 under Phil Barker. My favourite 'find' at the time was a dupondius of Antoninus Pius. I have also been at a Viking dig at York also in the 1970s under Richard Hall. I also did an iron age dig on the Wrekin in Shropshire in March of 1973 I think (It was March anyway). I don't remember who led that dig but the Viking and Iron age digs are not relevant to this discussion. The underfloor heating (hypocaust) was under the remains of a bath house. I was not being 'false' in what I stated but stating what I was aware of from my knowledge and what I'd read. I don't claim to be an expert though. Do you?
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  2820.  @kepnjem  Blair didn't leave the country skint. He wasn't P.M in 2008, Gordon Brown was, and it was a worldwide banking crisis (a crisis of deregulated capitalism) that caused Britain to have to spend billions propping up the banks, and the crisis started first in the USA with sub prime mortgages which borrowers could not afford to repay because their ability to repay was ignored. Then many banks worldwide took a slice of the business and it sunk them. It wasn't just British banks that were affected.
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  2821.  @jsmith7888  Actually there is such a thing as modern slavery. It's a real but hidden problem. Look it up.
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  2822.  Chris Johnson  I am calm. I am not a victim.
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  2823.  @alllifematters7080  Proof of what
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  2824. Cumming and Going - characters in 'Diary of a Nobody'.
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  2825. The subtitles say doodle for doddle which means something entirely different.
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  2826. So laid back he's almost horizontal.
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  2827. It's a drama not a history so 100% accurate casting isn't so important. Plenty of white westerners have played roles from other countries. Remember Yul Brynner as King of Siam in The King and I or Lawrence Olivier and Orson Welles as Othello? Al Pacino as Shylock? Plenty of white Americans playing native Americans? The people who cast this would be the casting directors and it's a very well performed version of the play.
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  2828. I don't really care about agendas. It's an enjoyable well performed play. You are concerned about the 'young and uneducated' seeing this. I'm pretty sure the young and uneducated won't be watching this, but if they are they will need to learn that you should read a history book if you want to find out about history rather than relying on dramas. Shakespeare plays are not totally accurate on history.
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  2829.  @thetruth9210  Rees-Smugg in this video puts the responsibility on councils. I'm not sure what council this guy has (a Tory one?) but he says his MP is a Tory. Councils were forced to cut services including youth services when the Tory government massively cut central grants to local councils since coming to power in 2010. This guy worked in youth services.
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  2830.  @thetruth9210  There were cuts because the Tories wanted to centralise control and power so there was no ability of local councils to go against Tory ideology because they would not have the money to do anything extra than 'cut the the bone' services. The Tories used the excuse of austerity to do it. Labour left a debt because they bailed out the banks that were involved in a worldwide banking crisis, which happened in 2008 because of inadequate regulation, but the Tories at the time had wanted even lighter regulation. If Labour had not bailed out the banks people's faith in the financial systems as well as their savings would have been lost. The resulting crisis in capitalism would have collapsed economies. In 2010 the Tories decided the way out was to have a long period of austerity. Again they used it to further their ideology of small government. Some countries managed to get out of the economic crisis without austerity, including Portugal and the USA. The Tories always seem to find 'the magic money tree' when it suits them though, including £52 billion which Boris spent ineffectually. £37 billion of that was spent on uncompetitive contracts with friend and supporters. Those contracts have never been published, as legally required, for taxpayers to be able to see whether they were getting value for money.
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  2831.  @sirsiralot7635  So no one will take account of your views? Come on! George Orwell was not advocating non voting.
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  2832.  @wecandothiswarriors  Why not? The people who didn't vote in the Referendum were enough to have changed the result if they'd voted. It's hard to respect non voters. They can be the difference between leaving us in the poop or not.
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  2833.  @Queen-of-Swords  Since the baby has been found dead. It doesn't seem like its welfare was top of the agenda.
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  2834. The article said they came from London, so it's not clear what their country of origin was, or whether they caught the Brazilian strain somewhere outside of Brazil. Some more detail would be useful.
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  2835.  @mikhailkrasnopolskiy2001  Palestinians never had a state of their own true, but since Jews have established a state of their own in what was formerly called Palestine, and have now declared it a Jewish state it seems only fair for Palestinian Arabs to have a state of their own and in fact Israel signed up to that in 1993 in the Oslo peace agreement. Israel continues to take over land that was designated for a Palestinian State in that agreement. Also you know that this latest round of conflict was sparked by Netanyahu evicting Palestinians from East Jerusalem to replace them with Jewish settlers and then attacking a Mosque in Jerusalem. He knew very well it would spark conflict. I think he is trying to avoid the consequences of his indictment for fraud etc. Hamas retaliated but Israel has a defensive shield that can stop most of those missiles. Gaza has no such shield to stop Israeli missiles so they take much more damage. Hamas has asked for a cease fire and Israel has refused.
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  2836.  @nurieln  Go on then. Tell me which of those facts are false?
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  2837.  @nurieln  I think Israel is the only state that's declared it belongs to a race, religion or ethnic group as opposed to the people who live there and were born there. That is a form of racism and if that's the point of it, it says a lot about the attitudes of the Israeli government. They've got along since the creation of Israel until recently, without making such a declaration. I know the tenants evicted in that particular case had not paid rent. I don't know why they had not paid rent (poverty or objection to forced ownership of Palestinian land?), but Israel has a record of illegally evicting Palestinians from their land in favour of Jewish settlers and it's this record that makes continuing evictions of Palestinians so inflammatory. Israel has been taking over land that was designated to be part of a Palestinian state in the Oslo agreement that the Israeli government signed up to. I think it's you who has a one sided view of things. I would wish only good things for Israel if it would act in a reasonable manner.
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  2838.  @nurieln  A Jewish homeland does not have to exclude all others and practice racism against others. You never commented on my other point that Israel (under Netanyahu's orders) attacked a Mosque before the rocket firing started. What has Israel done to comply with the Oslo agreement? It carried on occupying land that was designated for the Palestinian state under the Oslo agreement and evicting Arab owners of the land in favour of Jewish settlers. The international community in the form of the UN gave part of Palestine to become a Jewish homeland (Israel) but it also condemned and regardsed as illegal, the continued occupation of the lands owned and occupied by Palestinians and the eviction of those people from their lands, replacing them with Jewish settlers. Israel is proud to cite the former actions of the UN but ignores the UN's condemnation of its illegal actions. Israel is selective in what it quotes as justifications of its actions. That is blind and one sided.
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  2839. People whinging because the can't have everything they want in the middle of a pandemic. Ah diddums!
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  2840. 'Firm but fair' as the saying goes.
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  2841. Not canned laughter.
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  2842.  @tidbit1877  *Corbyn. Corbyn is a democrat so he wants to give people a choice between remain and a deal to leave, but that deal would not be a hard Brexit. It would mean staying in a customs union with the EU in order to preserve British jobs and the British economy. So it will be a choice between Remain and a soft Brexit with a Referendum to decide. He hopes to persuade Labour and other leavers to vote for him on that basis, as well as Labour and other Remainers, but I'm not sure the general public can understand or get behind a position that is a) not as simple as siding with Remain or Leave and b) will prolong the process more, but to come out with the best outcome for Remainers or Leavers, depending on what the final judgement of voters is, that's what he feels is the right thing to do.
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  2843.  Steptay68  I think they are leaving because trade will be more difficult outside of Brexit. Economic damage will be caused by a hard Brexit and already the pound has dropped in value. Tories seem to get away with economic damage by circulating scare stories about Corbyn. Divide and rule. That's the way they do it. After WW2 when Britain was practically bankrupt a Labour government started a massive housebuilding programme, and nationalised many industries including the establishment of the NHS and the world didn't fall apart nor did the economy.
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  2844.  Steptay68  You've been fed on a diet of The Daily Mail, The Sun or The Express for most of your life I guess, or perhaps Sky or Fox News. They have been feeding you this line. It's in the interests of their wealthy owners who fear a Corbyn government would tax them more and put an end to their existing tax dodging. Corbyn is not a communist. In fact from his previous Manifesto and current statements he is not much more than a social democrat as you would find in many northern Europe democracies. He's not 'terrorist loving' either. He is peace loving and prepared to talk to different sides to achieve it. After all that's no more than the Tory and Labour governments did to end up with the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland in 1998. He also points out where there is or has been oppression, when he sees it.
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  2845.  @BedsitBob  2016 was a blind vote. Knowing much more now about the options and implications, a further choice allows for people who may have changed their minds. After all, no one has demonstrated any real benefit to ordinary people from Brexit. All the benefit will be to wealthy tax avoiders, multi national corporations and financial speculators who earn millions and stand to earn millions more from betting against the British economy in a practice called 'shorting'. Tell me any known benefit to ordinary people that will come from Brexit.
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  2846. 'It's really emotional. Yes, I think I may have saved my career'.
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  2847.  @doilysimpkin6972  I take it back then but I'm surprised he remembered.
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  2848. Here's something to cheer you up MRWorldGuy. There are loads of productions all the time up and down the country and it's not hard to find something to suit you. Here's a production from Worcester College of a different play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB_5F4050-s
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  2849. MRWorld. In Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet Mercutio was played by a black actor if you remember. As you said that was good and raised no objection, why pick on this play which is better? (As a matter of fact I think that Zefifirelli's Romeo and Juliet is better than Baz Luhrman's,). In predominantly white countries, black actors don't get as much opportunity to play good roles when stories come from white history (which is where stories come from predominantly) and I don't really mind if they get opportunities in such dramas because it brings people like Shakespeare alive to wider audiences and enables them to enjoy him more. Deviations from historical accuracy don't spoil enjoyment or popularity for most people it seems. The French TV station, Canal Plus, recently cast English actors as French King Louis XIV and his brother, in the TV show "Versailles" and produced the show in English in order to bring it to wider audiences. This enabled them to sell it to more countries worldwide so they could cover the expensive costs of producing it. It was the second most watched series in France ever, although they only saw it dubbed into French, with English, Canadian and some French actors.
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  2850. MRWorldGuy. Here are some Aztecs being portrayed by white actors by The Royal Shakespeare Company/ National Theatre of Mexico co-production. http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-soldier-in-every-son-the-rise-of-the-aztecs-by-luis-mario-moncada-49237279.html
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  2851. Truss wants to make the economic mess worse by bribing the Tory party with tax cuts. She wants to abolish 'EU regulations'. (We're out of the EU) and if she drops standards, that will either hit our exports or exporters will ignore it. She wants to get rid of our human rights as expressed in our membership of the ECHR, making us all vulnerable to exploitation.
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  2852. isn't this the fantasy economy they've been peddling since 2012?
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  2853. If she didn't know things, is she saying people were lying to her, and if so who? Did she not see the Second Sight report outlining problems with the Horizon System? Was she not part of the decision making that led to their sacking? If not what does she do for all that money she is paid. It's just not believable that she went so hard against sub-postmasters from a position of complete ignorance. Any reasonable person in such a situation, would surely want to know and hear the facts before wrecking people's lives over many years. What a vile self pitying person.
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  2854.  @rudymental9993  Thank you. It's not easy for people whether they are ill, or well and suffering economically, and it's dragging on for so long.
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  2855. C James S. There is no recorded clapping in BBC comedies and in this one. It's done in front of a live audience.
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  2856. C James S Not at all. It's BBC policy and there's a guy in the comments of one of these videos, who had been in the audience for a recording of the show, and describes how it works. Many of the jokes play on stuff that Shakespeare does in his plays or what's known about him so if you like Shakespeare and know a bit about his plays and his life you'll get more of the jokes. It also plays a bit on parallels with current issues in Britain at the moment. If you are looking for a different type of humour, you probably won't like this. I'm guessing that the people who go to see it are probably fans in the first place and they probably know that an audience for a comedy is expected to laugh. Laughter is infectious. Once some people start, others will follow. Maybe you'd like this clip better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2jMs2Dp2eo
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  2857. Working your socks off if you are as dim as a Toc H lamp is no use.
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  2858. Someone's hitting you on the head. That's fine. He has a job hitting me on the head. Trump is creating jobs. He doesn't want to know any facts.
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  2859. 'The voters of Upper Woop Woop'. Lol.
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  2860. Why was Magnus's elder son Eric overlooked by him for the throne? Why were Magnus and Haakon kicked out of Sweden? Margarethe seems rather cruel burning the imposter but I suppose it wasn't unusual for the times.
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  2861. Labour is pointing out the flaws in Parliament. If people take their heads out of the Tory tabloids they might see it. Thornberry tackled the government with their own figures showing the NZ deal will never give any benefit to Britain, but Labour is not in power and with a 80 seat majority the government can more or less do what they want, because the opposition does not have the numbers to stop them. People are getting what they voted for.
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  2862. Don't Americans understand how international capitalism works?
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  2863. Have you noticed how Nigel Farage gets politicians with different viewpoints on his show because he knows that makes for more interesting TV than just listening to a load of whingers agreeing with each other.
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  2864. There's a difference between terror and terrorism. Terrorism has a political motive usually, otherwise all violence would be classed as terrorism.
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  2865. I have grey eyes with yellow bits in the middle. (Not gray which is an American spelling for the colour).
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  2866. They should teach personal finances at school.
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  2867. He was said to be feeling unwell when he set out. Maybe he was already suffering from heatstroke and that can affect a person's judgement including that he could look after himself.
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  2868. No, Because the opposition know that Johnson's bluff will be called on 31 October, so an election in November would be better. Either we'll be out without a deal and people will have had a few weeks to realise what that's like, or he will have asked for an extension which he said he would die in a ditch not to do. He will be exposed. If we have an election in October he will continue with his bluff that he wants a deal and will negotiate for a deal or that there will be no problem if the UK just drops out with no deal. Also if the bill goes through by Monday to stop a no deal exit, he will run out of options.
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  2869. Politicians are divided in the same way that the country is divided. That's all.
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  2870. How is what he says antisemitic?
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  2871. *paid
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  2872.  @dianeunderhill8506  They weren't main character though.
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  2873. People can sit around and tell themselves 'fake news'. Why pay a TV channel to tell them?
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  2874. He won't read and he won't listen or take in information. He has a very bad attention span and a total lack of interest, and he doesn't care.
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  2875. Anyone who puts 'fact' at the end of their statements is not listened to. It's immature assertion with no fact checking at all.
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  2876. Have you never seen Monty Python before?
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  2877.  @user-eq3jn7ep7c  It sells newspapers but the Guardian doesn't usually indulge in gossip. I think it's because he's likely to be the next P.M but will he bring any dignity to that office? Perhaps people don't care about the character of the person who represents their country now as long as he jollies us along.
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  2878. Yeah yeah, but what did you think of the play? Didn't watch it I guess.
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  2879. You can't really say that if you didn't see it.
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  2880. tysswe1. This isn't history. It's a play. Shakespeare was never 100% accurate with history. He would have wanted you to enjoy and judge it as a play. As a rendering of his play it's great I think.
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  2881. It's in Wales.
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  2882.  @TooSlowTube  I know that Bristol is near Wales. I was just adding a bit more info about the location, not disagreeing with your comment.
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  2883.  @TooSlowTube  I'm hopeless at that game, I'm afraid.
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  2884. The money we pay to the EU, some of it comes back to the UK in terms of investments in poorer communities and the economic benefits of paying to be a member of that club outweigh the disadvantages. It's the UK government that could do something about those problems if they have the political will. The austerity programme they insist on is theirs not Europe's and the tax cuts that cause a squeeze on public services are a UK government decision not Europe's. (Portugal recovered from the banking crash without any austerity programme) It's convenient for the UK government to let the EU take the blame for everything. You'd find if we came out on a hard Brexit with the Tories in power we'd still have the same crap government that won't do anything about the growing gap between the rich and the poor because basically they represent the rich, though they are careful not to say so. They are sponsored an supported by rich vested interests and they do their bidding in Parliament. They also have their own snouts in the trough. Where do they go when their political careers are over? Director of this, that, and the other company. You have to look at the overall picture, not just one aspect of it. P.S Some of the leadership contenders in the Tory party are connected to companies that have been making a killing out of the current Brexit uncertainty. The EU is not perfect (neither is the UK political system) but there is pressure from inside the EU for reform and we'd be better pressing for that from the inside along with others. On WTO terms the economy would take a hit far larger than anything they would save from EU membership fees.
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  2885. It's a Covid party.
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  2886.  @clay391  Android is not the name of a phone. It's the name of an operating system.
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  2887.  @tex8939  Because it's not allowing for the fact that she has her own mind.
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  2888.  @HudsonMedia  You're missing the point and lacking a coherent argument, you attack the person.
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  2889.  @Elementalism  It's bona fide not bonified.
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  2890. There are very many circumstances in which people may start out financially stable but fall from that position. Let's hope you never have to experience any of them. * It's themselves not there selves.
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  2891. It's not parasitic. It's a protectionist club of self interested nations. What are they protecting against? Against low standards and low wages from outside the EU, leading to low prices leading to other markets undercutting theirs. Now Britain is exposed to that.
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  2892.  Me Innit  Oh yeah? That lefty organisation called the Tory Party that he represents?
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  2893. They never do learn their lessons though. They just trot out that phrase to avoid responsibility, and in any case they know the rules very well and know when they are breaking them. Cameron has been P.M for Pete's sake -has been an insider in government. If he really didn't know the risk he was exposing public finances to, then for all his Eton education, he is stupid and that's the least worst thing that can be said about him but for Ministers to allow his hair brained schemes to be accepted is surely wrongdoing on their part.
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  2894. ugaaa5. Maybe not, but I still try.
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  2895. If you don't believe data go and see for yourself. Spend some time outs side Covid treatment hospitals and witness the volume of ambulances going in on a daily basis and the dead bodies coming out. Volunteer in a care home etc.
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  2896. He's saying the task force is not needed any more in the middle of a pandemic. All that this guy is concerned about is that the experts are not following the propaganda designed to get Trump re-elected.
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  2897.  @darrenbellenger1  I applaud your confidence and trust in this government.
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  2898.  @darrenbellenger1  Let's see shall we? If I had £1m I'd bet you that there will be no comprehensive trade deals with the EU and the USA this year because such trade deals take years to negotiate even where compromise is possible. If they are lucky they may agree on a few points and call it a 'deal' but that's all. No deal will be a lose lose situation for the UK and the EU as you suggest. O great, we're going to be the pickings for hedge funds (always bad news.) That gives me great confidence (not). Hedge funds are asset strippers.
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  2899. The correct address is Dame Judi, not Dame Dench.
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  2900. Asset or asshole?
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  2901. I thought she said he did it more than once.
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  2902. So anyone who is not a saint (who is?) is fair game for encouragement of assassination?
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  2903.  @gerardflynn3899  2 minds thought alike.
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  2904.  @BLane-xr1ic  If there's anyone worse than Truss it's Suella.
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  2905.  @clivet3252  Maybe not at the inquiry but to advise him beforehand.
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  2906.  @U.R.2.H  Tories will have parties anywhere it seems.
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  2907.  @steve-en7bm  When they aim to protect the public from lunatics like these.
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  2908.  @stevec6427  You're right that was a typo of mine which I will correct.
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  2909.  @robertmalyn6493  They can't ultimately block it. They can only try to make the Commons rethink on things such as things that won't work, are not good value, or don't make sense but the Commons can reject the Lords' opinions.
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  2910.  @dragonfly6908  Rebecca Long Bailey is very 'woke' and I can't see her resonating more with traditional Labour voters. The party voted for Keir Starmer that's clear. Every party has its factions. The Tories have always had them in recent times and Boris Johnson is not popular with many of his MPs. The Tories still got elected though. I lived through the Winter of Discontent and it wasn't as bad as things are now.
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  2911. @Truth seeker. It was a moral booster. These people have a hell of a job seeing so many people dying and trying to save people, day after day. Don't criticise unless you've been in that position. Such things happened in wartime too.
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  2912. Er, because we are in the middle of a pandemic.
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  2913. Leave food for him regularly.
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  2914.  @EUGEN093  Plenty of evidence in TV news reports and interviews with the migrants.
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  2915.  @barrykingston523  I think it's up to Ukraine and the Ukrainian people to decide what they want. It is an independent country and it's not for any other country to tell it what to do.
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  2916.  @huytran588  Russian stooge or useful idiot? I'm not a US citizen nor a Karen.
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  2917. No it's not. You have no evidence for that do you? The UK has one of the most reputable voting systems.
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  2918.  @stequality  Because there has been research by independent bodies that confirms it and because even those who would like to believe there is fraud have never been able to point to more than a handful of cases.
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  2919.  @benmorris118  Lol.
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  2920. He was going to do a Putin?
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  2921. Of course it did. Do you want the chaotic Tories to carry on with their combined behaviour of neglect, indifference and destruction?
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  2922.  @weswheel4834  No.
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  2923.  @igorribicic8809  Your understanding was right in relation to the USA. It's different in the UK from the USA.
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  2924. He has resigned now.
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  2925. Should have examined some samples before ordering.
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  2926. Um er um er um er um er um er. This is painful to listen to.
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  2927. You've got 46 more days of this nonsense. He will probably still be complaining at Biden's inauguration - if he turns up.
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  2928. You don't understand how PMQs work do you, so you missed the point there.
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  2929.  @Drabbo  If you're seriously suggesting people commit a violent act to harm others, that's hate speech. If it's a joke it's not intended to be taken seriously. The problem is that some people don't know the difference, and the fear is that people could take the joke seriously.
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  2930. the World Cup is regulated by FIFA. The second F in FIFA stands for Football. There is no S in FIFA for Soccer.
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  2931. Scientia mea linguae latinae non fortis est
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  2932. The BBC does not make up fake news. Name one thing that is fake, apart from your comment.
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  2933.  @charg1nmalaz0r51  In terms of 'refusing help' from British companies. What I've read is quotes from companies saying they can't get a response from the government. I've not read any reasons why companies' PPE may have been rejected. The government needs to be more open about that, if it's the case but it is true that at least one of these companies sold their products abroad so they must have met EU standards. When the second plane brings back the other 40 tonnes, I'm confident the BBC will report it but it will have been quite a few days late compared to when the government said it would arrive. The thing is the government makes promises and gives deadlines and media journalists check up on the facts and hold the government to account if what they are promising does not happen. That's their job, to hold the government to account on our behalf. They are not there as government supporters or to make the government performance look better than it is. Frankly the government have created these difficulties for themselves by ignoring the experts and the existing pandemic plans in the early days (Jan and Feb) when the severity of it in China was known and when it's spread from China was known.
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  2934. I've always sought out the worst reviews to see what is the worst that's been said about the product and are they issues that would bother me. I also seek out reviews from independent sources on the internet about the companies. Another strategy is to avoid buying on line as much as possible or stick to known and reputable companies. The thing about poor spellings etc is that that members of the public do make spelling mistakes. A high volume of 5 star comments with no mistakes makes me suspicious too.
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  2935.  @_Stroda  I read an interview with him where he actually admitted that he earns his living by being a contrarian. That was after the interviewer caught him out in a contradiction.
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  2936.  @abethebabe3835  That's an ignorant comment.
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  2937. What does it matter? Don't judge by superficialities.
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  2938. How ironic that he and Trump are always calling others corrupt.
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  2939. WW2 only ended with Germany's defeat and the death of Hitler. It wasn't a negotiated end because Hitler would have fought on to the last German. Putin never implemented the Minsk agreement. Apparently when he joined the KGB, the KGB identified a character flaw in him that he has no sense of danger. Corbyn's views are commendable, but Putin is not in a mood for negotiation or compromise it seems.
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  2940. London already subsidises the regions. It's the Tories who don't care about the regions unless they are Tory territory in the South.
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  2941. Not for idiots. Not for you.
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  2942. @Knowthing Who is 'they' who are telling you? Often you have to make appointments to go to test centres.
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  2943. @Phoenix What do you mean they don't help you? They help if they can. If you mean they don't listen to you, are you explaining things well and being polite about it? Do you have realistic expectations of what they can do for you? It's hard to know what you mean.
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  2944. You want English subtitles for English? It's not difficult to understand if you listen carefully. At least you can get the gist. It starts in the middle of a scene. The Duke of Gloucester (The Lord Protector) says the King is old enough to give a reproof himself, (we don't know to whom) and the Queen should not interfere. The Queen says, if the King's old enough why does he need a protector? Gloucester says he will resign as Protector if the King wants him to. Suffolk or Sussex (can't remember which) intervenes and tells Gloucester to resign. He starts to accuse him of acting as King, and being responsible for the everything that's going wrong in the country. The country is going to the dogs. The heir to the French throne (called the Dauphin) is winning in France where England and France are at war, and Gloucester lords it over the nobles. The Archbishop then accuses Gloucester of over overtaxing the country (via the House of Commons) and overtaxing the clergy. Someone else (we hear but don't see) accuses him of spending too much on buildings and his wife's clothes. The Queen accuses him of corruptly selling official jobs and control of towns in France, and says it's a capital offence. She says the King knows everything. She then goes down and deliberately drops her fan to humiliate the Duchess of Gloucester by getting her to pick it up. The Duchess ignores her request and gets a slap. The Duchess says she would scratch the Queen's face with her nails if she could. The King says the Queen didn't mean any harm (The King is a bit of a weak booby, if you'd not picked up on that). The Duchess threatens the Queen with revenge for the insult. The manipulative Queen pretends to be very distressed and runs off.
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  2945. The people who most need to vote are the ones least likely to, but it will take a great change of mindset in the USA to solve some of these problems.
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  2946. It's not yet an enforced lockdown (like they have in France). It's still a voluntary one.
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  2947. Yeah, let the BBC be free of government pressure.
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  2948.  @Useaname  Nah. I think he'll explode like Mr Creosote.
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  2949.  @Gimenez528Hz  Maybe so, but they didn't do anything about it until the voters kicked off.
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  2950. Fox News is going to keep them that way too.
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  2951. Won't Flora miss them also when they go to their 'forever homes'? She needs a permanent cat companion.
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  2952. People should always read the small print and also those charging such a service charge should be able to justify the size of it and tell you what to expect for it. I believe it's possible to take them to court or a tribunal if they seem to be overcharging. Flat owners would probably need to club together to do that.
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  2953.  @matildafaltyn6253  Medics have microscopes and can examine blood platelets, using the relevant techniques for the purpose. Covid can also do that type of damage.
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  2954.  @alternativevoice2541  I did have occasional palpitations before the vaccine, just not as often as after the vaccine, and they've gone back to pre vaccine levels now. I also experienced increased palpitations after going on an anti cancer drug, but those have also gone away now.
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  2955.  @crazyratlady3438  I'm so pleased that it's benefitted you. Supplements may help many people, I'm sure. I like to ensure health through a healthy diet if I can, but that's my choice. I have to take vit D supplements though to counteract the effects of an anti-cancer drug I'm taking. Sleep well.
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  2956. That's a dim comment since Khan is not responsible for the drainage systems.
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  2957.  @hashemfromthelandofophir3670  Water drainage systems are not a responsibility of Khan.
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  2958.  @iThiink  It's caused by everyone, not just the older generation.
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  2959. No wonder he wants to destroy the mainstream media. He's just stated that the economy grew by 73% in 10 years under the Tories, which is a lie. If anyone thinks it's true I challenge you to link the statistical source that proves that. If you believe him, also ask yourself this - why did wages flatline over that period if so much additional wealth was created?
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  2960. Oasis were great fans of The Beatles. Manchester and Liverpool are only 30 miles apart and both cities have nasal accents. The theory about the development of these accents is that people kept their mouths as closed as possible when speaking because of all the industrial pollution in the air, so sound came down the nose quite a bit.
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  2961. What, as high as the Tory government?
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  2962.  @stonehengemaca  It sounds like a great scheme. Do you know if it's still going?
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  2963. The do something for Britain Party replaces the do something for themselves party.
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  2964. @SillySausage2024 Corporations will make vase profits from AI at first when it's fully deployed. How will it increase people's qualities of life if there is a huge pool of unemployed whose jobs have been replaced with AI? What will that quality of life consist of with no income and therefore no choices? Who will Corporations eventually make profits from once there are fewer and fewer people who can afford to buy their products and services? Will there be a wealthy elite who will sell products to each other for high prices and a large pool of people who will serve them for just food and lodging or will society come up with some fairer solution?
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  2965. Compensation is not about the age rise but about the inadequate notification of it.
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  2966. If the risk is higher for women under 60, does that mean that levels of oestrogen are a factor? I have to take an anti-cancer medicine which reduces oestrogen but does carry some risk of blood clotting, so I don't know whether that puts me more at risk or not. I've had the first Astra Zeneca vaccine but not the second yet. I had some tiredness and a sense of pressure in my head for a few days after the first dose but no pain.
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  2967. Presumably drivers can't choose which hours they work. They can't choose which routes to use. They are clearly employees.
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  2968. He's been on the case for a long time. He just hasn't been in government so not able to change things but hopefully the next general election will bring him into government.
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  2969.  @kylenetherwood8734  What's your solution then? Brexit requires cross border checks between the UK and the EU since we are no longer part of the EU. There are only 2 possible borders. One would be against The Good Friday Agreement and breaking that would provoke violence in Ireland again which the UK would end up paying the cost of. The other is the one we have now which nobody seems to like either. Experts have been working for 4 years to come up with a solution, so what's yours? Boris also signed up to the current solution and called it a great oven ready deal before his election.
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  2970.  @SC-mw2yc  But Jimmy Page and JPJ have since said they were willing to get back together and play Led Zeppelin music. I think they would play with Jason Bonham as a drummer. Robert Plant is the one who does not want to get back together though he did get back together with Jimmy from 1994-1998. They left out JPJ at that time, just so they could avoid people saying it was a Led Zeppelin revival. I can understand Plant's reasons for not wanting to 'do' Led Zeppelin again, but I think Jimmy is sad about it.
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  2971.  @1Jason  You could say, regulated capitalism where there is a welfare state did that. Capitalism in the Victorian age and even into the 1930s did not lift the majority of people out of poverty. It's socialist adjustments to capitalism that have done that.
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  2972.  @d0ntwi11fuup4  Rubbish. These most likely include people who don't celebrate Christmans as well as some that do.
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  2973. The speed with which he raised the money.
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  2974. You completely underestimated Livia's part in Augustus's death scene. She was not just talking inane things but leading up gradually to an admission. What she's saying eventually points to the fact that she is the murderer of his family behind the scenes and you see Augustus realise that with horror knowing it's too late, there's nothing he can do and he's helpless while he realises she's also responsible for his death.
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  2975. 'Heaving concerns'? 'Having concerns' surely. English not the writer's first language, perhaps. His eyes look weird even in the 'charming' family photographs.
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  2976. But Wales voted for Brexit.
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  2977. People call him out on lies but he just tells more lies saying he didn't lie or someone twisted his words or it's fake news. Some people find it hard to take in lying on that scale. They start to believe it's not possible and it's just fake media attacking him, I guess. Also some people want to believe him and are very selective in what news channels they watch.
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  2978. We've already won a gold.
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  2979. Not so. They had 2 protesting Tory MPs in this video, one based in Kent the South and the other based in Lancashire in the north.
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  2980. You can tell he was ill in various videos before he went into hospital and after, he sounds short of breath. This is the trouble when people find they have been so easily gulled by fake news they start to distrust all information they hear, and can no longer tell the truth from lies.
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  2981. It wasn't miraculous. If you've been following the facts he was ill or recovering for quite a while in total - about 3 weeks or more. His fiancée, Carrie, had already had the Covid virus.
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  2982. Trump's ambition was to be a dictator. That's clear.
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  2983. Why exactly is that patriotic? As Dr Johnson said 'Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.'
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  2984. jerina shooting star. There's no evidence that Margaret was black. There are no images of her during her lifetime except her tomb image and a few medieval images that show her as blonde or brown. Images of her parents show them as blond or brown. I see no reason why a black British actress shouldn't be cast as her in a drama though. She's a good actress. I can't see what the fuss is about. Why can't people see beyond skin colour. If they were true Shakespeare fans I don't think they'd be complaining.
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  2985.  @gentlebreeze6414  They share his then?
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  2986.  @REVERSESARCASM  Well you would have heard that from the sources of info you probably consult (if any).
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  2987. The Speaker is third in line to the Presidency after the President and the Deputy President, I believe.
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  2988.  @riansillett2771  The government has been cutting and reducing benefits for years and for Universal credit people have to wait 5 weeks before they get any money at all. The proposal was only asking for an extension to Easter 2021 during the Covid period.
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  2989. @Ugg Calisthenics coach PhD Bio 🧪 I don't support the Tories but this guy does have a brain. Boris was just scatty, never a plan or a strategy, just firefighting the chaos he caused from day to day.
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  2990. Pogues to rhyme with rogues. Kirsty not Kristy.
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  2991. Neil never suggested we should model our economy on the Italian economy. That was JRM's diversion from the issue of a windfall tax on energy companies, which France also did, by the way.
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  2992. He is the King of British citizens whether they like it or not. That's the current set up. The oath is not about people's wishlist. However it is a bit much to have to swear swear loyalty to heirs and successors because it sounds like people would be considered traitors if they ever decided to abolish the monarchy in the future.
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  2993. You haven't been following things have you? He has got a deal. It's just not one that everyone likes and opposition MPs don't trust him not to pull out without a deal.
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  2994. @Maggie Jenkins You're a bit deluded mate.
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  2995. The man who used to dress as a chicken has gone. If the New Chief of Staff is not to Cummings liking, I predict more rows.
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  2996. The Labour Manifesto was costed. The Tory one never was.
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  2997. *Merry
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  2998.  membershipofbus  Democracy prevails. Those who can't accept it are pathetic.
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  2999. Doesn't petrol dissolve plastic?
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  3000. All of them. Jeez, have you not been watching the news!
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  3001.  @JustMe-sy3wc  I could see the people with my own eyes, unless some Hollywood director was hiring a cast of tens of thousands at great expense for the purpose of fooling you.
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  3002.  @SURGE101  If you keep up with the latest news, they say they've checked him out and it was a mistake that he was on that list.
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  3003.  @SURGE101  The UK government said they would take 20,000 staged over a period of time, starting with 5,000. They sure will be needed to fill all those job vacancies.
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  3004. Such as people who can spell intelligent?
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  3005. The Tory party should change their name to Toerags Undermine Real Democracy or TURD for short.
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  3006.  @MrPrestonmale68  thumbs up not thumps up
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  3007. This is rubbish. The difficulties in NI are not to do with remainers. You understand nothing or you are just content to lie blatantly. The Irish sea border is just a trade border. It's not political. It has no other significance. It's to protect the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 on which the joint assembly in NI is based. After we left the EU, there have to be border controls somewhere to adhere to the Brexit agreement. The GFI means it can't be on the island of Ireland so Boris in his Brexit deal accepted it would be in the Irish Sea and he accepted the NI protocol and the DUP voted for that agreement along with the Tory government. The NI protocol advantages the NI in relation to Britain because it allows goods between the EU and NI free of customs duties and controls. So NI's economy is now booming. The only part of the UK that is. The DUP are rejecting it for political reasons because they fear it brings Irish unity closer but voters have been moving away from the DUP's stance on this. They are no longer the largest party in NI. Sinn Fein is, and the Alliance party, which is not partisan, has picked up a lot of votes from the DUP. The DUP are now acting like toddlers having a tantrum because they got what they agreed to but now say they don't want it. The DUP are the tail trying to wag the dog in NI and causing problems both for NI and for the UK government.
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  3008. More managers were needed because Tory governments decided to introduce complex contracting systems that need more managers and accountants to deal with them. They also brought in a lot of managers from the private sector but those managers expect more pay than public sector ones so it put upwards pressure on pay, but to be fair they have a hard job trying to keep within budgets when budgets are inadequate, and so much financial presssure comes from expensive PFI schemes used as a way of funding hospital building, and if they fail to keep within budgets they are frequently sacked, so salaries have to be enough to attract them in in the first place.
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  3009. Sometimes you need a sense of smell. Not useful if Covid or something else kills it off.
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  3010. It's good these days that a lot of theatre can be streamed to cinemas so that more people can see it for a more modest price.
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  3011. IDS is so dim I'm surprised he knows how to breathe.
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  3012.  @glennjones2635  Thanks. I was too lazy to look it up.
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  3013. I found it quite easy to see that she played the part really well. Queen Margaret was regarded as a foreigner in England so the metaphor works well. I think we're past the days of painting faces different colours as when Laurence Olivier blacked up as Othello.
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  3014. I don't think Sophie Okonedo looks to be in her forties. All drama is about a "suspension of disbelief". I think if you watched the whole play, you would forget the unusual casting and become swept away by the story, the drama and the performances.
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  3015. The couple are trying so hard not to say anything which sounds racist but clearly it's about immigration for them. It's strange that it's the areas without much immigration that seem most in favour of Reform. Others seem to be Brexiteers who never understood what it would mean or people disillusioned with the main parties who think it's time to give Buggins a turn. Nothing much thought through.
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  3016. AR88. No he doesn't you prat.
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  3017. There's no point in fudging this because businesses need to know whether there will or won't be. It's a practical issue not a political point scoring one.
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  3018. *hear?
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  3019. But the 'employers' at the talks have to leave the room and check every union proposal with the government. The government is pulling the strings behind the scenes.
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  3020.  @robertdewar1752  I think they would protect vital services or not allow them into the hands of foreign companies. They would also insist on employment law being followed.
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  3021. As long as Trump (or Trump campaign funds) is paying them, lawyers will continue with 'clownish lawsuits'. They are laughing all the way to the bank.
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  3022. That's not Ross speaking but the actor who plays the Irish character, Colonel Despard.
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  3023. Corbyn's problem is he tells the truth and the media crucifies him for it.
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  3024. He'll keep the promises he makes to himself but doesn't share with the public 1) To look after Boris Johnson, his career and his interests 2) To look after the interests of fellow rich folk global corporations and Trumpist allies, in terms of leaving the EU to avoid financial regulations which will inhibit their tax avoiding, allowing money laundering to continue, turning the UK into an offshore tax haven and satellite of the US and privatising/selling off any remaining assets including the NHS. 3) To tell the public anything that will get him their vote so that he can carry out these plans.
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  3025. Imagine if the government bothered to recover the billions lost on furlough fraud or the billions wasted on ineffective and overpriced covid equipment contracts, or the billions wasted on an ineffective test and trace system under the leadership of an MP's wife with no health experience. Imagine if all those billions were spent on the NHS.
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  3026. The Northern Ireland protocol was designed to protect peace by protecting the Good Friday Peace Agreement. Ripping it apart is only giving in to DUP's illegitimate threats that there will be violence from their side and they won't allow power sharing through taking part in the Stormont Assembly if they don't get their way. The DUP's motive is to break or undermine The Good Friday Peace Agreement and that's not likely to lead to peace.
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  3027. So you've never heard of people having an annual flu vaccine? Viruses mutate.
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  3028. I really try not to order stuff from Amazon, unless I can't get it elsewhere. Unfortunately, the younger generation of my family are used to getting things from Amazon and rely on it much more. I don't think Amazon are fair to their staff, or to other retailers.
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  3029. No apostrophe is needed in plural words.
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  3030.  @JimRogers-oc2jd  As long as they can get the skills that are needed. That should be made easier. However qualified GPs and locums can't get jobs at the moment (and are leaving for abroad) because the government is only funding surgeries to appoint non qualified staff which is just to save money, but won't help people looking for doctors' appointments.
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  3031.  @francessimmonds5784  Yes it's flawed but it's better than the dictatorship Trump and his allies would like. Winston Churchill said that democracy was the worst system of government, except for all the others.
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  3032. Comments are mostly about the actress's skin colour. Boring and small minded. Yawn! Not much about the play itself.
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  3033. Since Henry VI was handsome
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  3034. You've just uncritically swallowed what Farage has fed you. Well done. It saves on the effort of thinking doesn't it? Farage only criticises a policy as one for the rich, when he doesn't agree with it personally. He's perfectly happy to accept policies that only benefit the rich otherwise.
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  3035. These journalists weren't concerned about injustice at the time, only what would sell newspapers and make money for their bosses and themselves. They're all very 'righteous' now though.
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  3036.  @mrtee3477  Needs trees.
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  3037.  @romanireva  Ah, the American dream, when it turned into a nightmare.
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  3038. They are fighting a vital battle. That's why it's as it is. This will be the most important decision the UK has made for its future direction.
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  3039. If Trump was really bothered about the amount, why didn't he proposed higher amount earlier in order to avoid unnecessary hold up of the Bill? He wants to look like a good guy while being a bad guy, and if people believe he's a good guy, he's some kind of alchemist that can appear to turn crap into gold.
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  3040. Parhaps because Israel is being supported by arms from the British state. Palestinians are not so supported and Britain is doing nothing to try and stop the massacres.
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  3041.  @stanleypines1026  No one's opinion is invalid on the internet. It's open for comment.
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  3042.  @hopeforbetter382  The Conservatives will just let in Immigrants from elsewhere. They and their supporter corporations make a lot of money out of immigrants. They could now be controlling immigration from outside of the EU but they are not particularly doing that either.
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  3043. No that's just you.
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  3044.  @lynnm.9243  It's up to you whether you have the vaccine or not. One thing that weighed with me is that over a million people in the UK are now suffering with Long Covid, which is long term symptoms or damage. That represents about 25% of those who have had Covid. I've had vaccinations throughout my life so I didn't get polio and I didn't get smallpox and now smallpox has been eradicated from the world because of the vaccination. Not everything in medicine is bad, but people must be informed of the risks and make their own minds up.
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  3045.  @lynnm.9243  It's up to you. You don't have to justify yourself to me. I just put forward arguments for the vaccine but it's an individual decision whether to have it or not.
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  3046. Daks Hund Short a and you pronounce the d at the end of hund. It's a German word. Listen to the Germans say it.
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  3047. The market rules. If you say stuff that people loathe they will not buy your products and the companies that employ you will not buy them either.
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  3048.    I'm not excusing bombing but explaining. Obama was being criticised by Republicans, Trump among them, for not being American and for being a terrorist sympathiser, if you remember. I guess he felt he had something to prove and he did rid the world of Osama Bin Laden.
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  3049. That's a strength in his eyes.
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  3050. *to retire
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  3051. It was David Cameron (Tory) who introduced the requirement doe cutting pollution that requires Khan to go ahead with this.
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  3052.  @chips1889  Boris introduced it but he ceased to be Mayor in 2016. The target requirement set was for 2020. I understand that Cameron set the requirement for air pollution reduction. 'More than 80 per cent of central London would be expected to meet the nitrogen dioxide (NO2) annual EU legal limits in 2020'. So even Boris might have had to extend it if the target was not met.
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  3053.  @tomben6180  👍 Thanks
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  3054.  @montanas4174  No he never thought that. He is a brave man.
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  3055.  @snovimgodom2009  Because if Navalny died at that point, in the glare of publicity, the finger would have been pointing at Putin.
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  3056. I see from newspaper headlines today that Rishi Sunak is intending to pour money into digitalising health service data. When a significant portion of sick people are dead, and data is all digitalised, that will make it easier for private American companies to take over the hospitals won't it? Then they will stop doctors from criticising the politicians. Result for Boris.
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  3057. Decent regulation? I thought Rees-Smugg was all for deregulation. As for 'scare stories' I remember seeing videos from the US showing fire coming through people's water supply.
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  3058. If he said 'like' a bit less, finished his sentences and didn't digress so much, it would be easier to concentrate on what he's saying.
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  3059.  @peterscott2395 My pedantry is obviously necessary since you can't spell pedant. I prefer to regard it as a free education service.
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  3060.  @peterscott2395  Thanks. I love language.
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  3061.  @peterscott2395  At school if we made a spelling mistake we had to write it out correctly 3 times. However my daughter's spelling education was not as strict. Really you learn most vocabulary and spelling by reading a lot, which I also loved to do. We speak according to the company we're in and that's natural. I worked in a factory once and had to shout out in a Liverpool accent or people would not understand me. Swearing also helped. Lol it all adds to the fun.
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  3062.  @peterscott2395 I was taught Latin too,. That does help with understanding grammar and the meaning of words that we've derived from that language, but 2 other things helped me. I really enjoyed primary and junior schools and in junior school we had a great library that we were taken to get books once a week. Also we had a great local library and I would borrow the maximum 5 books that you could keep for about 3 weeks. My siblings were very much older than me and had all left home by the time I was 10 years old and I had to amuse myself like an only child would.
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  3063.  @peterscott2395  Thanks. Nice sharing with your too.
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  3064. He has a voice like a cartoon character.
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  3065. ??? Andy is a northerner.
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  3066. He criticised Charles for his environmental concerns, called him 'Charley boy' and expressed a hope that the Queen would outlive him so that he never reigns. Farage of course is a sceptic when it comes to global warming and suchlike.
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  3067. Easily. A gas leak in an empty house or a house with someone without much sense of smell, or the leak is a large one and someone smokes or switches a light on.
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  3068.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  Ours leaked after a gas service when the serviceman disconnected a gas pipe and then didn't re-connect it safely. Luckily I stayed in the house after he left and noticed the massive gas leak. I switched off the gas and rang British Gas to come and fix it. If I'd left the house at the same time as the original gas man 'finished' his work, there would have been no house to come back to.
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  3069.  @ed.771  I agree with you there. At least Stevens is going to sit as a cross bencher (non aligned) rather than a Conservative.
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  3070.  @westcoast747  She doesn't dislike white people but she was the first female black MP elected to Parliament 33 years ago and given the inequality and discrimination around you would expect her to bat for her constituency, just as Tory MPs bat for the wealthy and the corporate lobby groups.
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  3071. Yep. The bullshit is all his own.
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  3072. The lead in another popular British drama, Aidan Turner in 'Poldark', is also Irish and a main character in the popular TV show, 'Fleabag' is Irish (Andrew Scott) not to mention the popular comedy show 'Mrs Brown's Boys' being an all Irish cast. There are also other high profile Irish actors I could mention. You are doing well.
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  3073.  @williamacheson3569  I'm British so I know about these shows because I watch them. I have also seen Cillian Murphy in a one man Irish play at the National Theatre and Aidan Turner on stage in London in 'The Lieutenant of Inishmore' by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. There is plenty of other talent here too, as you suggest.
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  3074. Trump apparently wants to fund more expeditions to the Moon, but he's not prepared to fund the healthcare of patients with no insurance cover in the Covid 19 crisis.
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  3075.  @JD-nd1oz  As long as he takes himself off there on a one way ticket.🤦‍♀️
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  3076.  @luboss0008  Do you vote on the grounds of race rather than policies?
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  3077.  @luboss0008  You ignoramus! It's the government that funds the police. If they give less to Mayor's and councils then Mayors and councils have less in their budgets for police. Since 2010 government cuts to police budgets have resulted in 20,000 fewer police. Khan actually put some of his London money into those budgets to try and make up for some of the cuts but he doesn't have enough spare money to make up for the scale of government cuts. Also the government has more generally cut central funding to councils by 80% since 2010. They hope that voters will blame local councils and Mayors for the consequences, and by golly they were right on your account.
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  3078. Walter Bonilla. That's not the point. If the workers are making more profit for the company they deserve a fair share of that. Unfortunately they were naive enough to think Trump was on their side when they voted for him. They're having to learn the hard way what his interests really are. Why not look at the other side of the coin and say, the corporate profiteers are living comfortably enough, so why do they need more of the profit and more tax cuts?
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  3079. They both had to try hard to stop themselves laughing at references to his dongle.
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  3080.  @ervie60  I detected no irony in Hoggarth's comment. Just rudeness. What do you mean he is consequent? Consequent of what? You need to look up the meaning of that word. Hoggarth's rudeness was directed at the commenter with the Spanish sounding name. It wasn't directed at the Royal family or Bercow.
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  3081.  @jujutrini8412  I don't think they care at all whether they get passenger fares or how much they get since their contracts mean the government will pay them, regardless. The taxpayer's wallet is deeper than the magic money tree is high, it seems.
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  3082. Aren't they starving to death? Perhaps they want to repopulate Shanghai.
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  3083. Rishi shows he can lie with the best of them. A suitable replacement for Boris? Boris has to pull his socks up? I think Boris has lost his socks at this stage.
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  3084. No one cheated. Republicans are just sore losers.
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  3085.  @1MarkKeller  He's probably just incontinent.
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  3086. Your standards are beyond low.
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  3087. The c in coup de grace is pronounced like a double ss sound, like grass with a short a sound. It is not silent. When there's a vowel at the end of a French word, the preceding consonant is not silent.
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  3088. She won't close airports. Money making is the most important thing to the Tories.
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  3089.  @ArtyEffem  He's had 8 failed attempts at that.
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  3090.  @mickbmx  No. I think it's Conservative ineptitude. As part of the EU illegals could be returned to France but that arrangement doesn't apply under Brexit. It made things worse.
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  3091. He's having a tantrum or perhaps a 'tantrump'.
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  3092. Plenty of people have expressed regret for not having the jab while they were dying in ICU and they've been recorded saying it. There have been news reports and video recordings. Sadly many are no longer alive to express any regret. I'm sure a lot of people with long Covid regret not having the vaccine also. That's not to deny that some people have suffered from side effects but in the scale of things the vaccines have saved more than they have harmed.
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  3093.  @alibobsmarland9572  If only problems with shoes were the worst of the Tory failures, we might still have an economy.
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  3094. The signs in that part of the park say that dogs should be on a leash. He saw the dog rampaging through some new planting areas and asked her to put it on a leash. She reacted to him for that.
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  3095. IWe live on a planet where what nations do affects each other.
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  3096. Birds of a feather flock together.
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  3097. You can just tell it's bad when you're down there. I travelled for over 30 years on the tube on some of the worst lines she mentioned. I have had a few lung illnesses.
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  3098.  @annab6948  The devil has been cast out.
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  3099. Why waste time reading your ignorant comment?
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  3100. It means when the subject is feeling low, depressed and envious of others for various reasons, he reminds himself of a love that meant so much to him that he would not change his place with Kings.
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  3101. Expectations of young people seem to have reduced. I once had a friend who stayed for a while in a very mouldy room. I don't know whether it's connected but she developed a rare lung disease which eventually killed her.
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  3102. P&O paid more to their shareholders than they were in deficit, and they didn't sack any French workers, only British ones. I'd be surprised if the government takes any effective action. They will just make outraged noises about this until time has passed and it's no longer news.
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  3103.  @johnfletcher1611  Covid affects people with underlying conditions (such as diabetes, COPD and obesity) more than those without. That's true, but the way it affects them can mean it damages their organs even if those organs were healthy beforehand. Look at the science or listen to what medics say.
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  3104. You need to watch the whole thing. The Duke of Gloucester is Lord Protector which is like a Regent for an underage King but Henry is no longer underage. He's just weak minded and a bit mentally unstable (he actually suffers from mental breakdowns in his reign). The Queen is a strong character but a foreigner. She plots with the Duke of Suffolk or Sussex (can't remember which) to get rid of Gloucester and his wife. When Gloucester tries to shut the Queen up at the beginning, she raises the question of his need to be Protector. Suffolk or Sussex asks him to resign and then everyone starts accusing Gloucester of all manner of corruption. The Queen then provokes the Duchess of Gloucester into an open act of rebellion by trying to humiliate her. She's setting up the Gloucesters for their fall from power which follows later.
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  3105.  @ub2bn  No, sorry, it was quite some time ago and the interviewer wasn't someone famous, not famous to me anyway. I hardly read magazines except in a dentist's or doctor's waiting room. I wouldn't forget Peter's name. My husband went to school with him.
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  3106.  @ub2bn  From everything I've read (and I don't read clickbait) and from what I've read about how the virus spreads, being 'proportionate' in terms of lockdown or other measures, as Peter Hitchens suggests, would not work. Maybe if, in the beginning, we had enough tests to ensure we knew who had the virus and who they'd all been in contact with, it might have worked, but there were never enough tests in the beginning (there still aren't now) and once the spread escalates, it quickly gets beyond any possibility of controlling it with testing and tracing alone.
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  3107.  @ub2bn  Your comment fails to understand that by not quarantining those who you think are not in danger, you are putting others in danger because they may share accommodation and because it's not possible to be completely sure who's in danger and who isn't . We were told only old people and the vulnerable were in danger but younger people with no obvious health issues are also dying from Covid 19.
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  3108.  @johng1634  do you remember every magazine you've read at the dentist's some years ago? It was the content of the article that I remembered because it interested me because his admission was so startling. Believe what you want or what you don't want. I prefer to follow the advice of experts derived from science. Otherwise you get this sort of thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NezEbDx4B9A&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=3&t=9s
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  3109. You enjoy paying millions for no return do you? Perhaps we can send Suella there.
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  3110. Perhaps Boris should stop treating Starmer as if he's the PM at PMQs.
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  3111. The new elite is the same as the old elite over time, and many of them are elected. The managerial, middle class is not the elite. They are not the owners of the means of production. They work for others including big corporations. They do what is expected of them by their employers. People who disagree with the opinions of the middle class, call them an elite as a way of undermining them. It benefits the real elite to squeeze the size of the middle class. What you are talking about are cultural differences. This sort of stuff, propounded in this video is sheer ignorance which fails to understand the meaning of the term 'elite' and these false elite theories are pushed by the real elite and their supporters as a distraction from seeing their real power.
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  3112.  @zacharyquentin-lewis1303  It makes me sad to think that people will still vote for the same old crooks because they believe the propoganda the Tory politicians and papers put out about Corbyn. Turkeys will still vote for Xmas it seems.
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  3113.  @esetravels  Yes you are right. It's 1960. My search engine provided me with the date that it became a Republic rather than its independence date, though I had searched with the question 'When did Nigeria achieve independence?'
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  3114.  @thomasscott1570  Not if I wanted to make a protest for independence. I understand why he would not do it. I'm not justifying bowing, just explaining why it would be the protocol in that situation
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  3115. If they wash their hands before and after that's all that's needed.
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  3116. I'm afraid this is an example of people taking things into their own hands and that leads to chaos. I blame Dominic Cummings. He was seen to do what he damn well pleased regardless of the rules and he was allowed to do it. How you get elements of the general public to follow the rules after that is difficult.
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  3117.  Scottish  This is not about the left wing. Trumpists in the USA also don't want to follow the rules. Look at members of the public in Florida saying that having to wear a mask is communism or the work of the devil and that masks kill people. Look at all the people in the UK flooding to the beaches and ignoring social distancing. It also comes from the top with Trump saying that people only wear masks as a sign that they are against him. wtf. In his mind it's all about him.
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  3118. Talk about going overboard. Good job you are not in a policy unit.
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  3119. Where did he go? He didn't look that old. Actually he looks like Postman Pat's cat.
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  3120. Be careful what you wish for.
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  3121.  @Trancedd  I agree with you that science is ever changing, ever flowing. That's the nature of science. We are always learning. When people say 'trust science' others may misunderstand it as 'this is the definitive truth' (and therefore they may distrust it) whereas it means this is the best knowledge we have at the moment. Science is based on hypothesis, testing, and results that are repeatable or verifiable by peers, so it's the best process we have. It can be challenged by other hypotheses in the light of further knowledge or empirical evidence but these also have to be testable, verifiable and repeatable. That's very different from conspiracy theories which anyone can throw into the media without verifiable evidence.
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  3122. No.
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  3123.  @Dylan-co2cl  They won't. I promise you. Do you want these awful, useless, chaotic and malign Tories to get in again? I hope not.
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  3124. I saw a comment from one of his constituents saying what a useless local MP he is and he gave very partial advice to the government (I read it) and his advice was unanimously judged to be incorrect by 11 Supreme Court judges so it looks as though he's useless as an Attorney General too. His only use looks to be eating good dinners and insulting his fellow MPs to cover up his own incompetence.
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  3125. The early symptoms can be mild and younger people tend to get milder symptoms as their immune systems are stronger. However it takes about 10 days to find out whether they get the more severe follow on symptoms e.g pneumonia.
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  3126.  @nicolapowell7730  From Birmingham
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  3127. If Sunak brought down Johnson, that's a good achievement.
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  3128. It would not have destroyed it for Shakespeare.
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  3129.  @davedave4699  How has he 'screwed over London or destroyed it? He is trying to do something about crime levels. It was the Tory government that cut police budgets massively so that police numbers were cut by 20,000 nationally. Khan actually allocated some extra money to police budgets in London though he could not make up for the scale of government cuts, because he has less money at his disposal than the government does. He also increased stop and search. The government since 2010 has made massive cuts to local government budgets and social services budgets which are managed by local government so many cuts fell on services for youths and facilities used by youths which has driven an upsurge in crime as well as increases in youth unemployment. The government tends to work against Khan rather than with him as they want a Tory mayor in power in future.
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  3130.  @davedave4699  TfL will need a bail out because of Covid when people largely stopped travelling by public transport. That's nothing to do with Khan. I now believe you are pushing this nonsense for racist and ideological reasons and there's no point in me continuing this dialogue.
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  3131.  @joba4848  Boris Johnson wasted more money of vanity projects than anyone, including The Garden Bridge and the £1m buses that don't ventilate properly in the Summer months. Also he ought second hand water canons for crowd control which were useless as they are illegal to use in the UK. Khan probably has to spend money on PR to counteract the constant lies and bullshit from people like you.
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  3132.  @davedave4699  This is because of Covid but the government cut police funding by far more when there was no Covid. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/17/sadiq-khan-demands-emergency-help-for-london-services
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  3133.  @joba4848  There is new housing - over 12,000 affordable units in 2019 41% of which are social housing or London affordable rent housing which is equivalent.
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  3134. Lol. It looks more like fighting.
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  3135. Too much vague waffle punctuated by too much interruption.
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  3136.  @jb175  They seem perfectly happy in Scandinavian countries which is really the model Labour was copying.
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  3137. And that's why we have such terrible politicians because people are so superficial in the way they vote. There are some constituencies who would vote for a chimpanzee if it was standing for the ' right' political party.
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  3138. Distract us all with talk of illegal immigration. That will save Cummings won't it?
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  3139. They have to speak that slowly otherwise it goes over the heads of the audience at Tory conferences.
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  3140. He reminds me of a mafia lawyer.
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  3141.  @douglasmacari8707  You think Starmer will be worse than the Tories? Think about how much more damage the Tories will do in another 5 years. Starmer is too timid to be bold as he fears the Tory tabloid press. However if he gets elected I think he will aim to improve things albeit not as fast as people would want but that's better than making things worse and realistically it's the only party that can oust the Tories. Over time as the economy improves I believe he will take more steps to improve people's lives.
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  3142.  @terencehoughton5734  My priority is to get rid of the Tories. What's yours?
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  3143.  @simonmilner-edwards4305  You're certainly not getting rid of the Tories by not voting Starmer. Who will do more damage in the next 5 yrears, Starmer who is timid or the Tories who are gung ho for Brexit and destroying poeple's rights?
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  3144.  @TheGreatPerahia  He even looks like the original, if you imagine he lived to this age, and he's from Warwickshire too.
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  3145.  @ScottishRoss27  Well it would be good to do those things but as long as people vote Tory is won't happen. We're just human resources to be exploited and property and land assets to be stripped and sold off. Tories never invest in English companies or English food production. Most of the public funds which are spent on people in the UK come from the very sectors that will be damaged by Brexit, especially a hard Brexit.
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  3146. David Walliams is a comedian and a very successful children's author.
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  3147. I condemn the Hamas attack in Israel but these people are not as unsafe as the people in Gaza or even the people in Israel . I wish there was a bit of balance or perspective. Why is 'Palestine will be free' a genocidal chant?
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  3148.  @Sousaice  You don't have to kick and beat them that much.
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  3149.  @ukchatman4920  He was only 80 yards from home, I guess he thought he might be safer if he got there.
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  3150. There's a house in Romsey, England, I believe it's called King John's house but it has nothing to do with King John. However troops of Edward I were once stationed there and one drew a cartoon image of Edward I on the wall. It was a profile view and he drew him with a big nose.
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  3151. Of course it should make a difference to Fox news otherwise they will get sued again.
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  3152. You jest. The Tories can't appoint a SNP leader.
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  3153. As she explained, the UK law doesn't currently allow for group exonerations. She said the government could change that by changing the law, so why don't they, is the question they need to answer.
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  3154.  @useyourbrain.5574  It's corrupt when the verdict doesn't go your way eh? All Mr Yaxley Lennon had to do was provide evidence to support his allegations that would stand up in court and you can't claim that this case was in any way corrupt based on any cases or mistrials in the past. Each case is considered and tried on its own merits.
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  3155. What is the scam?
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  3156.  @fav9925  Same sort of things happened in WW2, well they did in the UK anyway and nobody whined. They just got on with it. There are conflicts of interest all over the place with the UK government handing contracts, without competition to private companies, who give them funds, to test and trace and the company subcontracts the work to 29 other companies and a mess is made of it. How do you know Gates, the BBC and the Guardian are going to profit from vaccines. Gates funds a lot of things from his charity foundations, not for profit.
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  3157.  @schmeegil2240  *won't say anything or will say fk all (know your language)
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  3158.  @schmeegil2240  Stupid or misinformed and absorbing conspiracy theories.
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  3159.  @schmeegil2240  His profit is from Microsoft but he also gives a lot of money to charity which is spent to improve people's lives in the third world without any profit from that. Can you not understand the difference or are you hard of thinking?
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  3160.  @schmeegil2240  Not articulate either then.
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  3161.  @schmeegil2240  Even the man criticising Gates didn't say he was making a profit from the vaccine, just that he was making the vaccine and had donated money to the CDC which sounds commendable. The same critic calls Dr Fauci corrupt which is laughable. Income to cover costs so that more vaccine can be made is not 'profit'. Profit is when you charge more for something than it costs to make, and keep that extra money yourself.
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  3162.  Arran Robeson  Yes it's shocking that diarrhoea kills over 2 million a year but the government has been cutting overseas aid in response to demands from their supporters. The fact is they don't care so much about poor babies in other countries dying. They just want to deal with threats to themselves in their own countries. It's not a scam because you think it's the wrong policy or that the government is focussing on the wrong things. The virus has also been killing younger people with conditions and vulnerabilities and even younger people who survive it can have long term health effects. Those are not being counted. The government is also locking down in Labour voting areas more than conservative ones, even when the spread has been worse in conservative areas. Leaked emails have revealed this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSiUv4g-rR4
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  3163.  @Kraken54321  Covid is certainly worse than the common cold which rarely kills people. Pneumonia can be a result of Covid as well as blood clotting, strokes and organ damage. Some people get it that badly and other people hardly notice the symptoms but the death rate would be far worse if not for preventative measures to avoid out of control spreading, and good hospital treatment. The death rate is probably understated in the UK because in the beginning only those who were tested had deaths attributed to Covid and tests were only done once people got to hospital. Loads of people died untested in care homes and so were not counted. An independent rough check is provided by the measure of the rise in deaths this year compared to previous years. This is called the' excess deaths figure' which includes deaths from all causes. That had certainly gone up well beyond the declared Covid death figures.
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  3164.  @Kraken54321  No it isn't unless they've tested positive for Covid. On the other hand people who've had Covid for more than 28 days and die are not counted at all.
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  3165.  Arran Robeson  They've not taken away my freedom and liberty. I choose to co-operate with public health guidance for the benefit of the community. People pulled together like that in WW2 and didn't whine about it.
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  3166.  @Kraken54321  Yes because that is openly declared as the instruction given to medics in relation to Covid stats. There were thousands who died in care homes though who were never tested for Covid although they showed all the symptoms. The handling of the pandemic and date collection was messed up but as I've said before the independent check figure is the excess death figure in time of Covid compared to previous years. That means deaths from all causes this year compared to deaths from all causes in previous years. Last time I saw that a few months ago the excess deaths were 60,000 when the Covid deaths data was 45,000. This indicates Covid deaths were more likely understated rather than overstated. Since then they've dropped out 5k deaths where patients had tested positive for Covid but died after 28 days.
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  3167.  @Kraken54321  ???They already know. The government are the ones who decided not to count anyone who tested positive but died after 28 days.
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  3168.  @Kraken54321  I don't know why they don't collect data on recovery rates. I wondered myself but often things are not done if it costs money and it's not considered essential. There have been films of hospitals filling up with Covid patients earlier in the epidemic. There are some on youtube if you look but journalists only put themselves at risk and get in the way of medics to be doing too much of that. The government usually pumps extra money into the service to deal with Winter flu but there have been occasions in the past when people were lying in corridors or waiting in ambulances outside the hospital because there weren't enough beds so they have been overwhelmed to the extent that patients were not always getting treatment when they needed it. In the time of Covid hospitals were reluctant to take patients from care homes for fear of being overwhelmed. My brother in law was in hospital with Covid earlier this year. My sister was not allowed to visit for fear of contracting Covid but then the hospital told her they would have to send him home to her as 'the government wanted the beds'. Hospitals can easily become overwhelmed in situations where you have a pandemic and seasonal flu at the same time. There isn't the spare capacity in terms of beds and intensive care beds because of the cuts over the years. To be fair though, health ssystems around the world have been in danger of being overwhelmed. I've seen videos of dead bodies in Mexico stored in lorries in the street because the morgues were full and hearses queueing up for the cemeteries. In the time of Spanish flu, in the USA in some places bodies were abandoned on the streets.
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  3169.  @Kraken54321  I don't think they are collected but you could guesstimate from these figures from countries that do collect them assuming a certain amount of accuracy and honesty https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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  3170.  Arran Robeson  How is recovery defined? when people are no longer infectious? When they leave hospital? A lot of people never go to hospital or don't experience symptoms or contact with medics after their test and some continue to have longer term health problems. It's a bit difficult to see how accurate figures can be produced but if you take the world figures for instance, they show that 75% of people have recovered. That percentage may be higher in reality because not all countries collect or publish the data. Most people recover from pneumonia but you wouldn't want to get it. I've had pneumonia and I'd never want to get it again. Same with Covid for many people. Most will recover but you wouldn't want to catch it if you could avoid it.
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  3171.  Arran Robeson  It's not a scam. My brother in law has had Covid and had a stroke during it and has had 2 more since 'recovering'. Just go back to comforting yourself with your conspiracy theories. I've got no time for them.
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  3172.  Arran Robeson  I've tried to explain as best I can. I think you now need to figure it out for yourself.
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  3173.  Arran Robeson  I do get it. I thought I explained already. I'll be more concise or more blunt so that you can understand. Tory governments don't give much of a damn about problems that affect other parts of the world but they do give a damn about things that affect people who might vote for them, and many Tory voters are of an age where Covid might kill them. The same is true more or less about other Western governments, except for Trump's as he only cares about himself.
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  3174.  Arran Robeson  Ha ha. Ever heard of Realpolitik?
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  3175.  @thechunkster7905  Not as bad.
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  3176. *retch. A wretch is something you can be though. The fresher the fish is, the less it should smell. Freshwater fish, such as trout, is not salty and can have quite a light delicate flavour.
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  3177.  @Hrochnick  Not grammar police, but free education service.
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  3178. I read that the killer's nickname among his police colleagues was 'the rapist'. I wonder how he got that nickname and whether they thought he was suitable as a policeman. He had also be caught 'flashing' before he committed this crime. There should be some process for challenge and review of police who have this kind of background. It was probably because he was able to use his police warrant card that she trusted him and got into his car.
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  3179. Either end of the political spectrum with anti-democratic tendencies and not inclined to compromise.
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  3180. Henry VIII Royal serial killer. There were religious burnings in Henry VIII's time also. Sir Thomas Moore oversaw them and also oversaw the torture to get confessions. Ironically Henry VIII later had Sir Thomas Moore executed for believing the things that the heretics were executed for not believing.
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  3181. Unfortunately the party doesn't like the idea of Johnny Come-Latelys swanning in and taking over, no matter how talented they may be. Also it would be an easy target for the Conservatives to say to voters, this man just goes wherever will serve his career best. It wouldn't be true but it would probably be believed
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  3182.  @veggie42  Anderson was just a useful tool for the Tories, while he lasted, to make them seem more connected with the 'working class'.
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  3183.  @fkitnow1488  Yes but that population either integrated or left by the time of the 17th century when people were 'settled' from Scotland and England whereby native owners were removed from the land they owned.
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  3184. Dawn Butler also listed other lies that Boris has told but the Sun did not show that in this clip.
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  3185. I believe there were 29 new deaths in Wales. I think that was on Sky news. I saw it on youtube.
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  3186.  @danceintherain1843  The news reports have said Trump and Melania have mild symptoms, but in some cases the condition can worsen after 2 weeks.
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  3187. You look like a brother of Richard Osman
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  3188. Because the government gave no extra money to the BBC to fund that decision. It's a bit like sharing a house with someone and suddenly saying to the other person, 'by the way, from now on you will pay my half of the bill too'.
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  3189. Business people should have been more aware than most people of what Brexit would involve. You only had to do a little bit of research to work it out, and with their businesses at stake you'd think they'd do that bit of research before voting for Brexit. Where they were not informed was on what type of Brexit the UK was going for. The government was not upfront for a long time that it would be going for a hard Brexit. The leave referendum brochures indicated that not much would change implying at the very least a soft Brexit. The government would now seem to want to take the UK towards the Singapore economic model but faced with the implications of that for workers, the UK population does not want to go there and the markets don't think it will work if it's to be fuelled by more borrowing without a credible plan for paying it back. There is no obvious route to success outside of the EU.
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  3190.  @Stew282  Certainly these are bad times internationally but Eu economies recovered after Brexit whereas the UK economy hardly has.
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  3191. There are also those that follow the science and those who follow conspiracy theories.
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  3192.  @fawlteemontee  I know but scarred would seem misleading when he said he was scared. I agree he will probably be physically and mentally scarred from this war before the end.
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  3193. No one has answers immediately without some consideration, except for fools.
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  3194.  @stevedoughty1941  I've a feeling the public are going to trust love rat and serial liar Bojo. Sad that people are so easily gulled by a jokey manner and a load of flannel. He will probably achieve Brexit but it won't do the average Britain any good. It will only benefit Bojo's rich and corporate supporters.
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  3195. The fact that she feels deprived because there was not going to be security or a title for her son, shows her naivety and her overblown expectations. All it means is that there would not be separate security for him paid for by the public purse. They would have to pay for it themselves. There is a limit to the number of Royals on the public payroll. Meghan and Harry themselves would have had paid security while Archie is growing up, as they were performing Royal duties. As for the title, he is a great grandchild of the Queen, there is a limit to the number of extended family members with titles. William and Kate's children only have them as they will be children of a King.
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  3196.  @andreasl4507  The owners didn't want relegation. They wanted it to be a gravy train that never ended. Eventually after establishing a bigger world audience, they would have called it the World Super League, moved it to the USA, started changing the rules, like dropping the offside rule and maybe even got round to match fixing, or, when the value of the clubs doubled, they would have got out and left it to other businessmen who cared even less about football. Football detached from its true fans and origins, just run like a circus, as nothing more than just another money making enterprise.
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  3197.  @Mr.Ditkovich.  Do you not see the way this would be heading in future? After they got a bigger world audience they would have called it a World Super League, moved its base to the USA, dropped the offside rule to make it 'more exciting' for gamblers and fans, and easier to play for less skilled players. It would not be sport any more, but 'sport entertainment', just another circus seen as no more than any other means of making money. These people don't really care about football. If you've any pride in your team, don't fall for it.
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  3198. The Taliban said that foreigners will still be able to travel out after the deadline on normal flights, so the Brits should be able to get out but it likely that it's relevant Afghans who won't be able to get out after the deadline.
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  3199. Or you can always do a quick exit rather than a slow undignified decline with asset stripping as a part of that.
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  3200.  @biggusdickkus2956  I think they identify with them because of the patriotic ballyhoo, personal aspiration to 'get on' in life and, attitudes to immigrants. It's the party for the 'not interested in politics' and the 'not thinking or knowing very much'.
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  3201. I think that's a Tory take on it. Starmer wants to take action against the smuggling gangs to prevent illegal boat crossings but as there are currently no legal routes for immigrants he will create some because we do need some immigration, and need to to distinguish genuine asylum seekers from economic migrants. He will ensure faster processing to remove unauthorised immigrants who are not genuine asylum seekers and perhaps asylum seekers who should seek asylum where they first were. It should result in lower numbers coming to the UK compared to the Tory handling of the issue at the moment which is totally ineffective and costly. Millions to Rwanda for what?
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  3202. Wasn't Rousseau the one who had lots of illegitimate children and sent them all to orphanages?
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  3203. I't's anti Semitic not anti Semetic by the way. (You pronounce it as if it's Semetic). You can't criticise the Israelis. You can't criticise the Saudis. You can't criticise the Russians or the Chinese and you get the impression that elements in the US would love to shut down debate there as well. However, Israel manages to shut down criticism outside of its country too.
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  3204. @Leroy JenkinsI'm not in denial. Unlike you I find the facts and don't read propaganda. The trade agreement is no more in the UKs favour than if we had stayed in the EU. It's less so. The EU has such trade agreements with other countries too. It's normal, not a victory for the UK. It avoids us paying trade tariffs but we still have to pay customs charges and deal with much more expensive bureaucracy. In any case the trade agreement is now being jeopardised by Boris;s unwillingness to stick to the withdrawal agreement that he signed. The EU is preparing to take the UK to court.
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  3205. @Leroy Jenkins It's not true that Frost ran rings around Barnier. We didn't get anything more than third countries normally do when reaching agreements with the eu. I don't know what you think it is we want but the UK economy has suffered badly from being out of the eu. There is more bureaucracy, customs charges and admin costs, plus the agreement with France to take back illegal immigrants is no longer in place causing headaches for the Home Office.
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  3206.  @jonwyatt3694  One who is running for President again and has been a President and therefore his doings and political rallies are of public interest.
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  3207. Shakespeare is not pleased with you.
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  3208. @Seymour Butts No. I know much more than you about how the world works, I'm sure.
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  3209. @Seymour Butts Stay blissful in your ignorance then.
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  3210.  @Dazwa  Well, I find people complaining that the BBC is biased against Jeremy Corbyn and I find Liam Fox complaining about the BBC too. Since they are on different sides of the political spectrum, I thin that means the BBC is somewhere in the centre as I said before in one comment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMx78U0V1Cc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7a6IRRDgvg
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  3211. @Seymour Butts Thank you.
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  3212.  @yojimbo843  If there was anyone who should respect the American office, it should be Trump but he has no respect for it at all and treats it as his personal fiefdom where he can break the rules and ignore the constitution as he pleases. Just showing Trump on TV is disrespectful to the 'American office' as he makes a mockery of it himself. As you can see I'm not a Trump supporter, but I do believe his asinine views should be heard without any censorship, so I think I am fair in that.
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  3213.  @mohammedjaffer8522  I fear he will contract the virus as he doesn't understand how it works and how to protect himself, it seems. He could at least listen to advice from health experts.
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  3214. She's not 'the longest reigning monarch the world has seen' (Piers Morgan). Louis XIV's reign was longer.
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  3215. @dogkicker100 Hardly. Would you change places with immigrants for their 'heavenly' conditions and experiences?
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  3216. No. These are people who have worked with British forces and their credentials have all been checked. Have you not been watching the news?
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  3217. Showing your lack of knowledge there. The Gulf War was while the Tories were in power. The Iraq war was under Blair but apart from that terrible decision there were some good policies under him. Peace in N Ireland under The Good Friday Agreement 1998, devolved governments for for Scotland and Wales, high investment in education and health with the highest ever satisfaction survey results for the NHS. You quote only one Labour government, the Blair one, but the post war Labour government created the NHS and built lots of housing.
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  3218. I once saw a youtube video of Dorries speaking with a friend and in like company their views and personalities came across as very nasty and self serving indeed.
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  3219.  @samdunn717  Does that include practical experience? I accept what you say, I was just referring to the purely academic side, not the practical experience side, and of course things may have changed in recent years. I'd better go and amend my comment now.
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  3220.  @ArrowValley  Missing CCCP?
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  3221. @Ståle Skjegget That's a generalisation. I'd say that Trump is an arch manipulator and will take support from anyone for any reason.
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  3222. But getting lashes for an 'offence' which is not an offence in the rest of the world is harsher. (e.g. sex outside of marriage)
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  3223. Without the media you would never find out what is happening. It would all be covered up.
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  3224.  @phughes4224  If.............. but I was addressing the specific point about the letter that has been made on this thread.
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  3225.  @gordonmorris1679  I hold Jacob Rees-Mogg in contempt and so do everyone that I know.
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  3226. What exactly are you voting for? Farage is good at criticism (the easy bit) but doesn't say what he'd do about it. Have you not noticed that? Don't be fooled. Farage is in the game for his own benefit.
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  3227.  @malaksalemm  It was the female side of his family, not the Tudor (male side) that gave Henry Tudor a claim to the throne. Henry VI's mother was Katherine or Catherine of Valois, not Isabella.
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  3228.  @alexander9703  I shall check this out further. The history books all refer to Henry VII as being on the Lancastrian side. Do you mean supporters of Elizabeth of York rather than Elizabeth Woodville? Elizabeth Woodville was not a Yorkist by birth but only by marriage and in any case, as a woman she had no claim to the throne herself.
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  3229.  @alexander9703  As I understand it, Henry VII's mother, Margaret Beaufort, was a descendant of John of Gaunt. Edward III named John of Gaunt his second heir after Richard II. Richard II had no children when he was deposed by Henry Bolingbroke (Henry IV, Lancastrian line), Edward of York was named 3rd heir by Edward III. So it's understandable since Henry VII's line was from the second heir, that he would join the Lancastrians against the descendants of the 3rd named heir, a Yorkist. Henry VII's claim did come through a woman, his mother, and that may not have been acceptable at the time.
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  3230.  @WildFish56x  Oh Slovakia's vey random, I hear.
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  3231.  @laurienicosia3870  It wasn't made by Trump, but Trump is a leader who should be leading the US out of this, not constantly whining and being useless. Conspiracy theories are always useful for avoiding the truth - he's useless as a leader. Other countries have been hit by the virus too but some of their leaders have taken the right action and are now ready to start getting back to normal.
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  3232. I think Dickens was a form of the name Richard, often shortened to Dick.
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  3233. *beliefs. Well that's one thing in his favour - maybe the only thing.
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  3234. I had the vaccine and lived. They say that the Astra Zeneca vaccine, which is the main one the UK is using, 100% prevents hospitalisation with Covid, but I'm not sure if that's only after the second dose.
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  3235. It was pulled by Boris Johnson himself, because Parliament wanted more than 3 days to read and consider it.
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  3236. Nah. Not enough hate for Goebbels liking.
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  3237.  @joebidenisapedophile  You're obviously a big fan of Trump. I discovered the cages were put there under the Obama regime but Trump made massive use of them. He could have done better than Obama, not worse, if he's such a hero. Trump's ruling on Jerusalem made it more difficult for the 2 state solution to the Palestine'Israeli conflict to come about and he is a such a one sided supporter of Israel that Israel takes this as carte blanche to carry on building illegally in occupied territory. With Iran, his refusal to honour the agreement is actually an incentive for them to build nuclear weapons as he's left them with nowhere to go. Anyway I'm wasting my time debating with such a convinced Trump fan so that's enough from me.
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  3238.  @Woke_Invaders  Calling out misogyny is not woke.
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  3239.  @captainpinky8307  *perceptive. Perspective means something else.
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  3240.  @inspectorjavert5563  Looks like the police are the thugs here. They tried to taser him when he was doing nothing but standing still.
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  3241. Claire Foy is famous now having played the Queen in "The Crown". I don't see the cringe factor at all but everything is in the eye of the beholder I guess.
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  3242.  @Johnny-sj9sj  I'm only repeating what Rod Liddle said. Not my fault if you don't find him amusing.
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  3243.  @paulgibbons2320  I seem to have heard a lot of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson on the BBC. They've not been left out. If you want even more of their views, virtually the whole of the press, with one or two exceptions is pro Tory. I think what undermines their presentation is when the BBC presents some facts. Anyway how can anyone represent Boris' views. He flip flops so much to switch to whatever opinion will progress his career most.
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  3244. I'm sure he could tell you it's 'without any tears'
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  3245.  @swampfox8461  Well I don't live in the USA but I'll give you my opinion since you asked. Undoing Roe v Wade seems awful. Are there going to be extra funds put into medical care for severely disabled children who need round the clock care and lead painful lives? Are there going to be extra orphanages for abandoned children? What about the ones that suffer from neglect and end up as criminals (extra prison places?) and what about the pregnancies that are dangerous to health and will kill mothers. What about the level of rape in society? Are women victims meant to bear the consequences of that for all their lives. I'm guessing you are not a woman. Are you also pro life when it comes to capital punishment? High inflation and costs of living are happening all around the world now. Trump would not have been able to avoid that and most of the developed world has border problems as the gap between rich and poor countries gets wider, as wars, dictatorship, and low life expectancy dominate so many countries. Also where women don't have access to abortion, populations will expand even more creating more border issues.
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  3246. All very well, but the Tories allow vital services to go into foreign hands and then wonder at the consequences. These owners have no stake in the national interest.
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  3247.  @georgewright9914  One definition of politics is that it's about 'who gets what' so it's naturally linked with finance. Labour had to bail out the banks in 2008 as there was a world financial crisis caused by too light regulation of the banking sector, which allowed them to get embroiled in the sub prime mortgage investment bubble to the extent that people's savings would have been lost if the banks had collapsed, and a collapse of confidence in the world's finance systems would have caused whole economies to fail. Brown spent time persuading the EU and US to similarly support the banking sector, and saved the world capitalist system. How's that for a socialist?
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  3248. The funding for these was cut by the Tory governments during the period of austerity from 2010.
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  3249. Unfortunately Mariupol is a sitting duck with no escape, and has been for a while.
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  3250. Shakespeare was never about historical accuracy, if there was better drama to be had by deviating from it.
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  3251.  @H3nry488  Well Shakespeare 'messed up' history when it suited him, for dramatic purposes, and in his time men played the parts of women. If you want accurate history, watch a documentary or read a history book. Shakespeare is not the best source. Did people protest as much when Laurence Olivier blacked up to play Othello? Do people insist that Shylock should always be played by a Jew or that Romeo and Juliet should always be played by Italians? By the way, the actor who plays King Henry VI in this video is too handsome for the part but I'm not complaining.
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  3252.  @H3nry488  Margaret of Anjou was French and the English very much distrusted her as a foreigner with her foreign ways. The way she saw and handled the politics at the time was very much the way it would have been done in France i.e.remove any perceived rivalries or threats whether genuine or imagined. Being played by a black actress is a metaphor for that sense of difference and not belonging that was felt at the time. Her mocking of the Gloucesters is part of her plan to remove them as a power base in the court. She succeeds in this in later scenes.
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  3253.  @H3nry488  No. It wasn't about racism exactly. As I said, that was perhaps a metaphor. Remember the English monarchy at that time was of French descent, but the France and England were enemies at that time as they had been warring over territory in France. Henry V had been very successful in his wars against France (remember his victory at Agincourt?) but when his son Henry VI got betrothed to Margaret of Anjou, Henry VI gave all the land the English had conquered in France back to France (except for Calais I think) as part of the betrothal agreement. He got nothing in return for his 'gift' except Margaret of Anjou herself. The English really resented that and resented her for it, having spilt so much English blood in gaining those lands.
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  3254. In the video I saw, he was shot at with a gun first.
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  3255.  Mr Jingles  They had a great costed plan in their pre-election Manifesto? Did you not read it? Now that they are not in power they can't plan because they don't have control of government.
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  3256.  @nothereandthereanywhere  You can only fire and rehire workers on short term contracts, where contract periods are so short that workers don't qualify for any employment rights. Many of these workers have worked for P&O for years. You can't do fire and rehire with those.
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  3257.  @Mark_Bickerton  Trump didn't find it easy. He kept it all for himself.
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  3258.  @samsara-summermooncomehome5881  Trump would have made more money if he'd put his entire inheritance in a low interest cash account. He's useless as a business man. I don't know how he managed to convince people otherwise, by PR and trumpery it seems. (He's appropriately named that man). Anyway I've done nothing to America, not being an American voter. Americans have decided for themselves.
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  3259. Corrupt, corrupt corrupt.
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  3260. His biggest achievement was getting into office.
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  3261. Eh? What are you on about.
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  3262. Why aren't you shouting about the Bill going through Parliament to allow privatisation of the NHS, to not allow challenge of lack of services in local areas and to keep the contracting process secret? While everyone is distracted with other news the Tories do devious undemocratic things while no ones watching.
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  3263. When Chris Philp said there was a safety net clause preventing people being sent to a country where they are in danger of risk to life I wondered how does that square with the Tories legal declaration that Rwanda is a safe country to deport people to? I don't believe that people from Congo would not be sent to Rwanda.
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  3264.  @stevenmacdonald9619  Don't you trust a democratic justice system? If they weren't illegally murdering folk, they'd nothing to fear.
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  3265.  @highpath4776  The only checks introduced are those that 3rd party countries, outside of the EU, are obligated to. Apart from any trade deals that have been negotiated and agreed, the rules that apply are those of the withdrawal agreement the UK signed up to, or WTO rules.
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  3266. Versailles and Poldark
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  3267. More so than 'classics' which the Eton mob tend to study at Oxford?
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  3268. What's that got to do with Brexit?
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  3269. He finds it hard to deal with the idea of values or principles. Many journalists don't have those
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  3270. It was the USA that started it as I recall after 9/11, and after The Taliban refused to close down Al Qaeda bases in Afghanistan. Blair went along with the USA.
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  3271. @Stalin I hardly think Blair was a lefty - more like Tory 'lite'. He was an admirer of Margaret Thatcher and he was the one who removed clause 4 from the Labour Party's constitution. That was the clause that said they were a socialist party. As for Christopher Hitchens, he was a maverick thinker. He did not really fit the left wing/right wing spectrum and he was not a politician - not elected by anybody. None of the wars of the time were 'left wing'. The Americans led on those and the purpose was anti-terrorism or a grab for oil. Blair seemed to believe they were wars against oppression or 'weapons of mass destruction' .
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  3272.  @MrFlibbleable  Not for 'anything' - and no one's absolving Blair and Blair is not 'left'.
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  3273. Don't be silly. You can have all of those things triggered by Covid except for type I diabetes and accidents.
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  3274. The government should have thought this through and planned for it. If people fear they may have to spend 14 days indoors if they get symptoms, they are going to be thinking they need 14 days worth of food in their houses.
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  3275.  Hello There  But they fear they might get symptoms I suppose. and want to be prepared in case they do. I'm not excusing it but there is a sort of logic to it.
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  3276.  Libertarian Infidel  I don't think it's illegal to fire him. It's a difficult process, and could be rather drawn out, with evidence required, but it's not illegal. I think the contrary about why he resigned. It was a matter or principle for him otherwise he could have taken the pay-off with a gagging clause included. I think he realised he couldn't work with her as she wouldn't work with him. He said he tried to talk to her after all this happened but she just ignored him. You can't build a working relationship on that. Also he was being briefed against and that also made working life impossible as he was undermined and probably knew he wouldn't have much longer in the job. I'm not saying he wasn't inept. There were some problems in that Department for which he was accountable. I'm just talking about the fact that he did care and took the more principled way out, to protect staff and standards in government at a cost to himself.
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  3277. They killed a family, including 7 children, whose father had worked for a Western charity.
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  3278. How does he think growth happens without a rise in consumption? Is he talking about increased exports? If so he's not making that clear and Brexit bureaucracy will get in the way of that, though the collapsing pound will make things cheaper for export. All this guy does is parrot Tory Central Office PR. It's clear he hasn't got a clue how it's supposed to work and can't explain beyond the buzz words..
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  3279. @Ashton Almond * propaganda
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  3280. * It's narcissistic not narcistic. After Narcissus not Narcis.
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  3281.  @fatherson5907  You currently have your wish. How's that going?
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  3282. That was when Thatcher had the UK in the EU. Now the UK is out of the EU we have no leverage.
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  3283. No, Boris was the worst Mayor.
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  3284. I've a suggestion for all those who don't believe in the virus Why not test your theory by volunteering in a care home?
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  3285.  @struck2soon  What level of incompetence? You don't seem to know how politics works. Once voted in they are there for 5 years unless they lose their majority and that is so big it's unlikely to happpen.
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  3286. I believe they can confiscate the proceeds of crime.
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  3287. The figures are also probably understated since some countries count the deaths better than others and are more honest about the death numbers than others.
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  3288.  @cupguin  I understand that but don't you know that this guy was betting that he'd lose, so the risk is that he'd do his best to lose. Not the desired position for a chosen Labour Party candidate.
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  3289. @Deartháir agus mairtíreach Then you are sadly lacking in judgement and common sense. Commiserations.
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  3290. Not since the Brexit Referendum perhaps?
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  3291. The Tories don't even need to do it in trade talks. They can have a secret deal on the side. They are hardly going to state their aims openly in government records. People don't always understand what privatisation consists of. They assume a wholesale sell off of the NHS. What is happening already is a gradual sell off of health services. 26% of the health budget already goes to private firms. A lot of this is concealed by the fact that the money is first passed through the middlemen of voluntary organisations and local authorities who pass it straight on to private companies. Because the former are involved the government counts it as funding public services. More of this is likely to happen if we hard Brexit and want a deal with the USA. Also US drug firms will want to charge the NHS more for drugs. The document is coded and exploratory. A key thing is it's not putting cards on the table and saying no to more sell off of health services and no to increasing the access of American health companies and drug companies.
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  3292. No he's deceased.
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  3293.  @fasteddiejs  The excess death figures suggest that Covid cases are actually under counted and no one was counted, until recently, if they didn't get to hospital because only hospital patients were tested.
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  3294. How do you reckon that? No one could be thicker or more ignorant than the last lot. At least this government will listen to experts.
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  3295. @SteveFromManchester-di4lf Conspiracy theorists love their conspiracies.
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  3296. Or it's edited. Maybe she washed her hands before and after jabbing him. That's all that's needed.
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  3297. Mortgages are currently in lockdown.
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  3298.  @davidclark1545  If pardoned would they get the same compensation? I don't think they would want a 'guilty' tag in their past record.
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  3299. Noah sensoff-smell
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  3300. So why are the Tories so scared of them, and they are, because Starmer is a lawyer and is making Boris look like the fool he is. The opposition would be stronger though if the electorate hadn't voted to give Boris a massive majority.
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  3301. Neil just doesn't want competition for his populist channel.
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  3302. Death from wilfull ignorance. How many people did he persuade not to get the vaccine and what were the consequences for them, I wonder?
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  3303. American cops seem terrified. They fear and shoot for the least little reason.
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  3304. I read a report from a German born guy who lived in his youth in Essex and frequently visited London. Later he went back to Germany for many years and more recently came to London for a visit and noticed what great improvements there had been.
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  3305.  @Epitaff  My comment was not aimed at Beem B. It was in agreement with him.
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  3306. retracted (taken back) redacted (not invalidated but blacked out so you can't read it).
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  3307. It has no resemblance to history does it?
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  3308.  @bushwhackeddos.2703  The English are not a distinct ethnic group. Not many would have DNA that is from a single ethnic group since the DNA of Britons, Romans, Scandinavians, Normans, Irish, Welsh, Scots, and East Europeans among others has been mixed for many generations. English is defined as a nationality (British overall) rather than an ethnicity. Of course in many documents there is a choice of ethnic tick boxes for people to identify with mainly to ensure against discrimination in policy making.
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  3309. Role not roll.
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  3310. They need to do their jobs properly.
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  3311. Gorbachev seems so human and reasonable compared to Putin.
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  3312. Things have been getting worse and worse. Can it get worse still? History tells us that under this government it can and will, and since Brexit knocked the economy for six.
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  3313.  @jaunt3603  Who is getting all this money the bank is printing? It doesn't seem to be the people on below inflation wage increases or am I missing something? Isn't the bank printing money to fill the hole left by the government's mismanagement of the economy? As the national debt rises so does the interest payable on it.
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  3314. She's toning it down to get elected. As soon as she's elected it will be toned up again - reverse ferret.
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  3315. We're self isolating so we don't have to face the media on a daily basis. (only joking). They seem to be spreading it around.
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  3316. The 2 are related. Hospitals will get overloaded if the spread is not slowed down.
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  3317. *sourced. You're not going to pour ketchup on it. (The BBC has an educational remit which other channels don't. Clearly it's needed)
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  3318. There are UK companies making them but they say they can't get the British government interested in buying them. I suspect the government went for the cheapest they could get in this bulk deal from Turkey, but as the saying goes, you get what you pay for. Pay cheap prices, get cheap shoddy goods. It's a wonder they didn't see and check samples before they ordered.
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  3319. He'll fight to the last Russian it seems.
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  3320.  @doyoueventhink6191  Who are blatantly incompetent? If you mean the Tories, I agree with you.
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  3321. Best leader.
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  3322.  @natyak5641  No it's the other way around. Though cockneys may drop the letter h at the beginning of a word and sometimes add one which is not there, the name of the letter itself is 'aitch' and not 'haitch'.
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  3323. The worse this gets the less real it seems but that's probably just a mental defence mechanism kicking in for me. For those of us who weren't involved in WW2, it's an unimaginable shock to the system. I must return to a book of my schooldays, Albert Camus' 'The Plague' which was about a city in quarantine because of the plague and the psychological effects on the population.
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  3324. That is the subject of the discussion.
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  3325. It's a good thing they played Cuba before Trump came to power. He would never have issued the permits for the equipment to be imported from Miami. Brexit will certainly put up more barriers for UK musicians who want to tour Europe.
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  3326. The Pope; 'I speak on behalf of God, submit and become a Christian'. Khan. 'No God wants me to rule you. You submit to me or else'.
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  3327.  a 2345193  The point is that tax is affordable. You pay it as a proportion of income over your lifetime. There's never a huge bill to face when you are sick.
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  3328. It may call itself a meritocracy but wealthier families who send their kids to top private schools and Oxford Uni are doing so in order that they can network with the wealthy and powerful and so step into top jobs. You can see many examples of this in the last Conservative government and in governments historically. Lots of old Etonians in power even when incompetent and ignorant.
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  3329. Why would that be, because they are not reflecting your own views?
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  3330. missmysterymagic.This scene shows some power play between the Queen and the Gloucesters. The Queen is stronger than the King (Henry VI was a notably pious but weak king who suffered from periodic mental illness). The Duke of Gloucester is the Lord Protector. Basically he was regent from the time Henry was a baby because Henry was a baby when his father died and he inherited the throne. Certain factions including the Queen want to be rid of the Gloucesters because Henry is now an adult, but the Duke of Gloucester is still exerting power over him. This scene shows the beginning of the movement to oust the Gloucesters from power (which happens afterwards).
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  3331. There isn't much of a centre in Latin American countries like Bolivia. There is an elite and the rest who are oppressed and feel powerless. At least this socialism is democratic socialism. A friend of mine spent a year in Bolivia some years ago, as part of a study course. He was put up by families who had servants who slept by the door, like dogs, in order to raise the alarm if there were any burglary attempts. He was disgusted, but the wealthy families thought this was quite normal.
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  3332. @Trekky And proud Antibiotics only treat bacterial infections. Covid 19 is a virus. There's no cure. The only treatment with equipment to assist breathing in the hope that the patient's own immune system will have time to fight off the virus. That equipment is not usually available in care homes and ventilators require monitoring by medics. The only effective action to stop the spread of viruses (apart from distancing, isolation etc) is to develop a vaccine.
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  3333. It's you who doesn't remember that the Leave Campaign, in the run up to the Referendum were campaigning to leave with a deal so you can't say people then were voting to leave without a deal.
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  3334. I just wonder if 10 intensive care beds will be enough.
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  3335.  Russian Métropolitan  You might want to worry about the Russian government looting Russia. Russia is governed by kleptomaniacs.
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  3336. It means being known for something bad. Check the dictionary.
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  3337. How do you know whether he gives to charity or not? I bet he's not the boasting type. Footballers are highly paid if they are good but their careers are not that long. There are not many 40 year old footballers so they have to provide for their futures also for when their income drops off.
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  3338.  @Gaius__  I'm not a legal expert so I'm not going to try and figure that, out but I read that it was thought to be too difficult to get agreement for a constitution after WW2. The difficulty was 'resolved' by the the can being kicked down the road.
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  3339. It's the only game in town. Democracy is the worst political system, except for all the others, as someone once said.
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  3340. Until the second doses have been given.
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  3341. Says every sore loser without a shred of evidence.
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  3342. It keeps them detached from reality.
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  3343. The first time I moved to Liverpool as a student in the 1970s I was shocked to see a boy walking up a main street in the city with rags wrapped around his feet instead of shoes. I'd never seen such a thing in England before. They have done a lot of work to improve the city in recent years. However they had previously put cheap and boxy buildings right in the centre in squares that had fine heritage architecture. There had been no attempt to preserve the look of the place.
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  3344. Why would they tell lies when it looks bad for them?
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  3345.  @shimmy7169  Or let it catch Covid and quarantine it until it's better.
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  3346. @bad santa The jobs are open to British born citizens, but it seems British born citizens aren't applying in sufficient numbers. Perhaps there are not enough British citizens. The economy expanded when we had all that manpower from the EU. Now that we don't have it, certain economic sectors are likely to contract again.
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  3347.  @stequality  Not true. They don't want to work for peanuts that they can't afford to live on if they can get better paid work and they will try for the better jobs first. Even migrants would do better jobs if they could. My daughter once worked as a waitress and she was the only English person working in that restaurant which was part of a chain. The other staff said to her 'why are you working here? If we could speak English as well as you we would get better jobs'. Also some manual jobs take a certain amount of physical stamina which not everyone has. P.S. Most migrants are keen for their children to be well educated so they can get better jobs than their parents.
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  3348. Except for those that save your life.
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  3349.  @jazzyjane611  Doctors are not government controlled. GPs are self-employed business people though they do have contracts to provide NHS services.
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  3350. In a free world hard work seems to lead to a wage that's not enough to live on and no prospects with no good work life balance. We work for the privilege of making others rich while our own families are short changed.
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  3351. Surely not just to motivate Russians. He has been recruiting mercenaries from Muslim middle eastern countries too. He would like others to do his dirty work and to become cannon fodder for him.
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  3352.  @horseplop9  Whoosh!
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  3353. In what way is he a traitor?
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  3354. She smiled all the way through her speech to the City of London (the financial sector).
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  3355. No because those are the people they truly represent. It always amazes me the people that vote Tory and don't know whose interests they represent. They just swallow the spin they come out with. The Tories liked most of Boris's policies except his failure to cut tax enough and to realise any benefits from Brexit. They will vote for a leader that's steadier in character but pretty similar in aims. Expect cuts in taxes and savage cuts in public services. The candidates will all be trying to outdo each other in how much they will cut public services though they will refer to it as 'rolling back the state'. They will deregulate to allow drops in standards of food quality and safety in all areas. They will hold back wages. The economy won't improve much. Inflation is likely to get worse and people's standards of living will continue to worsen. That's my prediction.
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  3356. But won't this fine tuning just keep the whole thing going rather than eliminating it?
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  3357. The Klan members in their photos look as degenerate as the Nazis in theirs.
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  3358. Doing no preparation when he had the chance, then desperate for a quick fix when in truth there is none.
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  3359. They believe people don't remember any message that is more than 3 words long and a simple idea. They certainly succeeded with 'Take Back Control' and 'Get Brexit Done' so they've no reason to believe carrying on in the same way won't be as successful.
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  3360. Some balance in discussion?
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  3361. The story of Kunta Kinte was the story of a black man's experience of slavery which was particular to black men though the Irish also suffered slavery so there could have been a story about them. Shakespeare's stories are drama which often has universal application, so you get Japanese and Russian versions of his plays for instance. In this play, Margaret is a "foreigner" and this is just one interpretation. Historical accuracy was less important to Shakespeare than good drama so he often changed historical facts to make better drama. I don't think he would have objected to this.
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  3362. *didn't understand. I did understand your point, I just disagreed with it. All drama is about a "suspension of disbelief" . I think you'd enjoy the play if you watched it through and the unusual casting would bother you less. Shakespeare wanted people to enjoy his plays.
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  3363. I should worry more about the English language declining among the indigenous population if I were you. It should be "these two words". I also think you mean "look up" the two words since merely writing them would not mean anything. I did look them up and I think it's not right to foist such concerns onto a fictional play, or the casting of such. We were once all one race as our origins can all be traced back to Africa. Distinct races developed as a result of migration to different parts of the world with different conditions and climates, so race itself is just a matter of accident and it's not worth getting worked up about. Change has always happened and always will.
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  3364. PsyduckWaterflower. There were certainly white slaves - the Irish for instance so you could make slavery stories about that. I think where race or racial discrimination is the main part of the story then the race of the person is important in the casting, but if the story is not about the race of the person or racial discrimination then there's more options for casting in a drama.
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  3365.  Matt T  Do some research before you comment. Australia and New Zealand reps were to visit the UK for trade talks. They've cancelled those now over security concerns concerning Boris's Huawei decision. Talks with the US have stalled over Huawei and also because the US's priority is a deal with the EU. Canada is in no hurry to negotiate a trade deal with the UK and these deals can take years. So much for Boris stating that there would be quick deals and countries would be queuing up to make them with us.
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  3366. That's cancel culture.
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  3367. Some GPs have been saying they could not get care home patients into hospital. The hospitals would not accept them.
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  3368.  @1chish  Cox gave the wrong advice on more than one occasion. I followed it at the time but I've forgotten the detail now. I did listen to the full judgement of the Supreme Court. Their role is to interpret the law and that's what they did. They didn't make one up. The judgement was evidence based and Boris made the mistake of giving his supposed reasonable (lawful) reason for proroguing Parliament and then not submitting any evidence to back that up, in spite of the Supreme Court's request for evidence. He shot himself in the foot either through incompetence or more likely because the evidence didn't exist. As for Andrea Leadsom, we have different opinions, that's all
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  3369. Still a record for Lord Binface and not one that he would sniff at.
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  3370. Jewel Heart Well here's some heartening news for you. Enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24du25osgRY
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  3371.  @ceemmm3526  Both are wrongs and both are probably illegally done. There's no justification for ignoring a wrong because another wrong is worse.
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  3372. I suspect that there will be a lot of Trump supporters getting evicted.
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  3373. Charles always looks awkward when asked to play the formal royal role. Camilla smiling throughout didn't seem appropriate. Was she amused? Was she triumphant? It would have been more dignified to have kept a straight face.
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  3374. Don't load your prejudices onto an unconnected video. It sounds like obsession. How many women are drug dealers that go round assassinating rival drug dealers for money. There aren't comparitive cases.
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  3375. It's a bit sad that Roger spoke about Pete as if he was a close friend but Pete said 'it feels like work', 'we're co-workers' we don't spend time together on the road' (outside of the performance?).
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  3376. Imagine if people stopped classifying other people that they disagreed with as 'far left' or 'far right' just to try and discredit them without engaging brains.
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  3377. Even Fox News has its limits, it seems, when it comes to Trump's nonsense.
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  3378.  @jakerobbo4446  Trump has already lost.
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  3379. What does that matter?
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  3380. It's because our laws and their laws and our trade practices and their trade practices have been intertwined for 40 years. That's a lot to disentangle in a short space of time. It's the practical issues that are difficult too. It's not just a matter of saying goodbye, because there are shared resources and trade consequences. Also new barriers apply which means we have to spend on setting up new customs and immigration control arrangements and there is more bureaucracy and paperwork for exporting businesses. Not only that but we lose economies of scale and we lose all the international trade agreements that we were part of as a member of the EU, and all the subsidies from the EU. When you add that lot up it results in more spending not less than on EU membership.
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  3381. Javid's certainly got no strategy for UK trade, nor has Boris. He's told his Ministers to come up with plans or face the sack . I look forward to the outcome.
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  3382. Trump has entertainment value like a quack salesman who knows how to work a crowd.
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  3383. Well my reaction is that as a public representative taking taxpayer's money, he's meant to be accountable and able to answer questions and regard questions as normal. If he can't cope with that maybe he's in the wrong job or has something to hide. How would you react if a colleague at work swore about you and suggested there was 'something wrong with you' when you were just doing your job.
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  3384. Because you'll get on much better in life without an education?
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  3385.  @linkinparkrulz2275  The term 'cultural Marxism' covers things that Marx never envisaged in the 19th century in his books.
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  3386. @Brandon Neifert It's mostly an analysis of how capitalism works. It's not a cancer. Are people not supposed to think or analyse if the results are uncomfortable in questioning the status quo? Petersen doesn't seem to me to question the status quo except to come to the conclusion that the status quo can't be changed.
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  3387. Go far far far away nads
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  3388. All he needs to do is choose a good deputy.
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  3389. David Sun. How do you know that? You sound a bit arrogant to say that. Why are you watching it then?
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  3390.  @AthelstanEngland  Because that's not the way vaccines work. Do you not know that vaccines are preventatives not cures? Once you already have the disease it's too late to have a vaccine.
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  3391. *foot the bill
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  3392.  @rawmilkmike  None but that's not the right question. There were plenty of people dying before their time who otherwise would have lived.
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  3393. Overflowed with love.
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  3394.  @tcr333  Boris can't sack him as Boris is guilty of the same behaviour. Boris has already decided not to sack him.
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  3395. Remember the contaminated blood scandal? Have those people been compensated yet? It was all dragged out like the Post Office scandal that allowed many people to die before being ever compensated. There are other such scandals in living memory. Hopefully this one will send enough of a shockwave to those in power to deter future ones and address past ones.
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  3396. Go back to baseball.
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  3397. Why would you delay? So you don't blow up the economy perhaps. You can't buck the market as they say. It doesn't like unfunded spending. Who doesn't like growth? She's mad.
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  3398.  @richvid9814  This argues for bigger samples or more evidence. Much evidence of side effects is not available because drug companies are not transparent about it.
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  3399. Don't feel sorry for Ulster Unionism. They've blackmailed everyone for centuries.
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  3400. Water is a natural monopoly! Nationalisation is the right thing to do.
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  3401. If the Welsh want to call it by a Welsh name that's up to them. Why should anyone else get their knickers in a twist about it?
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  3402.  @Laura-op6ix  They have their own cultures if that's what you mean.
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  3403.  @Laura-op6ix  Yes, many of them trained at RADA.
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  3404.  @JP-lk2qs  Freedom at other people's expense.
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  3405.  @snowyowel7961  What they didn't really publicise, and what wasn't clear unless you read the Manifesto was that it was a programme for more than one Parliament. They weren't expecting to do it all over 5 years but would have carried on with it if elected for a second term. They would have done some of it in 5 years anyway.
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  3406.  @snowyowel7961  He wasn't intending to retire but so what, any new leader would be honour bound to implement the Manifesto promises if they won an election on the strength of them.
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  3407.  @freelanceart1019  Boris a communist? What planet are you on?
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  3408. Perhaps the only time people will feel safer if they live in a remote community with no public transport.
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  3409. As if Boris and his cronies are better than a mafia?
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  3410. Liam from One Direction
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  3411.  Sonny Burnett  I'm not superstitious and I don't worship science, but here's the thing about science. Scientific findings have to be provable before they are accepted knowledge, which means anyone can experiment and get the same results. Scripture has to be accepted on the basis of faith not proof. So, if you got Covid, would you be relying solely on prayer to get better or would you also accept medical help, which is based on science?
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  3412.  Sonny Burnett  No I'm denying your wacky ideas for which there is no evidence and you have produced no evidence in support of them.
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  3413.  @miapdx503  Planned by whom for what purpose, to whose benefit? You believe what some anonymous person put on some stones? America is full of people with bonkers notions and conspiracy theories. I wouldn't rely on those sort of ideas. The reason for the problems experienced in the world today is the way the capitalist system works (it can only survive with growth but growth uses world resources which are finite, it fails to clear up the mess it causes unless forced to by regulation, and it is subject to booms and busts which affect working men and women most -also it works in the interests of shareholders at the expense of fairness for employees) and the overpopulation of the planet because in historical terms modern man has been so successful in protecting himself against most natural disasters (so far), which is a good thing, but we need to figure out a way of moderating population growth - giving more power to women over their reproduction would be one way as in many countries of the world women have little power and are treated as if owned by men.
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  3414. @Joe Box Have you read the Labour Manifesto? Thought not. If you don't take the opposition seriously and vote for change you're lost because there's no hope otherwise.
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  3415. Yes if the public is writing to him and he is taking notice.
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  3416.  Tomakak  You 'doubt' but you don't know because you haven't bothered to find out. Starmer did not agree with Corbyn on everything and has different views.
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  3417. Because the effects of vaccines against this virus wear off after about 6 months and the virus itself is frequently mutating.
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  3418.  @mydogeatspuke  Clearly? Your comment is still not intelligible. Communism is not noted for efficacy and pharmacy companies are not noted for relying on communism for anything. 'Melt'? I don't understand modern slang picked up from trashy TV shows as I don't watch trashy TV shows.
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  3419.  @zotharr  What do you mean that the mutations come 'just in time'? Just in time for what? Flu and cold viruses also mutate a lot which is why the flu jab is given every year. That's just the nature of some viruses.
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  3420.  @mydogeatspuke  So why do you do it?
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  3421.  @mydogeatspuke  This is getting tired now. Believe what you want if it makes you happy.
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  3422.  @kieron1659  Why is it that the ignorant and conspiracy theorists are always the poorly educated ones? What is 'un patient' and who is the 'it' that's getting 'un patient'? Do you mean 'impatient'? Where is your evidence for 15-20% that 'everybody knows'? Don't bother repying without evidence as there's no point in spreading more nonsense.
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  3423.  @iceetmarne3571  It's not unheard of for Shakespeare's words to have more than one meaning. He was clever that way. I agree it is indeed powerful.
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  3424.  @saxglend9439  Labour is not in power and hasn't been since 2010.
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  3425.  @EskiLdn  It matters who is in power when you are wanting to complain about what's happening to you under their control. The Cons have gone more right wing than ever. Those who think they set left wing policies must be to the right of Ghengis Khan. They do what they need to do to stay in power, but often that means telling a lot of lies when they think their power is slipping. If you think they have to move to the left to please voters, that means the voters are to the left of the Cons. Moving to please the voters is democracy surely?
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  3426.  @saxglend9439  Of course each new government inherits a situation but then what they choose to do about it is usually coloured by their own ideology. There was a world banking crisis when Labour was last in power and they had to spend billions bailing out the banks. When the Tories came into power in 2010 they decided that years of austerity was the answer to the economic situation they found, unlike the USA and Portugal who came out of recession faster without resorting to years of austerity. Now we have Covid which has forced the government to spend billions but not always wisely (e.g £37bn handed out to friends and supporters without any competition for contracts, then not publishing those contracts as legally required). So far they haven't suggested that more austerity is needed but that may change. Brexit has also damaged the economy, particularly the hard form of Brexit that Boris opted for.
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  3427. Well done!
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  3428. It's strange to think that Eton was originally built to educate 'poor boys'.
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  3429. He needs a job that doesn't require too much effort.
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  3430.  @ForgedPlanetTV  Everything is being privatised under the Tories so that their supporters and mates can stick their noses in the trough of profiting from ex-public services. That's not going to change under this government. Only Labour have said they will take privatised services back into public control.
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  3431. Sometimes. The panel is annoying, but it's one of the few regular forums where members of the public get to put their representatives on the spot.
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  3432.  @rogerwoodhouse7945  The Tories are very good at drawing themselves through the mud. They need no help from me. When we leave the EU we will need trade deals to come up from WTO trade terms (which is like the 4th division of trade). The largest economy outside of the EU is the US but the US will know we need deals more than they do and will expect us to accept goods produced according to their lower standards in treatment of the environment, food, animal welfare and chemical use. They will want us to accept their aggressive foreign policy agenda and assist them in it to reduce their costs. Also the Tories hate regulation and contain a lot of libertarians who will want us to emulate US policies because it suits them and their right wing ideologues and their wealthy sponsors hoping to get even more wealthy. Here's a little video for you. I don't think you will like it though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HDFegpX5gI&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=18&t=0s and don't forget that at the moment we trade tariff free with the EU but after a no deal Brexit not only will all the deals we have with other countries, as part of the EU, immediately lapse, but the EU will slap tariffs on our exports to them e.g 40% on lamb. We will also have to decide our tariffs and if we place tariffs on imports the cost of living will go up for everyone in the UK but if we choose zero tariffs our manufacturing and agricultural sectors will be unable to compete against cheap imports from countries with low workers rights and poor conditions for them, and our agriculture and manufacturing sectors may be unable to continue to survive.
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  3433. *afford
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  3434. No. Different issues.
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  3435.  @nathanielsmith420  O dear. Maybe that's why we're in the state we're in. Too much ignorance among the electorate.
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  3436. Pretty sure it's not just leftist media. There aren't many of them tbh.
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  3437. It's not about the government being in London, as the woman suggests, it's about the government being Tory.
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  3438.  @jacktrevino1108  Any relation to Lee?
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  3439.  @EroticOnion23  They don't have many scholarships. It's all horribly elitist. And much of it is about perception - the perception that people from these schools make the best leaders, but a privileged sheltered upbringing and a facility in Latin and the classics doesn't make people fit to be leaders in a modern society and a modern economy.
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  3440. Giuliani's a charlatan who looks and sounds like a mafia don. These people don't believe in democracy. If they lose they aren't going to accept it. Trump's sense of entitlement means he never thinks he should be voted out - not even when 2 terms are up.
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  3441.  @zainzoala1083  *affected
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  3442. And they won't vote for the likes of DeSantis
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  3443. That's because the government and the MSM are following the science, as far as it's known, and not conspiracy theories. Science is verifiable. The whole world is not involved in a conspiracy.
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  3444.  @alice1374 He has to do stuff to show he is different from the Tories in office otherwise he will be out next time and he knows it.
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  3445. So people are never going to be able to visit or hug their parents or grandparents, in your scheme of things.
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  3446. Reported by whom? Was that factual? In the 1950s Britain was short of Labour after WW2 and actively invited workers from abroad to take factory and transport jobs for instance. Migrants from the subcontinent are noted for working hard, working long hours, starting businesses, doing well in education and getting on in life.
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  3447. Lindinle. Yes, your arms get nicely suntanned if they are bare. *bear arms not bare arms. That would increase the violence multifold - just like in the USA.
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  3448. That's the point. Henry VI was mentally weak and naive at best and sometimes mentally unstable. The Wars of the Roses might not have taken place if he had been a more capable King. He relied on incompetent and corrupt officials who caused discontent at court and in the nation. The Queen was determined to make an enemy of the Duke of York, whom she saw as a threat. She got what she wished for.
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  3449. Lettuce smash the economy.
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  3450. Can someone publish the slides please?
    2
  3451. I believe he's a nurse not a doctor.
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  3452.  @musiclife7251  Agreed. I wasn't meaning to imply otherwise. I was just correcting a factual error.
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  3453. Salzopyrin. Well that's how you come across, so I suppose you judge others by your own low standards.
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  3454.  @JelWard-y1v  Surely you didn't expect magic overnight repair after so many years of neglect?
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  3455. He endorsed him by saying he would 'be excellent' and 'do a good job' as P.M if he gets chosen. If you go on TV and hold up a brand of coffee and say this is excellent, isn't that an endorsement?
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  3456.  @iainmrodgers9991  I think it's clear what his preference is, but l won't press the point further.
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  3457.  @stefonetyus4869  Cereal, (particularly oats), contains fibre which is good for the digestion and a preventive for colon cancer. Oats also lower cholesterol. Processes food is expensive and not so good. Cooking from raw ingredients is the healthiest and often cheaper as the food goes further.
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  3458. Between them with their ludicrous bidding war, they will destroy the British economy, even more than it is destroyed already.
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  3459. He's laughing because he thinks his career is safe now.
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  3460.  @domefford864  There will be so many people in his field who have lost their jobs. .He'll be up against more competition for fewer jobs. I'd say his experience has also knocked his confidence and maybe given him depression.
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  3461. Irrelevant comment.
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  3462. You misspoke. The vaccines are not 'effective AGAINST preventing severe cases of Covid 19', they are 'effective AT preventing severe cases of Covid 19'.
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  3463.  @xaviistoroben6805  I don't know what you mean by 'do anything' and why you asked me that question since you provided the answer yourself in a prejudgement. I'm retired and for Covid purposes I have been identified as a vulnerable person that needs to stay at home. What do you do?
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  3464. No only met him but promoted him to the House of Lords against security advice.
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  3465. Truths ( as a verb?), criming? What on Earth is being done to the English language?
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  3466. @D C Look at it another way and household poll tax could be 4 times as much as paid previously, even though not everyone was earning.
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  3467. This channel is so Trumpist it's ludicrous. It doesn't matter the consequences. She did the right thing. She's a woman of integrity who put her country first.
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  3468.  @Sal19732  Aw. Bless.
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  3469. They could never be as pathetic as this government's ballsup of Brexit.
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  3470. You are not real, surely?
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  3471. For most of history world population size was flatlined at a low level, because of high mortality, because of disease combined with lack of knowledge about bacteria and viruses. The reason that population has grown so much in the last 100 years is because of better sanitation, scientific knowledge underpinning better health services, and vaccines. When I was born the world population was 2 billion. Now it's getting on for 8 billion.
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  3472. Corporations in a capitalist system can only survive via constant growth and constant sales to generate constant profits. They profit from sickness and not from health so cures or acknowledgement of the role of immunity are not in their interests. There needs to be more government investment in bodies to advise on health and drugs for their populations (and the necessity or non necessity of those) where the scientific experts are not related to or dependent on the pharmaceutical industries.
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  3473. It's the cranky fake news sites you need to be concerned about most but sometimes it's had to distinguish some of the mainstream news sites from those (.e.g. Fox News)
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  3474.  @Samuel94872  I'd only run away.
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  3475.  @sharukh78  *convenient
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  3476. They aren't even counting the people they've turned away for lack of ID if they are turned away by 'greeters' outside of the poling station.
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  3477. Does that make you a Tory voting landlord?
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  3478. Who's voting for her then?
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  3479.  @sallyseaward5865  🌹
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  3480. I hate to break it you, but she's dead
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  3481.  @lokinakor1  Biden with Dementia is probably 10 times more intelligent than Trump.
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  3482. But who will repeal UKIP?
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  3483.  @a.b3203  Absolutely not.
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  3484. Because the virus can damage your lungs making it difficult to breathe and they fill with fluid and you literally drown in the worst cases. This consultant doctor describes how it affects the body https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejlbCmRJMW4&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=10&t=2s
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  3485.  @maekong2010  👍
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  3486.  @mysticalwildflower5257  I've done a lot of research but we are talking about motivations here. I don't think 'compliance' is an end in itself. I think societies are trying to protect themselves and their health in an imperfect world with imperfect means, and just trying to do the best in the circumstances. What is your solution?
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  3487.  @unclepiccolo4832  When you see the whole play - all three of them in fact (4 if you count Richard III) it's not the ethnic background of the actors you notice but the good acting, the great story and plot, and the beautiful poetic language. Don't forget that in Shakespeare's time the audience had to suspend its disbelief over women characters played by men, as women weren't allowed to act in the theatres.
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  3488.  @unclepiccolo4832  They still wouldn't look like real women. Would you have her try and look like a white woman. That would hardly be convincing either. No one looks exactly like the characters they are playing anyway. Look up images of Henry VI. The actor playing him looks too normal, healthy and handsome to convincingly look like Henry VI. The point is they use their acting skills to play the character, not their ability to physically imitate the character.
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  3489. They were counted as part of the 'profits' of the Post Office. The Post Office doesn't always make profits though in which case the amounts would have been offset against P.O. losses.
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  3490.  @jurgen8084  The instructions in the UK were to record Covid as the cause of death when any patient with Covid dies within 28 days regardless of any other cause of death but then those who die after 28 days are not counted at all in Covid figures and the first wave of deaths from Covid in care homes were not counted or deaths at home. In the first wave only hospital deaths were counted. The 'excess death figures' are used as a basis for verifying Covid death figures. Also survival from Covid does not always mean a return to normal good health. Some people suffer from longer term symptoms and it's not yet clear whether any of these will be permanent but certainly some permanent lung damage can occur. Also it's not yet clear whether this will be like flu in the sense of never completely going away but mutating and infecting again. It's not clear how long immunity from infection will last. It's a nasty disease. New research indicates that there may also be genetic factors at play in terms of those that suffer the most severe symptoms. Of course countries are desperate for vaccines in order to get lives and economies back to normal as soon as possible so developments were speeded up and the normal length of time for monitoring vaccines, cut short. At present nearly 5% of the population in the USA have been infected and there are now over 300k deaths. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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  3491. Where have you been burying your head? Ukraine has been the one pushing for talks.
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  3492. Why all the emphasis on charisma? Boris had that, whereas the most effective Labour leader Clem Attlee wasn't charismatic. It's policies, effectiveness and integrity that are more important. Having said that Truss is terrible and Sunak's not trustworthy but may be more sensible with the economy.
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  3493. I feel that royal families at this time were rather like the mafia.
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  3494. Watch the service go down the plughole and or prices get severely hiked up after privatisation and low pay in the sector become endemic. Does this government care? No they only care about their own wonga and that of their rich friends and allies in the city. The country will never have a decent economy as long as it's run by those of great greed and little imagination.
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  3495. So you don't spread it to someone who might be vulnerable, and so it can be distinguished from other conditions like colds and flu, so that the NHS doesn't get overwhelmed with a virus out of control.
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  3496. You can tell which part of Britain youtubers come from when they can't pronounce the th sound and pronounce it like a v or an f.
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  3497. Clearly he didn't have much money having declared bankruptcy
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  3498. Relatively speaking. We don't have the same population size or resources as those 2 countries.
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  3499.  @HYUKLDER1  But is the EU still pushing that?
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  3500. More like she was trying to get her honours through bullying tactics. Glad she didn't get it. Whatever did she do that would have made her deserve it? Lazy and ignorant in Ministerial office and not bothered to even turn up or do her job most of the rest of the time. It's all about ego with her.
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  3501. Putin did the same to people in Salisbury England. His agents were caught on CCTV and identified. One of them had recently been presented with a medal by Putin.
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  3502.  @ryrilo99  Good show. It's not always easy to tell. Some people are just daft.
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  3503. Well he's halfway there when Boris starts treating Starmer as if he's the P.M.
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  3504. PFI, then PPI then PPE. 3 letter P words at the heart of government problems.
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  3505. How?
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  3506. Why does Alexander Mercouris speak in such a weird phoney pompous way and why does he have that weird expression on his face - a cross between smug arrogant self regarding and pretentious? I'm not defending Prince Andrew but just irritated by the manner of this interview. Corbyn pronounced Epstein in the German way. It looks like a German origin name.
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  3507. Would the consequences be imprisonment of the Home Secretary if they pushed ahead regardless, as this woman wants. I do hope so.
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  3508. Was she drunk? The way she's walking might suggest so.
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  3509. That headline is a lie and the United Nations recognises that there's been a theft of land by Israel outwith its 1948 assigned borders.
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  3510. He is undoubtedly ignorant, and he may be getting muddled because for some time (not sure how long) it's not been necessary for people travelling to Eire from the UK, and vice versa, to have a passport, but that's not the same as qualifying for citizenship.
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  3511.  @yuccatree4298  Well that's the Tory Party for you. It's full of ignorant bigoted morons, only mildly less so than the DUP. I doubt they'll get any change to the backstop agreement so it will be a choice of hard Brexit or Remain. If you think they are a concern for you, they are also a concern for us. We are being governed by them. Most of the public would not support any extremes they are proposing. The heartening thing is that David Davis is not longer the Brexit Secretary. Patel fell from grace a while ago over trying to make secret deals with Israel contrary to government policy so their influence is diminished. I fear that Boris Johnson may be elected leader if the MPs don't get rid of him before the final selection, as the final selection is done by party members who think he is popular and for hard Brexit.
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  3512.  @yuccatree4298  Strangely enough I read a book called 'Hell or Connaught' and realised there were even worse people than Cromwell in Irish history though he did some terrible things. Some of those who followed him were for genocide. I think people these days have a more nuanced reading of history. It's not all presented as black and white, but it's one of those subjects that the present government and many young people regard as 'useless' so it's less and less popular as a subject to take. Both my parents were Irish but I was born in England. We are all basically the same peoples in these islands. It was the Normans who conquered England and were in control when they also conquered Wales, Ireland, and attempted to conquer Scotland. and they used a tactic of divide and conquer so they allied with some Irish clans and then conquered them after conquering their enemies first. (The Romans did the same thing with the British tribes when they conquered England) After that Britain followed up by trying to consolidate their grip on Ireland and keep control of it. (I've never read a sadder history than Ireland's. There seemed to be no light at the end of the tunnel for century after century). I see no intention in the UK to do Ireland down now,. Things have changed and the attitude to Ireland is a friendly one. However it's true that politically Britain will put her interests first (as other countries do) if they believe there's a clash with the interests of neighbouring countries. It should be possible to avoid a clash with good will on both sides, I hope, though Brexit in the current UK political set up is a bit of a political nightmare apart from the economic damage that will occur. I have listened to JOB on LBC on youtube now and again. He makes some good points though his attitude can be annoying at times.
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  3513. He's the Mayor of Manchester. I presume he speaks when he's asked to by the media. He doesn't like what the Tory government are doing and the way it's affecting Manchester.
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  3514. *sense?
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  3515. She says through investments from public and private funding. She's only been in office a couple of working days. Give them a chance to work out the details.
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  3516. The thumbnail image looks like the hairstyles of Little Richard and James Brown.
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  3517. Well Oswald Moseley is in the show. He was a fascist, influenced by Mussolini and would have allied with the Nazis but he was interned in WW2.
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  3518. Only recently one of Putin's supporters has said that Russia should take back East Germany because it was theirs.
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  3519. 'Wilf' is o.k
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  3520. Some hospitals are closing some wards so that staff can be redeployed to hospitals dealing with the Coronavirus.
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  3521. *led to his career crash not lead. Does no one in this channel write in English?
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  3522. He thinks it is. The more that's spent on the people, the less there is for him and his mates to siphon off.
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  3523. You can't sack civil servants for refusing to break the law. The civil service code forbids them from breaking the law. The Rwanda policy is illegal.
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  3524.  @michaelhayes1068  True.
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  3525.  @michaelhayes1068  I've noticed a dropping off in services in areas that have been privatised or outsourced, but I don't have much to complain about as far as individuals go. Most people try to do their best it seems to me. I think things will get worse if laws are changed to remove customer protections following Brexit. It's shocking to me that governments still haven't made it illegal for companies to raid the pension funds of their own employees (from Robert Maxwell, to Philip Green and now P&O) or to stop money laundering and tax evasion by criminal enterprises, or to do more to prevent online fraud.
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  3526. We don''t know the motive yet or do you have a hotline to the police?
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  3527. Non voters can hardly complain about the result.
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  3528. I hardly noticed. Perhaps you were not too engaged anyway.
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  3529. Not so. We haven't left yet so we could stay under the same terms as before.
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  3530. Weird pronunciation of Antrim.
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  3531.  @blaze1148  What would the over 75s watch then?
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  3532.  @blaze1148  'For some reason'. Yeah and the BBC is respected worldwide too. Silver surfers are not whingers who expect the BBC always to reflect their views. They know there are different views in the country and want to hear the debates and make their own minds up. They also look for independent facts.
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  3533. He looks like he doesn't understand a word that's being said but is trying to pretend he does.
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  3534. It shows them kicking him but he is pixellated. You can see their leg movements though
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  3535. There's plenty of right wing agenda on the BBC too. It's charter obliges it to be balanced and if you have collected evidence that it's not, you should submit it to the BBC governors.
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  3536.  @davidcarroll3169  In my opinion the BBC spent far too much time showing what Trump and his family were doing almost every minute of the day in the UK. Unnecessary overload.
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  3537. Katie Price
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  3538. You don't really understand how Parliament works. MPs can vote no confidence in a government but not in a Parliament. Parliament is part of our democratic institutions. I don't think you could force Corbyn to do something he did not believe in.
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  3539.  @Arklowdrummers  I can't see that because the Queen knows that to preserve the Monarchy, she has to stay neutral, politically.
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  3540.  @afghosting8772  Not sure what job that would be and I would not have the strength, nor would a man of my age, I suspect, but some women would be strong enough given the chance, after all there are women firefighters now and they have to pass a test of carrying a body over their shoulder, down a ladder. There are also women wrestlers and boxers. Also, in the third world, it is the women who do most of the physical work.
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  3541. I don't think so. He's said he's not interested in that and there are probably too many racists in the country for it to be possible.
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  3542. So what happened to them?
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  3543. It's sad really to think that in centuries gone by, people didn't have the information to know how best to look after their health. We are so lucky in knowing so much more, so we can do something to protect ourselves if we choose. It's nice to have a choice.
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  3544. Since it's mostly affecting gay and bisexual men at the moment and most of the population have been vaccinated against Covid, that theory doesn't seem to hold water.
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  3545. In favour of central dictat you mean?
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  3546. Covid isn't over but the NHS also has to absorb the consequences all the political failures in health policy. Why refer to the NHS as a bottomless pit for money? The UK spends less on health proportionately than many other countries. Why do you think there are not enough staff? Of course it's a money problem. The pay is not good enough to fill all the vacancies and people have worked under huge pressures. A lot of staff were lost because of Brexit also.
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  3547.  @billhawkins192  I don't know all the circumstances. Perhaps the parents didn't know or didn't know he was a predator. After all, until recently he was regarded as a well respected celebrity. I did hear that the girl was recovering from an eating disorder and he was 'helping her'. He holds himself out as being some kind of wise guru. She described him as a 'friend' before the incident.
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  3548.  @billgreen576  Maybe naivety in trusting him or desperation to cure her of her eating disorder. We should not judge without knowing the facts.
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  3549. Yeah. All those thousands of people in India dying from the new variant. Great actors I suppose in your mindset.
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  3550.  @heminder  I don't think they are collecting data on that.
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  3551.  @cycliii  That's what chronic conditions means.
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  3552. @Aksel Harmaajärvi Wrong.
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  3553. I think it's a blackberry that's not yet ripe. They are red before they ripen.
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  3554. Do please feel free to volunteer in hospitals and care homes to prove your fake reporting theory.
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  3555. The reason why it ends up in the hands of such people is because reasonable people don't get involved.
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  3556.  @Firitesen  Nobody ever dies from a virus or a bacteria. They die from the damage these things cause. If they didn't have Covid their organs would not have been damaged so Covid is given as the cause of death. We need to keep track of deaths caused by Covid so we can take measures to prevent them. If doctors didn't distinguish between non Covid patients who died from lung disease or heart attacks, and patients with Covid who died of lung disease or heart attacks we would not have the data to monitor or control the virus. I don't understand why people look to pointlessly split hairs. Another things is, that if you have a heart condition but no Covid you will be in a different ward, hospital area or hospital to prevent you getting Covid. That's important too because your chances or survival would definitely reduce if you contracted Covid on top of such existing conditions.
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  3557.  @qetoun  Not while we are signed up to the ECHR anyway.
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  3558. It's funny. We are not all Trump brown nosers.
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  3559. I wish people would stop starting sentences with 'so', which is a conjunction.
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  3560. Of course he likes this country. What it the country? It is its people. Who is fighting to protect people from the ravages of the Tory government? Corbyn.
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  3561. There are far more Nazi groups in Russia than in Ukraine, an expert on the history and politics of that area has said.
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  3562.  @tatemoore3596  I don't think the tide covers where they are sitting, since most of them are sitting there all day which they couldn't do if the tide covered that area every few hours.
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  3563.  @hjyigo4759  Perhaps they were concerned for the welfare of the nation.
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  3564. *Worst then. Worse it would be if she was only comparing 2 managers.
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  3565.  @awpetersen5909  I wasn't meaning 'worse than' though but worse comma then (then being said for emphasis not comparison, as in I'm going then' for instance or meaning 'in that circumstance it's 'worse' that's appropriate) but I can see that it just looked like a typo so I've altered it.
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  3566. I don't know why there is so much co-hosting on TV where the hosts present subjects like it's a tennis match with speech alternating between them.
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  3567. From the Thatcher era when so many council houses were sold off and afterwards when not enough new houses were built of any type. Thatcher and later governments did not allow council house building and developers 'land banked' to push up prices of houses in the private sector. Also funding to local councils was massively cut so their spending on home maintenance dropped.
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  3568. It does not have to be factual. It's a drama. Shakespeare often played fast and loose with facts. His histories do not stick strictly to the facts. Queen Margaret was a foreigner in England and was regarded as such by many so the choice of actress actually helps to emphasise that aspect.
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  3569. You want him to not represent you in government then?
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  3570. This is Trump's America. When will you be leaving Tibet?
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  3571.  @daftwod  Let's not fuel paranoia between countries. We'd all like to survive.
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  3572. * You jest, surely
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  3573. Surely that's what Boris is doing? These measures won't bring down the R number to 1 or below. It's not just about deaths. There is also long term health damage to some survivors, but I don't think the government is collecting data on that. If it runs out of control completely though, with winter flu coming on too, the NHS will not be able to cope and more people will die outside of hospital for lack of access to effective treatment in hospital.
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  3574. @Bach Wagner I think these people will help to bump the death rates up.
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  3575. Not being around at the moment, is a strange euphemism for death, as if they might reappear in future.
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  3576. A 15% increase from a low base, after a larger drop, isn't near getting back to 'normal'.
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  3577.  @darrenleake3343  You want out of the EU because it's not democratic overrides your own Parliament, so you think, and then you want to override Parliament yourself by having a civil war. Hardly democratic.
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  3578.  @ronnieince4568  Yes. The right to dual citizenship is part of the Good Friday Agreement.
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  3579.  @andrewheaney6858  Yes but The Good Friday Agreement, I understand, gave people in NI the right to choose Irish nationality. They could have dual nationality.
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  3580. So Trump's not corrupt for diverting campaign funds to his own family's accounts?
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  3581. You're pretending to know what he is talking about and so is he.
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  3582. You don't know that. You just assume it.
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  3583.  Baza H  As you pointed out in your first sentence. It's wrong to judge a book by its cover. It's a pity you didn't apply the same logic to your last sentence.
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  3584. He was always talking with an English accent. He's English.
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  3585.  @someinteresting  Yes I've seen the video but when she asks him to speak with an English accent, the audience laughs because he is English and his own accent is an English accent. So many people seem to think there is only one English accent
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  3586.  @someinteresting  I don't want anything. I'm just commenting on the inaccuracy of comments to the effect that there is a single English accent and he doesn't speak with one.
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  3587.  @donnaspeer2760  Such as who? Perhaps I should have said 'plants' (their way of' disowning' racists. same thing.
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  3588. Maybe she previously had a private agreement with the party and would voluntarily have stood down (that's been speculated) but the party then briefed the Tory press that she would be banned without any contact with her about that. It was a humiliating and degrading move against one of their longest serving loyal MPs.
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  3589. Decanus Gaius Publius. I did note your original comment. The reason I mentioned these things is that I presume that if there were some black people in Europe in Roman times their descendants might still be in the population by medieval times. It's only a small point - not a big deal. Feel free to ignore it.
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  3590. Decanus Gaius Publius. I can't think of anything else to say about this.
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  3591.  @maxd3028  They are 'between a rock and a hard place'.
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  3592. *ask. How do you know he wasn't asking British people?
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  3593. I believe all interviewers have producers talking into their earpieces. I'm not sure of the amount of control they exert. It might vary.
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  3594. He was playing King James in Doctor Who.
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  3595.  Toad Tea  Take a trio to North Korea to see if your comparison holds.
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  3596. H Max. Trump is best at sowing confusion. His views change so frequently and depend on who he is talking to.
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  3597. If nobody wants a Labour government how come according to Starkey, it will be voted in 'with a massive majority'. It sounds like a failure of logic to me. Certainly nobody wants the current Tory government and its 14 years of failure. I think the Tories have had much more pantsdown activity than Labour. Keith Joseph was a nutter and Starkey is moving in his footsteps.
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  3598. Yeah. Then there will be no one to carry out the government's wishes. Good.
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  3599.  @zanick2  Patrick Michaels did not talk about the increasing frequency of hurricanes and other adverse weather events. Is he the one cherry picking? The Cato institute that he works for is an American libertarian think tank with an agenda. The vast majority of scientists are now convinced global warming is real, is a danger, and is largely man made but you can always get a few scientists to say otherwise if they are paid to.
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  3600.  @townseydroidborleyboy8024  No I didn't but children are not always aware of the implications of what adults teach them to do.
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  3601. Yes, and Boris might not even be successful at sabotaging his own campaign. Sound of loud argument, followed by woman screaming and shouting 'get off me' followed by sounds of loud thumps. It does sound like domestic violence. Whatever Boris is, he isn't poor.
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  3602. *faint (says Mogg)
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  3603. He messed up the NHS and he's ready now to mess up more.
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  3604. The Tories have brought private sector management into the NHS, often without experience of health management, because they assume the private sector management will ensure efficiency. They are mostly on contracts where they can be sacked for not meeting financial/cost targets. If you started again, the Tories would ensure the same kind of managers ended up in the NHS. What's needed is a change of government.
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  3605.  @banana9106  Management are there to manage the money and ensure no waste. Many of them have been brought in from the private sector. Health of patients is a secondary issue. Many NHS Trusts are in debt due to years of underfunding.
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  3606.  @rGxDale  Healthcare should be entirely separate from business. The ethics are entirely different. Managers in the NHS are sacked for not being able to do the impossible. There is too little money in the system and it's impossible to get out of debt without compromising healthcare. This has been going on for some years with changes of management. If it was possible management would have done it by now.
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  3607.  @rGxDale  Managers used to learn in house on training schemes, not be parachuted in from outside with no knowledge. Skills needed are finance skills, management skills (including people skills) and knowledge of the health sector they are working in). Savings are already being made in the digital area but there are risks attached, and the savings are not enough to compensate for an ageing and sickening population. It's been proven by research that poverty worsens people's health. Also there's a drain on the NHS from the inadequately funded social care sector. In the past the government made large cuts to the social care budget. Frankly the government told people what they were going to do and people were stupid enough to vote for them.
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  3608. Hancock wasn't sacked. He resigned. Downing street has confirmed that. Boris is now trying to pretend he sacked him.
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  3609. Failure to protect them from the damage inflicted by the Westminster government or from their neglect?
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  3610.  @noiselatrine9862  Thanks. I thought I'd seen that sort of format of response before.
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  3611.  @Route-20  You are referring to something different from my comment which was about the Southport killer only.
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  3612.  @tlilmiztli  No I don't think that. Why are you addressing that comment to me?
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  3613.  @PeterPeter-qc7ky  Rioting against innocent people.
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  3614. If she's the PM, she's the one responsible. I think Nadine Dorries had help in writing her book. Liz Truss probably could not find anyone to help or lacks the awareness that she needed it. She was elected by Tory Party members. That tells you all you need to know about Tory Party members. In an episode of 'The Rest is Politics' Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart talked about her and what a childlike mind she has.
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  3615. People who consistently tell lies are cut off. That's the difference.
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  3616.  @khankrum1  I think the Danes/Vikings recognised Aethelstan as King of England.
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  3617. Penelope Whittaker-Wright Not looking at the facts then? Just getting annoyed with people?
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  3618. Time you grew up.
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  3619. It's gonna affect you too.
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  3620.  @Vegan123  You're welcome.
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  3621.  @mickeypopa  I did understand that you meant both catholic and German, but you seem to have missed my point. Why would the Germans judge people for not being catholics? Most Germans were not catholics. Two thirds of Germans were protestants. Did you mean to say christians instead of catholics?
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  3622.  @ThePokeHimOn  I've just been googling and maybe hard Brexit can't be stopped by Parliament now that article 50's been invoked. It took an extension from the EU to stop it on Mar 29 and at the next deadline (Oct 31) either the EU could push us out without a deal or if the UK government can't get a deal they want they may just be content to leave without one and that can't be stopped. This is scary. Most people who argue on the internet for a hard Brexit are just basing it on blind faith that all will be well, and have not looked into the implications at all.
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  3623. When people make these kind of comments, it's often because they think the bad places are elsewhere, not where they live, and they usually associate 'bad places' with immigrants. That is just prejudice or ignorance. You can find nice people anywhere in the UK and from all kinds of backgrounds.
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  3624. *scraping
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  3625. There's one way to find out James.
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  3626.  @samdonohoe9796  No. They can't all be the worst can they? Some will do better than others.
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  3627.  @samdonohoe9796  Well, on a spectrum of politicians and their achievements on Covid 19 I would say it's better to be in New Zealand or Germany.
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  3628.  Original T  A legend to himself. A legend in his own lunch hour.
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  3629.  @Delboy0  It's not about 'feeling sorry'.It's about voting them out at the next opportunity.
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  3630.  brooker j  It's unlicensed though, and just look at the side effects including 'fever' and 'asthma exacerbation' https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drug/ivermectin.html
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  3631.  Moonshine Buck  Evidence that suicide is routinely registered as a corinavirus death as a matter of policy? They also look at 'excess deaths' for this time of year and can see how many more deaths there are than usual. That acts as a corroborating measure.
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  3632. Cancel Net Zero then sit back and watch the world slowly implode (and maybe not so slowly).
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  3633. He's speaking English with a Scottish accent - just tune in.
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  3634.  @tentaklaus9382  They are not childish. The one guy did write something meaningless and I used a word that meant meaningless. The other comment was just pointing out that someone had a lack of evidence for the kneejerk dismissal of someone else's comment
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  3635.  @andyrob3259  Big pharma and the far left would not be allies. Something to the left of Fox news is not necessarily 'far left'. More 'centre'.
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  3636. *wear
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  3637.  @c.garcia2363  It wasn't a criticism, just an observation. I'm sure it's not easy being the brother of Andrew, and I'm sure he does care. People can't always help how they look. From 8:02 I see he had a bad case of Covid so maybe that's affected him in other ways too.
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  3638. Sad.
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  3639. Every time I get a roofer's card through the door I check the details. Mostly they have fake addresses. When I look them up in Companies House it's always the same - less than a year in existence, no accounts, usually only one director. These companies can close down with no penalty after committing fraud on customers and re-open under a different name. 'Roofers' often come and tell me I have a loose tile on the roof. No one can see that from street angle. Goodness knows what they'd do or charge if I ever let them up there. I can see for myself from a flat roof at the back that there are no loose tiles. It's Inquiry for the formal governmental thing. Enquiry for just asking questions.
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  3640. In Germany holocaust denial is against the law and a criminal offence. Maybe election result denial with no evidence to back it up should be made a criminal offence in the USA.
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  3641. boshankers12. You didn't get that the overacting here is deliberate. She is being deliberately manipulative to bring down the Gloucesters (which happens later) and she acts so that the audience can see that's what she's doing. They did try to make it as understandable as possible to the widest audiences. Here is the beginning of the downfall of the Gloucesters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjr5wjIiJ7E
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  3642. She doesn't acknowledge her own 'democratic deficit' of giving her constituents no representation for her pay since she first said she'd resign..
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  3643. Unfortunately spines are no help with the Coronavirus and people won't have spines for long if they are dead.
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  3644. I clicked on this video with trepidation having had a Moderna Covid 19 vaccination towards the end of May 24. On the other hand I'm dealing with a spread of cancer so something's going to get me at sometime. My immune system is lower than normal because of the cancer treatment, though the treatment is not classed as chemo so maybe my T cells don't react as much to the vaccine. I've no fear of traditional vaccines but it seems to be that switching more and more to mRNA vaccines without knowing longer term effects is a risk. Will we get a choice of traditional vaccines where they exist, for some of these viruses, such as flu or will we have no choice but the mRNA vaccinations in future? I knew someone with Norovirus who was off work for weeks because of vomiting and diarrhoea symptoms , very unpleasant and he lost a lot of weight. I don't think it's always a mild illness. These companies better test the market for these vaccines otherwise they stand to lose a lot of money if many people refuse to have them? Can the regulators stand up against big pharma?
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  3645. He's wicked.
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  3646. Funny you should say that....https://www.bbc.co.uk/news
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  3647.  @tedbeach4766  The point is that he.wanted to go when his supporters were storming the Capitol after praising them and asking for metal detectors to be removed. He would have been seen by the mob and by anyone else who saw him, as encouraging or even leading the illegal activity that day. His security men were either viewing him as potentially in danger from the mob (unlikely) or not wanting to facilitate his being seen in association with the mob.
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  3648.  @brewed_for_success  If he was leading a mob engaged in illegal activity, yes, that's a crime.
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  3649.  @potcrak1  If you are saying what I think you are saying, there's no point is saying one type of criminal activity is better or worse than another, if they are both criminal activity. The fact that it's criminal is the important thing and you wouldn't expect the country's leader to be indulging in it, since he is meant to stand for law and order, and the constitution, and be some kind of role model.
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  3650.  @tedbeach4766  I didn't know that. Thanks.
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  3651.  @potcrak1  I don't have a lot of opinions about ANTIFA but if their name is accurate being against fascism sounds like what they are about. Are you saying you feel the need to defend fascism from ANTIFA?
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  3652.  @chrisj9700  'heads in the sand'. They were modernisers if 'modernisation' means making things worse.
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  3653.  @lisab4207  I agree. My husband always says that and laments his early death.
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  3654.  @VenomousSpyro  Where is the proof that Corbyn is a terrorist and have you reported this to the police and submitted your proof to them? He's a supporter of peace and believes in talking to all sides to achieve peace, and in the end that is what the British government did to achieve peace in Northern Ireland, and this is now held up as a model worldwide as a way of achieving peace in conflict areas. People who took part in peace negotiations with both sides have won Nobel peace prizes.
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  3655. @Damian Papadimitropoulos The benefits and costs were all set out in their manifesto. Did you bother to read it before making your comment?
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  3656. Never spend on credit cards what you can't pay back within a month, or unless you desperately need something and have no alternative. If you are in debt you are not in control of your life, the finance companies are.
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  3657. In his last post Sajid David resigned. He wasn't moved on. He resigned because No 10 wanted to remove his aides and for him to us theirs, if I remember correctly which would have removed his independence as a Secretary of State. Having said that I've no love for any Tory Ministers and think they are all bad in various Tory ways.
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  3658. Yes, He knows what he is saying but he doesn't know it's nonsense.
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  3659. Yes she's got a unique perspective. It's a batshit one.
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  3660.  @tonymalony4382  He was Mary's husband. Yes that's probably the Dutch version of his name. He would have been just Mary's consort but she insisted that he be joint ruler with her. They had no children though.
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  3661. O Roger, you need to be less black and white about the international situation. Let Taiwan be free of that Tyranny in China if it wants to. The Chinese invaded Tibet, the Chinese are currently oppressing the Uighurs and also oppress their own people. Alternative views are not allowed in China and the internet is not freely available. Ukraine never had any foreign missiles installed before Russia invaded. Russia lied about its intentions to invade and it also is the one that won't negotiate unless it gets everything it wants including Ukrainian lands.
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  3662.  @deanthorpe1684  Yes. It was written in the imperative tense.
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  3663.  @deanthorpe1684  He wasn't able to get out. He had carers visiting him so it seems he caught it from his carers. His symptoms weren't classic. He had a lot of pain in his legs and was taken into hospital where he tested positive for Covid. Pain can be a symptom but it's not one the government mentions as a main one. I was reading Private Eye (the MD in there is very good). He said that a lot of people's Covid symptoms don't match the 3 mentioned by the government and other symptoms a lot of people get are fatigue and headaches. In March this year 3 of our household had fatigue and headaches that lasted about 3 weeks. I now wonder whether we had Covid then.
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  3664.  @michelgobets3803  It's about the consensus of the majority of scientists - such as those in SAGE or WHO. You can always find a few dissenters any any group.
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  3665.  @paul756uk2  When Communism has gone wrong (not as envisaged by Marx) because power has been concentrated among people who acted against their people, it has made little difference to many as you say, and maybe it's not possible for it ever to work. The key to avoiding dictatorship is to preserve democracy. Nothing is perfect but democracy is the best of the options. While a country has democratic elections open to all, it can't be said to be Communist or Fascist. However US and UK governments seem to be taking measures to limit democracy. I'd never call the Tories communist though. They are capitalists seeking to accumulate as much wealth for themselves as possible.
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  3666.  @LargeChap  Yes I think it's not possible for it to work, except in small simple societies such as tribal ones, mainly because of the tendency of power to corrupt those in power. Only democratic systems allow governments to be rejected. I wasn't intending to defend communism by the way, just initially responding to a commenter that seems to think it's what we have now.
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  3667. Councils no longer have the money to do it and the government won't give it to them. They could never build at a rate that would replace the loss, and they would be forced to sell what they build under the 'right to buy' so basically taxpayers and council taxpayers would be subsidising private buyers.
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  3668.  @cliffordheywood8997  I've heard the Moscow branch's new chocolate dessert 'novichok' is delicious.
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  3669. I doubt that Ricky Gervais was exposing celebrities because they are left wing. He himself endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party in 2017.
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  3670. Trying to make doctors cheaper so the private sector will be interested in taking over - profits all round - kerching!
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  3671.  @greeny202ab  I just haven't stayed in a 'we can go back to the past' mindset, that's all. I keep up to date with developments and change rather than living in a nostalgic dream. You can't believe that anyone born in that time could disagree with you it seems. It's not realistic in the present circumstances. No one has demonstrated that Brexit will produce any benefit for the ordinary punter. If you think that everyone of our generation should understand that Brexit will be a success, listen to Lord Davies of Stamford. He is older than me having been born in the 1940s but that means he can remember even further back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJEMt8IZL3w&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=34&t=161s
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  3672.  @Dan_1348  I wasn't suggesting he should go back to his wife. I doubt she'd want him, but did he ever seek forgiveness for the hurt he caused her and the children or is forgiveness only important to him when it can enhance his career?
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  3673. This is from the man who was a great admirer of Putin.
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  3674. The thicko?
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  3675. Antibiotics don't work on viruses, only on bacteria. Covid 19 is a virus.
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  3676.  @englishbullterrier847  That makes sense. I think he's still struggling a bit with the virus though by the sound of him.
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  3677. Here's an exciting PBS trailer for the whole show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqp9F7qSbWQ
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  3678. Prices went up to protect farming. On a hard Brexit, if there are no tariffs, certain food prices will go down but at the expense of the British farming industry which is already struggling. Fresh food that we get a lot of from Europe will go up in price or if we go further afield to get it, it will have to travel a long way and won't be transported fresh but frozen. Food is historically cheap in Britain now compared to earnings as there are a lot more supermarket chains and competition is putting downward pressure on food prices. It's obviously not cheap for poor people but the creation of more poverty is down to this government's policies over the last 9 years and a hard Brexit will do nothing to alleviate that.
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  3679.  @Mike_5  Almost every day, yes.
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  3680. How conned?
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  3681. Brits tend to have smaller families when they have them and often children have to move to other parts of the country for work or even to go abroad. Then as you get older, friends and relatives your age start to die out. Neighbours may not know each other. In the cities there is a lot of population movement and in the countryside neighbours may not live near and transport may not be available.
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  3682.  English Till The End  O.K. I wasn't taking the piss. It wasn't your spelling. It was a mistake a lot of people make confusing the singular (woman) with the plural (women). No need to stress about it though.
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  3683.  @edmundblackaddercoc8522  I don't think a caveat in their literature would have given them immunity. It was the acceptance of governments to this condition, required before being supplied with it. Governments at the time had nothing else with which to combat Covid.
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  3684. What was Jeremy Kyle's salary when he was exploiting people for entertainment purposes and also sometimes giving them or worsening their mental health problems. At least one killed himself. This divisive stuff about who earns more than who is crap. There will always be some differences in workers' pay, depending on things such as skills and strength of Unions. The fact is if their pay has been frozen or reduced in real terms over many years that's an unreasonable pressure on people, but top chiefs' pay and shareholder dividends (especially in the railway industry) always seems to increase more than inflation and ticket prices increase in line with RPI or more (the retail price index - an inflation linked index).
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  3685.  @manishdyall4779  It was an unwinnable war, an expensive war and since the Irish had resisted the British invasion for 900 years, even in times when a price was on their heads and they were hunted down like wolves, it was unlikely that they would be fully crushed. The only way through the situation, if you know anything about Irish history would be a peace agreement. The IRA was only revitalised in the late 1960s because when the catholic population marched for equality and civil rights, which they'd never had in NI before, Ian Paisley and his cronies laid a plot to violently attack the march. At that point people turned to those who would defend them from the violence and so a cycle of violence reasserted itself. It was never a black and white, good and bad conflict and no moral victory was possible other than through a peace agreement. In the end I believe the British government at the time became embarrassed that they appeared to be on the side of people in NI who would not allow all of its citizens the civil rights that people in the rest of the UK took for granted
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  3686. The reason the welfare state e.g. health and social security and universal suffrage came to be supported by governments (or at least they gave way to it) is because the governments were keen to prevent revolution having seen what happened in France and realised these arrangements should do that. So on the one side people and unions were pushing for it and striking and protesting for it and on the other side governments realised it was a useful move in stabilising society and their resistance reduced. Trump and Musk have not learned from history. Are they even aware of history and how they are playing with fire. Capitalism thrives best in stable societies not unpredictable unstable ones.
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  3687.  @tonyarichards5430  Only people can have emotions (like anger). Magma isn't a person. I will re-listen though. P.S Yes I think you're right. On second listen I head livid.
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  3688. I think she showed humour and spontaneity but in a restrained way. She was often the adult in the room when others were throwing tantrums or otherwise being childish. I liked her love of beer, her eye rolling at Putin, her handling of Trump, her general modesty and ordinariness.
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  3689. He achieved more as Mayor of London than any of his successors. He was a talented politician.
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  3690. Jacob Rees-Mogg is the most confident ignoramus I've ever heard.
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  3691.  @tomhayes750  Thanks for that info.
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  3692. You probably have to buy the Sun newspaper to read the full interview.
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  3693. The only one eradicated because of vaccine was smallpox. It no longer exists. Colds and flu type viruses change too rapidly to be eradicated by vaccine. Flu vaccines are always playing catch up.
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  3694. Rees Mogg and candour? I don't think they are related. JRM said the French would cause delays in Calais so the British government would not need to do anything to prepare in Dover. What a shyster. He behaves as if we're still in the EU and the French are doing something wrong. In fact it was the French who suggested the British government should create more capacity at Dover, given that passport checks would take longer after Brexit, by creating more border posts and the British government refused. You half skewered JRM with his past errors but it wasn't the full skewer you could have done.
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  3695.  @gen6807  I would, but Covid won't let me so I provide a free education service while in lockdown.
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  3696. What happened to Palmerston the Foreign Office Cat and Larry's rival and Gladstone who was the cat at the Chancellor's Office?
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  3697. It's Alan Cummings
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  3698.  @stephenlyons2024  Very well, thank you.
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  3699. Preservation of his ego.
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  3700. He travelled not to find 'childcare' (which the rules prevent others from doing anyway) but to find 'the right kind of childcare' apparently, to another part of the country (which now happens to have one of the highest Covid infection rates) 'with overwhelming aim of stopping the virus and saving lives'. How does that work again?
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  3701. They are not obliged to break the law. The civil service code forbids them from breaking the law so you can't sack them for that. Rees Mogg ignores the fact that the Rwanda policy has bene judged illegal.
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  3702.  @Fireglo  You surely aren't comparing Boris to Einstein and Newton. I'm sure even he would be flattered by that. Einstein and Newton's work had important practical implications. Boris studied classics (Latin and Ancient Greek - now dead languages). It depends what you mean by 'harder'. It's maybe not so hard for a genius to do academic work or for people who are academically inclined. It's hard in terms of input and application but a bricklayer's work is harder in a different way - physically harder and more dangerous. People in manual jobs used to die a lot sooner than those in academic or office jobs and as they got older it became harder to keep up the rate of physical work. Both work hard, but there's no suggestion that Boris worked too hard in applying himself to tasks in hand. He may be working harder now. He doesn't have a choice but he still has a problem in briefing himself properly. Anyway if you want to believe in Boris, good luck to you. I'm not going to waste any more time trying to make you see the light. Boris acts on behalf of the interests of the wealthy and big corporations. A hard Brexit will deliver no benefits to ordinary people.
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  3703. Many contracts went to cronies of the Conservative Party, those who were able to ring Boris and suchlike or who could cough up some moolah for the Conservative Party
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  3704.  @davidwarnes5158  I never read the Sun or any other similar rag. I don't employ anyone and have not invented anything commercially, but I pay my taxes and don't try to avoid them. Dyson employs people mainly abroad because he moved his factory from the UK to Asia. I don't buy his products now, having bought them in the past. I've found better ones ( a USA brand) that are cheaper, easier to maintain and just as effective. I don't know why the government couldn't buy from existing British Companies that made ventilators, rather than going for an uncertain untested product from Dyson.
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  3705. The loyalist politcians are loyal to the extent that it serves their own interests. As Hamlet says: "I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw,"
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  3706. Shakespeare's dramas are never totally historically accurate because the drama of a story was more important to him than the accuracy of the history, and in his time all the women's parts were played by men anyway, so a little poetic licence can be allowed.
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  3707. Yes, all over the world people interpret Shakespeare in their own way. That's the beauty of Shakespeare and why his plays have stayed popular worldwide for so long.
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  3708. You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
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  3709.  @takemefromamongtheheathen6508  What a cynical comment.
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  3710. The abolition of the death penalty is something the UK Parliament voted for.
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  3711.  @steveparker8065  Spell checkers are indeed annoying. I don't use them. If I'm unsure of the spelling of a word I google it.
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  3712.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  Why? Because you believe in censorship like Putin? Just watch another channel if you don't like one in particular. You have a choice and can easily find one that feeds you news to agree with your world viewpoint.
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  3713.  @ott1186  The BBC's charter requires them to be impartial and they have a Tory Chairman and a Tory Managing Director as well as a Tory Minister in charge of the Department responsible for them. Just because you see some views you disagree with doesn't mean it's not impartial. It just means there are a range of views unlike in Putin's Russia. To prove bias you'd have to monitor programmes over a period of time (e.g. news programmes) and count the views from left and right perspectives (or any others) and write to the Chairman to demonstrate that it's biased. Frankly this requirement for impartiality could mean that for every evidence backed statement, they would need to have someone to put opposing views, even if there was no evidence to back them. What particular 'bias' in this report, are you objecting to?
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  3714. It looks like an old xmas tree.
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  3715.  @ldurk5740  Thanks for explaining. I can't see the point of having a registration process.
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  3716.  @KatBrat808  I didn't realise the parties had separate polling stations. Having fewer less accessible ones for certain parties does sound like gerrymandering. Is there no system for checking someone didn't vote twice?
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  3717.  @ldurk5740  So why do some states require registration?
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  3718. It's looks and personality that make someone attractive.
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  3719. Getting Britain Moving - sounds like an advert for an enema company. Oh well, their policies are usually crap.
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  3720. What a terrible crime.
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  3721. IDS was unbelievably stupid and out of touch.
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  3722. Get the Tories out (Top priority). If a schism on the left causes the Tories to stay in power, I won't forgive them. If you can afford to risk the Tories getting back in then you haven't suffered enough.
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  3723.  @bryangeake5826  Absolutely and they did everything to conceal this agenda, at the time of the Referendum.
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  3724. He'll probably save many lives if the NHS can use the money to buy PPE.
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  3725.  @margaretobrien2015  I think he gets his message across to a lot of people but not enough to get elected, and also the message he gets across is to those badly affected by the current state of affairs especially the younger generation, he doesn't get it across to wider sections of society. He needs to explain to them why they've more to gain than lose by voting for him. I'm not sure whether he's really interested in doing that to those audiences. If he is it does not come across to them. Many people like farmers, fishermen, industry and others are badly affected by Brexit (I know many of them voted for it). What does he have to say about Brexit? His view at the time of the Referendum seemed very much to range from fence sitting to reluctant remainer. I know he's not a great fan of the EU, but Brexit is no solution is it? What is his proposed solution? I don't want to upset you, so I'll understand if you don't want to respond.
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  3726.  @KidStarverHALVEDhisVote  He didn't go up north enough really. They were labour supporters by instinct but pro Brexit because they felt left behind and had been persuaded to blame the EU for that. It really needed someone to put the argument for remain very powerfully there.
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  3727.  @janewright2800  Corbyn would have been better than the Tories of course, and would have looked after people more but many people didn't believe he had British interests at heart. For instance, I was listening to a Channel 4 news interview with Keir Starmer tonight. The interviewer mentioned that after the Salisbury poisonings by the Russians, Corbyn asked the P.M, then Theresa May, if she had given the Russians what they wanted.
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  3728. She is 84 and doesn't have plastic surgery so it's natural. It's her smoker's cough that is more worrying surely.
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  3729. He obviously doesn't think people should be in government positions unless they represent business.
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  3730.  @jamesupton4996  Yes, true.
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  3731.  @PeterNgola  Did you miss out the word 'go'? Well I like lots of places but I can't go and live in them all. I like the place I am now - the place where I was born. I am easily contented because I look for the best in every place..
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  3732. Lying to infidels is quite acceptable for the Taliban.
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  3733. Putin and XI have something in common -bad judgement.
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  3734. Lukashenko's said he will site Russia's nuclear weapons in Belarus, but he also said previously that he would not attack Ukraine unless Ukraine attacked Belarus. He knows that Putin is itching to take over Belarus, so he treads a fine line between pleasing Putin but not wanting to wholeheartedly engage in Putin's attack on Ukraine.
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  3735. At the time the IRA considered themselves at war with the British and saw members of the British Royal Family and British politicians as fair game.
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  3736.  @ЛишняяХромосома-э8ч  Those are not my views.
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  3737. or growing some viruses?
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  3738. He looks like Doctor Evil.
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  3739. I think the idea is that they won't have a choice but the Rwanda deal is bad value for British taxpayers for many reasons.
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  3740. Trump stopped working some time ago.
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  3741. Now the medics know more about how best to treat hospital cases and new cases may be seen more in younger people, but though that may mean more people survive it doesn't necessarily mean fewer people ending up in hospital so they are also keeping an eye on the number of hospitalisations and intensive care cases. Survival doesn't also mean back to good health either. There can be longer term after effects. Also older and vulnerable people have been taking precautions more but if it gets out of control even older people won't be able to protect themselves. There is also about a 2 week or more time lag between new rising cases and rising deaths from new cases.
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  3742.  @beati7706  Look at India now that Covid's out of control. They were complacent after the initial spike seemed to be receding. Look at Brazil where no measures were introduced. It is worse than flu for those who are badly affected because it can cause blood clots or damage bodily organs. About 2% die but in the UK in over 1 million of over 4 million cases, survivors are left with some sort of 'long Covid', that is, long term symptoms or permanent damage. My brother in law had Covid. It gave him a stroke and now he can't walk, can't feed himself, and can't speak well enough to make himself understood.
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  3743.  @joebobjenkins7837  Some people enjoy conspiracy sites not backed by any scientific evidence.
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  3744.  @accidentalcatalyst1003  How could it get people killed?
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  3745.  @lor6632  I know that but I did not understand what you were saying. What you wrote didn't make sense, as if something was missing
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  3746.  @AK-ne4og  I'll have to look into that but Bolsonaro is no better than the rest. I heard what he said about Covid at the beginning. He was totally useless like Trump. Are there no men and women of integrity in Brazil? Why do people vote for the corrupt ones?
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  3747. Charming family. Look at those guys behind her clapping like captured seals waiting for their fish.
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  3748.  EpicGurth  I wasn't referring to Varadkar.
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  3749.  @blue_jay31  Do you mean 'accepts'?.
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  3750. I don't blame Coutts because Farage kept accusing them of reasons that were not true.
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  3751. De Santis forcing Floridans to be guinea pigs. Wonder what happens when you ignore the science?
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  3752.  @CloudLamberts  A lot of them are drawn by jobs available. How many white guys are rushing to take security jobs?
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  3753. Trump will still claim to have won the next election regardless of the truth, that's if he allows an election to take place.
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  3754. You realise she's acting out putting on an act, to let us know she is not sincere but is trying to entrap the Duchess of Gloucester?
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  3755. It knows what it wants but it's never going to get it. It wants the economic benefits of the EU without the immigration obligations, and the political control, but these are never going to be divisible in that way. The EU will never allow it. When asked what the compromise position should be, that's when it doesn't know or can't agree what to compromise on. The ill-informed or idiotic were the ones who thought Brexit was all bound to be better, and win win.
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  3756. They have no idea what 'a good job' would look like. They just believe what they are told.
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  3757.  @nadjiguemarful  Not superior in human rights though or equality between the sexes.
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  3758. He didn't seem distressed in the video where he was watching the car burn.
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  3759. Ministers would never live in Bolton.
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  3760. Bold? Bringing back some useless and dangerous ones like Suella Braverman, Dominic Raab and Gavin Williamson. I don't see that ending well.
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  3761. Still harbouring the old prejudices eh? Learned nothing.
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  3762. Pimlico plumbers are expensive - charge according to time spent on the job and spend much longer than the job requires in my experience. I don't believe that's down to individual plumbers. It's happened more than once and I've heard of it happening to others as if it's company policy.
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  3763.  @levasburakovas8580  I don't watch CNN and I don't swallow propaganda from Russia either. I don't understand why Furgal was arrested. More anti-democratic actions by the Russian state it seems.
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  3764.  @TheListOf  I'm not bashing Russia, only Putin and his cronies. The real circumstances are these. (A list of Putin's opponents who were mysteriously murdered, injured, or imprisoned:  Galina Starovoitova, opposition Duma Deputy killed Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia political party, shot and killed Mikhail Trepashkin jailed after a secret trial on espionage charges. Yuri Shchekochikhin, poisoned, Russian authorities refused to allow an autopsy Mikhail Trepashkin, a former KGB spy imprisoned Mikhail Khodorkovsky, sent to Siberia Nikolai Girenko, a prominent human rights defender, shot dead in his home Paul Klebnikov, editor Russian edition Forbes magazine, shot and killed in Moscow Viktor Yushchenko, anti-Russian candidate for the presidency of the Ukraine, is poisoned by Dioxin. Andrei Kozlov, shot and killed in Moscow Anna Politkovskaya,journalist, shot and killed in Moscow. Paul M. Joyal, shot in street Stanslav Markelov Russian human rights attorney shot in the back of the head Anastasia Barburova, a young journalism student. Shot in the back of the head. Moscow. Boris Nemtsov, Russian opposition politician, shot in the streets of Moscow near the Kemlin 2015 Natalia Estemirova leading Russian human rights journalist and activist,shot and killed Nikolai Glushkov – Russian businessman in the UK who had been given asylum – strangled in England Sergei Skripal – UK former spy – double agent poisoned with Novichok 2018 Yulia Skirpal UK daughter of Sergei Skripal poisoned with Novichok 2018 Sergei Magnitsky – Accountant in USSR who was investigating and exposed tax fraud by the Russian state. Imprisoned and died in prison after being beaten up. Prosecuted by the Russian state even after his death. Maxim Borodin – journalist found dying on the ground outside his 5th floor flat Mikhail Beketov – journalist left brain damaged and later died Oleg Kashin journalist left seriously injured after an assault Tatyana Felgengauer – journalist, stabbed in the neck while at work Alexander Litvinenko. KGB defector. Poisoned with Polonium in London Alexander Perepilichnyy Boris Berezovsky 6 Russian Diplomats who have died since Trump's victory Alexander Kadakin – Russia's ambassador to India Andrey Malanan Senior Russian diplomat in Greece Vitaly Churkin Russian ambassador to the UN Denis Voronenkon Russian politician who had fled to Ukraine Migayas Shirinskiy Russia's ambassador to Sudan Pyotr Verzilov. Pussy Riot Founder. Protested with girlfriend and others at World Cup Final against police persecution while Putin was watching from the stand. Poisoned on 11 Feb 2018 after attending girlfriend's court case. Mother was blocked from seeing him. Doctors refused to explain. Alexei Navalny – opposition leader to Putin. Poisoned on a flight within Russia 20.08.20 In the Crimea UN's June 2018 Crimea report accuses the Russian Federation of grave human rights violations in Ukraine. e.g multiple cases of torture e.g. Ibrahim Mirpochchaev Crimean journalist, abducted with his father and 2 brothers. Beaten for hours, asphyxiated with plastic bags, strangled, repeatedly tasered and violated with a hard probe used to electrocute him internally. Renat Paralamov, Crimean Tartar similar tale, forced confession. Server Karametov, 76 year old with Parkinson's disease prosecuted for holding a placard in support of 70 Crimean tartars being tried for multiple simultaneous peaceful lone demonstrations. Ervin Ibragimov, Tartar leader, dragged off by men in uniform May 2016. Not seen since. Oleg Sentsov, Crimean film maker, sentenced to 20 years in gaol. Olexander Kolchenko, his assistant, sentenced to 10 years. Gennady Afanasayev beaten, suffocated, stripped, threatened with rape and jailed, to force him to testify against Oleg Sentsov. He withdrew his testimony at the trial. Nariman Memediminov, Tartar activist, forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital- a measure described by his lawyer as punitive psychiatry. Vladimir Kara-Murza, journalist and opposition activist alleged he was poisoned twice by Russian security services. He nearly died after suffering kidney failure in 2015 and two years later went into a coma for a week. Pyotr Verzilov, another Kremlin critic, accused Russia's intelligence services of poisoning him in 2018, when he fell ill after a court hearing, losing his sight and ability to speak. He too was treated by Berlin's Charité hospital, and asked the Berlin-based Cinema for Peace Foundation to arrange Mr Navalny's airlift there.)
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  3765. Jordan Peterson always looks as though he's about to burst into tears.
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  3766.  @sircxx8621  but she probably wouldn't
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  3767. Pulverised, crushed, smashed, hammered (It's quite enjoyable thinking of appropriate synonyms)
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  3768.  @stupidhumanitydeservestodi6948  The government has been underfunding the NHS at the same time as outsourcing many of the services to private providers and there are many thousands of nursing vacancies because Trusts cut down on staff when they are looking for savings.
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  3769. Is he advocating letting the pandemic rip without restraint? That would also steal years off people and more children losing parents and grandparents.
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  3770. How does she know more about Gandalf than Gandalf?
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  3771. They always find money when they want to and whose fault is it if they have no money? They've been in power for 12 years. They can't expect to constantly penalise workers for their own incompetence. The wealthy never seem to get penalised but take ever more out of the economy without putting much back. The gap between rich and poor grows ever wider under the Tories.
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  3772.  @jflax2195  I do look for myself but there's no more data out there on that at the moment. I'm keeping an eye out though. I'm sure more will come through in time. I've had one dose of the vaccine already.
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  3773.  @superted6960  I said it was surprising but of course he can vote as he wishes. That's democracy
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  3774. To all those who can't see beyond ethnicity, you are probably not Londoners.
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  3775.  @isthereanybodyoutthere9397  He'd have some choice words to describe him, I'm sure. Probably similar to what he'd say about the Prince Regent, or even Baldrick.
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  3776.  @coolhand4598  I don't think it's in any way a dominant force. You can't classify the government or the general population of Ukraine as Nazis. Nor can you kill all innocents in order to find a minority of right wingers. Putin is behaving like a Nazi himself now.
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  3777.  @coolhand4598  I've found reference to one such shopping mall in Kyiv and clearly there is some problem there and also with some of their football fans, too but that does not mean the whole of Ukrainian society can be classed as Nazi. Nazi support would not go down well in the West any more than in Russia.
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  3778. The patients aren't helped by people abandoning them though.
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  3779.  @TheNDofUO  Well if all they read is tabloid press, that's the sort of viewpoint they are being fed. If you asked them exactly what was wonderful about Margaret Thatcher, they'd probably say something very trite. She would have lost the 1983 election but for the Falklands War. She had become more unpopular until her war 'victory'. She would not let the wounded take part in the Victory parade either.
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  3780. Trump is more corrupt than anyone.
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  3781. Wouldn't it be nice to have a Native American President?
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  3782.  @superseven220  I thought the CAP was meant to support more the smaller more traditional farms to preserve a way of life in France. I think you may have shattered my illusions now :-(
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  3783.  @janicebirch7522  That's something you could campaign for if there was enough support. However it would probably be difficult and expensive to assess and keep on top of job. You'd probably need a whole department devoted to it like the tax office is devoted to tax affairs.
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  3784. Your ancestors double in number every generation you go back, so go back far enough and sooner or later everyone is bound to hit someone interesting or powerful in their genetic line. The difficulty with genealogy is finding the records to prove it, and in a sense it becomes meaningless if everyone can do this but psychologically it strikes us as being great if we are told we are descended from someone important in history.
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  3785. On Channel 4 News an ex IDF man said there was nothing to stop the IDF shooting anyone no matter who. There was no penalty and in fact they were encouraged by the government to shoot. So it doesn't seem like it was done by rogue IDF. The cars were clearly marked. The aid workers' position and route was notified to the IDF beforehand and they had permission to travel and the shooters systematically shot one car after another. It seems Israel just doesn't want food getting to Palestinians in Gaza.
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  3786.  @kanedNunable  And the French holding out.
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  3787. Wilson Wu. Second is nowhere when it comes to Putin. He does not allow effective opposition.
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  3788. That's the way to get mass views for political videos.
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  3789. Stop mouth noises such as chewing words and lip smacking. It's very distracting.
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  3790.  @richardgallagher4880  Stung by the title 'inaction man' I expect.
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  3791. People now being invited to buy what they already own as taxpayers.
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  3792. They lost the opportunity to learn from the results of the 2017 pandemic exercise and act on recommendations. That's nearly 2 years of inaction. There's a parallel with failing to take action on inflammable cladding panels before the Grenfell Tower disaster, arising from recommendations from a couple of fatal but not so big fires beforehand. There's a pattern of indifference and incompetence.
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  3793.  @klaviergavin5401  I don't see that it's like that. Once an interview is over journalists have their story. Evidence has to stand the test of time.
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  3794. Nothing seems to change when you have cloth ears.
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  3795. *affected
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  3796. Before she was Friends she was in French and Saunders TV series which she co-wrote with Dawn French, and Absolutely Fabulous TV series (which she also wrote). She was even in Roseanne before she was in Friends.
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  3797.  @paulungureanu937  Look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HzGU24ujyQ
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  3798.  @sheeple937  Every government has some form of welfare state, however small, to mitigate the effects of capitalism otherwise they realise there would be revolution or their workforce would be so sick and depleted that their economy would not compete well with others. The nature of capitalism is that it's controlled by the few capitalists and multinational corporations but the dynamics of capitalism are such that people inside of it can't work against those. For instance companies work in the interests of shareholders primarily and they promote those who maximise profits for shareholders. Only governments voted for by people can regulate them or mitigate their effects to some extent but corporations do lobby or try to 'buy' politicians and have been very successful in this by funding political parties and elections.
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  3799. You mean Satan tests the Satan.
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  3800. If the military were to split into pro and anti Trump camps, might civil war ensue?
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  3801. racist much?
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  3802. Let's hope not. It is basically a database system rather than an accounting system so not even suitable for its P.O. purposes.
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  3803.  @codyray5469  ? yes first
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  3804. *their. Probably because they are presumed innocent under English law (as is everyone), until tried and convicted.
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  3805. He has 3 nationalities. Rich men can usually buy their way in anywhere but no matter his nationality, he's still lacking in the brain department.
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  3806. Individuals as individuals have no power. They can only change things as part of a group where there is strength in numbers. That's why political parties were created.
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  3807.  @anthonykennedy5069  Yes that's true but joining together on common interests and common principles gives them more power. As far as I understand it anyone can stand in politics as an independent, but they don't often get enough votes to be elected.
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  3808. I read a report from a German visitor who used to live in Essex in the past and frequently visited London before returning to Germany. In a recent visit he commented on how improved London was now.
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  3809. How?
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  3810.  @Gr33nMamba  I see patronising as arrogant and disdainful whereas pandering is a bit like sycophancy. Falsely trying to win approval by going along with what someone is saying or asking in spite of not really believing in it.
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  3811. They are not as bad as the Tories. The Tories will do worse damage in the next 5 years if elected again. Anyone who thinks that way can't have suffered enough under the Tories.
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  3812. Islamic State say they want to be left alone and will leave others alone if so. However they are murdering other Muslims wherever they go, so what he says is not the truth.
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  3813. Ban all ridiculous comb over hairstyles.
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  3814. I can just see him as Sally Bowles from Cabaret.
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  3815. Don't be daft
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  3816. Where are the top 10 underrated actresses?
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  3817. Will you still need me, will you still feed me, Fatwa 64?
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  3818. Labour councils having to implement cuts to local government imposed by the Conservative government are getting the blame (clever of the Tories) and Conservative cuts are falling more heavily on Labour areas (clever of Tories). As the Conservatives have replaced Labour here, now the responsibility for cuts will be seen in their true colours and in the light of that experience there is a chance for voters to vote again on June 8th 2017. Read the summaries of the manifestos before voting please.
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  3819. Augsburg is pronouced Owgsburg in Germany (Ow like when you hurt yourself) and I'm pretty sure that the Fugger family name would be pronounced with a short "u" sounding more like a rude word.
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  3820. She says in a Scottish accent "you take the high road and I'll take the low road". It's a line from a traditional Scottish song ( "The Banks of Loch Lomond") which continues "and I'll be in Scotland afore ye" (before you). 
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  3821. U.K just does not "get". the Eurovision song contest. We think it's kitsch, including the winning entries so we put in kitsch entries to try and win. Trouble is that other European countries take it seriously. They really like the kind of songs that win and don't regard them as kitsch, so it's no good us not being serious about it if we want to win..
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  3822. As an example of how unreasonable government politicians are, here is a list of 71 conservative landlord MPs who voted down a Labour amendment which would have required private landlords to make sure their rented accommodation was "fit for human habitation". In total 319 Conservative MPs voted the amendment down though it seems to be the least that anyone could reasonably expect, surely? http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/the-71-tory-landlord-mps-who-voted-down.html
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  3823. Shot to look like Blackadder? What, in the sense that it's set in historical times? It would be a bit later than the setting for Blackadder II, as Queen Elizabeth is young in that, and would be old at this time.
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  3824. Only in make believe in the film. It's Cynthia Payne who did it for real.
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  3825. No. Corbyn is the opposite of Le Pen, so nothing like him.
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  3826.  Farina Marcina  It's you that's in a dream. You've dreamt up a persona for me that's very inaccurate.
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  3827. I hope everyone who wants Labour to win is going to vote today. Warm words won't do it.
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  3828. As it's an english lesson, may I point out that it's 'through it all' not 'threw it all'. 'Threw' is about throwing things. It's the past participle of 'to throw'.  You may not be bothered though.
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  3829. Truth Seekar. You haven't yet found the truth. You don't evict a whole community for the crimes of a few -otherwise every community would face eviction.
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  3830. Michael Hayes. You mean lack of integration like not standing in elections and not getting elected as Mayor, not speaking English, and by the way Khan was born in England. They seem to be criticised if they don't integrate and criticised if they do.
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  3831. Michael Hayes. I said you were ignorant because you asked what had he done for London. You should have looked it up before judging him. Of course the money he gave to homeless charities was not from his own pocket. Who has money like that unless you are a wealthy Tory? However what he spends his budget on is important for Londoners. A Tory mayor would be spending it very differently. I used to work in Southwark - a very interesting area to look around. I used to walk around it in my lunch hours to see places that Dickens and Shakespeare were associated with and the lovely Borough Market. I've lived and worked in London since my early twenties. In the East End first of all and then the North of London and the Centre. I love London. I came from a working class family. I'm not sure that they voted Labour. They may have done but it wasn't discussed. I've certainly been a Labour supported since I became politically aware at the age of 14. I didn't say you were racist. I don't know whether you are or not, but there are lots of racist people commenting on every youtube video with a black politician. You can't help but notice that.
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  3832. Cat Stevens was a pop singer really. His first hits charted in the pop charts.
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  3833. Because he had an agenda to do some useful things for ordinary Londoners and he has done some already. Certain transport fares are now cheaper or pegged. He's increased the London Living Wage and supported homeless charities. He's consulted on tackling air pollution and has plans to tackle the housing deficiency. He had a track record in local government before standing for Mayor.
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  3834. Brendan Gleeson?
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  3835. Cheryl Cole's ex (just).
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  3836. Probably the usual reason. Probably about to release a record.
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  3837. Perhaps Channel S4C will help to encourage learning of the Welsh langauge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZncHgVHAxvc
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  3838. I think it helps to speak more than one language.
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  3839. +Niamh McArdle It's a T.V series not a film.
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  3840. IsleofSkye. From your moniker it doesn't sound as though you live in London's East End either. I worked there for some years and had to visit clothing factories as part of my job. These were mostly staffed by Muslims who were always very polite and hospitable to me. I haven't walked down those streets late at night but then, as a woman, I wouldn't walk down any streets late at night unless they are well lit streets near my home.
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  3841. I worked in the Elephant and Castle area too - a very interesting area. I came to London, from elsewhere in the UK, for work reasons and I couldn't live anywhere else now being a city person. It's a pity that so many original Londoners left London but not all did. You get used to diversity. There's maybe some sense of loss for what went before but then again the past is a different country as they say. I miss diversity when I leave London now. It seems very odd to go to places where everyone is white English. I think that many people who seem to fear it most live in places where there is hardly any but I understand people's dislike of rapid change and sadness if they feel a loss of the community they knew. If they'd stayed though, it would not have been lost to them to the same extent.
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  3842. I'm more of an optimist. People do mix more and become more culturally attuned over the generations. It's a timing thing unless there are barriers against it - unemployment and racism would be barriers for instance. My background is Norman and Celtic - one that oppressed the Anglo Saxons and the other that was oppressed by the Anglo-Saxons, but there's no point getting exercised about that now is there?
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  3843. Many people also can't afford to buy a house in London but want to have one before they start a family. That's another reason to move out but I also think many of those who moved out moved for a better quality of life, better housing for their money, cleaner air, less crowded more laid back life. Fortunately we bought before the ridiculous inflation in house prices - had to save until my thirties to do so though. I don't live in the inner city -too expensive, too much concrete and noise and and too many cars - but a few miles out where it's greener. If I was a young person now I could not hope to buy anywhere in London. In a way immigrants enabled them to do that because they were ready to buy their houses at a time before it was fashionable to move into and "gentrify" some of these areas.
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  3844. bbaaalll. Why were they so angry with you?
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  3845.  @gostavoadolfos2023  Because we are good hearted? Traditionally black actors have not had so many acting opportunities in predominantly white societies, so it's about addressing that I suppose and ignoring skin colour where it's not essential to the story. In a story featuring racism, skin colour would be important otherwise the story would not make sense.
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  3846. I misread this as the top 10 sexist music videos - but perhaps it's the same thing in this case. Can't really beat 'Je t'aime moi non plus for a sexy song.
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  3847. I don't think so. He's done some good things for Londoners already - more than Boris "vanity project" Johnson ever did.
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  3848. Still happy about Brexit from a farming perspective?
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  3849. +cheesy on Saturday (KITTY D) He inherited money and went bankrupt several times with a great loss to his employees and their pension funds. He was in so much debt that his creditors had to bail him out to have any chance of getting their money back. Abraham Lincoln was not a billionaire. He came from a poor background but that does not mean he was not a good president.
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  3850. * Tin mine
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  3851. She's not that serious about it. The whole show is meant to be lighthearted and humerous.
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  3852. In part of the video not seen here, Clarke actually says he'll probably vote for May and says she's "good". A Treasury official has said to "Private Eye" that Andrea Leadsom was the worst Minister they'd had. Apparently she could not understand issues or make decisions. An experienced hand is needed for the most important negotiations on Brexit that will affect Britain's future - not a novice with an insufficient track record in government.
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  3853. JC is honest but so is Angela Eagle.
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  3854. +No1sonuk Well, most of us have had an alcoholic drink at one time or another or seen people who have and I recognise the signs.
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  3855. Simon Veri Maybe so but the results will mean the Scots will find they are cutting off their noses to spite their faces. If I'm killed in a road accident it's no comfort to me to know that I was in the right and the driver of the vehicle that killed me was in the wrong. Much better to avoid the situation if it's at all avoidable.
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  3856. Helen Trope They had very different proposals in this election. Looks like Cameron will have an overall majority. Now we'll see Conservatism without the restraints of the Lib Dems. I'm so depressed. Everything that can be sold off will be. Local government will be starved. Adult social care will be devastated Public sector will be further attacked. Tax handouts will keep the "I'm all right jack" brigade sweet on Conservatives. I don't want to think about it any more.
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  3857. Simon Veri Sorry, so depressed I sent my response to myself by accident.
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  3858. Simon Veri Labour has traditionally ben strong in London but now the Tories will continue to "cleanse" it of poorer people in the hope of removing Labour support. They won't build council houses and plan to sell off Housing Association stock. It's a disaster.
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  3859. Helen Trope Good luck to Scotland negotiating with the Tories who have an absolute majority. That's not sarcasm. I wish the Scots good luck.
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  3860. Simon Veri No simple answer. Originally from the English Midlands with Irish ancestry. Lived in the North of England at one time. I've lived in London for a long time now.
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  3861. Simon Veri P.S. Labour is a national party not a Scottish party and I think it was legitimate for them to put the No (to independence) argument if that's what they believed was best for Scotland and the rest of the U.K. There was a debate to be had. SNP put the Yes argument and others put the No argument but it was always up to the Scots themselves to decide. I can't quite understand the resentment against Labour for that.
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  3862. +scouserla1 I know about Salmond and Murdoch from "Private Eye". I feel sure Murdoch only wanted the SNP to win in Scotland so that Labour would lose the election and the Conservatives would win.
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  3863. No mention of Suzie Quatro?
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  3864. There's no evidence that the UK can't support its welfare state. You are not paying for Labour's disaster but for the worldwide collapse of the banking system in 2008. Labour's Gordon Brown, for all his faults, saved people's savings by bailing out the UK banks after the crash, but it cost the country dear. Gordon Brown also persuaded Europe and the US that they should also bailout their banks. Corbyn is not relying on a "money tree" but on more tax from wealthier citizens and corporations and also from economic growth from greater government investment. He was going to create a state investment bank. Germany's banks invest a lot more in their economy but our banks are too short sighted and risk averse when it comes to investing in the economy so all our thriving small companies and all our good inventions are bought by foreign investors these days. We don't get the benefit. Yes there are more jobs, partly because the population has increased so demand has increased but also these jobs are often part time, or zero hours, poorly paid. The rich don't always provide work. Some inherit their wealth and live on the income from investments. Also under the Conservatives a lot more money laundering from foreign crooks has gone on and much of it has gone into central London properties which are then left empty but they are now buying properties outside of London. Donald Trump gave the Carrier company in the US millions to invest in a new plant but that did not produce jobs as intended by Trump, because the company used the money to create an automated plant and they exported 1000 jobs to Mexico..
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  3865. rose ipk. The reason for increased migration was mainly because we were part of the EU and that was the rules of the EU which any party governing in the UK was legally required to follow as long as we were part of the EU. Labour investment involved using PFI schemes to build new hospitals and schools. The Crossrail project was also started under Labour. I disagree with them using PFI as it was an expensive source of income and they could have borrowed much more cheaply themselves but it would have fallen foul of EU restrictions. However those hospitals and schools were built. They invested hugely in NHS services bringing down waiting times to their lowest level and achieving the highest ever scores of patient satisfaction with the NHS before they left office. Blair wasted money on the Iraq war but the Conservatives are also prone to spending lots on war in other countries. Corbyn won't do that.
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  3866. * It's spelt "Scottish" or "Scots"
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  3867. Trump's handshake is meant to indicate "you're mine". It's cod psychology but there's no substance behind it.
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  3868. It is not intended to be a profit making organisation. That's not its purpose.
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  3869. I do know people who voted for him. Many people come to London to work and they are skilled and educated for the most part, not always, but they voted for him based on his programme and his record. It may surprise you that people pay attention to such things rather than voting for the handsomest or glibbest character or the one that shares the same bigotry and fears as happens in other places. I think London is youthful place and an optimistic place. There are areas where certain ethnic groups congregate and seem to predominate, but I don't believe there are any "no go " areas. The biggest problem in London is the level of poverty and the disparity between the poor and the rich. Khan does seem to want to do things to improve the situation, as he raised the "London living wage", put a cap on some transport fares, and made double bus journeys cheaper, as well as supporting homeless charities and having a plan to create more affordable housing and improve air pollution.
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  3870.  @DontApply89  Or perhaps to have the will to do it. Boris seems pretty enamoured of bankers and their ilk.
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  3871.  @SerBallister  Ah,they've all been reading Marx again.
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  3872. +Андрей Петров and what a great body of literature you have! :)
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  3873. No he's not to blame. The fault lies with successive governments relaxing building regulations, with the greed of cladding firms and the indifference and neglect of the local council who are the main ones responsible for local building safety and fire safety and ignored the concerns of residents. The Mayor really didn't have a role and these panels were going up all around the country not just in London
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  3874. The suspect is on record some years ago as saying he suffered from mental illness.
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  3875.  @thewomble1509  Read my words again. I did not say that. I was responding to the first comment which was sceptical about him being mentally ill and suggesting it was a media whitewash to say that. I was merely pointing out that It was the man himself who said some years ago that he was mentally ill. If you want my opinion I do think mental illness can sometimes make people kill but not always.
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  3876. Right wingers vote for Republicans whose aim is to keep their rich sponsors rich. Don't understand why they can't see that. Did people really think Trump wanted to advance anyone's interests but Trump's and his rich friends?
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  3877. These subtitles are awful. Someone says "prohibited by law" and the subtitles say the opposite - "permitted by law".
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  3878. No he's not. You must have been watching too much Fox News.
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  3879. Confesses? What a strange word to use. He is a Labour part member and candidate. It's not a confession. It's a fact. So far he has held down fares, increased the London Living Wage rate, contributed £50m to a housing project for the homeless, introduced a consultation on how to reduce air pollution. Stopped that wasteful white elephant project "The Garden Bridge" and says he intends to encourage the building of more affordable housing than more empty office blocks (which have been used as investment vehicles for foreign investors who only care that increasing property prices will increase the value of their investments, and don't care if the buildings are empty). All good in my book.
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  3880. He doesn't need re-electing yet. He still has his term of office to run.
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  3881. Merlin's aimed at younger viewers I think.
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  3882. What have people passed - their exams?
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  3883. Whether the British taxpayer or the EU bears the cost is not the point. The point is either way it's a waste of money. UKIP members often didn't even attend or do anything for their money. The reason we are out is because Cameron granted a referendum. Farage could have been moaning forever on the sidelines without that.
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  3884. +Jonathan Sullivan Subby McSubface
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  3885. +Jonathan Sullivan El shaddai's comment was posted under yours by mistake. I made a silly joke which wasn't so nice. We've since apologised to each other (see below).
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  3886. Yes, but all muscle, no brain.
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  3887. Women prefer humour, sensitivity, kindness, personality above muscle without those things.
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  3888. * Simon Russell Beale
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  3889. +Rax Raccoon It is a city according to Wikipedia.
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  3890. +Rax Raccoon Ask the US authorities.
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  3891. Probably "Sharpe" There are a number of Sharpe Series set in this period e.g "Sharpe's Rifles" Starring Sean Bean
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  3892. Just checked and Sharpe is an ITV programme rather than BBC - so it can't be that. It's a  good series though.
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  3893. This is a show whose premise is a fantasy. All things are possible in this world.
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  3894. It's a simple idea alright to provide healthcare to the whole population but that does not mean it's Utopian. It's been done in many countries, and the US is the richest country in the world isn't it?
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  3895. Billy Sunday. Good for you.
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  3896. +el shaddai Sorry, it won't be named after you.
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  3897. +el shaddai Apologies. It was just a joke - nothing personal..
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  3898. +el shaddai That's o.k. No problem. I shouldn't have said it really.
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  3899. Unfortunately in America people get shot even when they do comply - especially if they are black.
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  3900. Marky Mark. Judging by some of the comments on this video alone, I guess he gets lots of death threats, and these people are angry against any figure of authority at present. Other politicians have shaken hands but only with selected audiences. He is not pre-selecting his audiences.
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  3901. Yorkshire is known for its excellent beers. I would recommend you try Theakstons "Old Peculiar" if you are ever back there, but there's lots of choice.
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  3902. What's the point of winning if you are prepared to abandon all your principles, or pretend to, to achieve it. Such politicians gain no respect and when they are "found out" any winning streak will be short lived.
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  3903. Jihadi John had anger management problems as a schoolchild. It seems they still affect him.
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  3904. It's now called 'Toughsheet Community Stadium' which sounds awful, like 'Tough shit'
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  3905. Simon and Garfunkel took Scarborough Fair from English folksinger Martin Carthy but they never gave him any credit for a long time. Martin Carthy did not write it. It's a traditional song (anon) but Martin Carthy put the tune to the song. S&G made it up with Martin Carthy later on.
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  3906.  Kaian凯安  It was while he was married and his wife was pregnant, but be that as it may, the reason he was sacked was because Merton and Hislop thought Deayton no longer had credibility making jokes about others. He had become the butt of jokes himself.
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  3907.  @Space.Ghost.  The old ones are the best.
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  3908.  @Space.Ghost.  Yawn
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  3909. She was proved wrong about his ability to increase the labour vote, communicate and be clear. At least he was better at doing it than the Tories.
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  3910. +belialpt Those who know nothing of history are doomed to repeat its mistakes.
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  3911. +Lee Johnson That's about the level of it!
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  3912. *coarse
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  3913. The end of 'Ghost Writer' was surprising.
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  3914. I'm sure Koch is not really pronounced Coke - only in America. It's surely a name of German origin so it would be pronounced Co*k
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  3915. Piketty leaves out the relationships e,g power relationships between the groups he talks about so it seems a more palatable presentation to broad audiences than, say, Karl Marx's Capital, which does consider those dynamics.
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  3916. Why don't they trot out a robot saying "strong and stable, strong and stable, strong and stable, exterminate exterminate exterminate! Oh, perhaps they have.
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  3917. I remember when John Lydon seemed to be in favour of Trump. He seems to have done a reverse ferret now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQqdxQQ5Xtw From 1:00
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  3918. +lpuck43 As it's a British production with British and American actors it would sound a bit comical if they were trying to copy Russian accents. It's better as it is because bad attempts at Russian accents don't detract from the story. In any case the Russian nobility were known to speak French.
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  3919. No one can talk to Reagan, except through a medium. He died some years ago.
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  3920. @Ravinder Sian You mean it's slowing down now?
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  3921. @Ravinder Sian I want to leave with a deal, not no deal.
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  3922. @Ravinder Sian We'll be screwed on free trade deals by bigger nations. Trump says he's ready to deal. I'm sure he is ... on his terms, I bet he has a load of low quality food to dump on us in exchange for American companies getting a slice of NHS action. China today has cancelled a visit by the British chancellor. They are offended by plans the Ministry of Defence outlined, so don't expect any favours from them. Why would the EU give us a trade deal on easier terms than current EU terms? That would undermine the EU as other countries in the EU would leave wanting the same. There's a lot of naivety in the leave camp.
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  3923.  @stoptheworldiwannagetoff4780  We'd have to charge tariffs too under WTO rules. That will put the cost of living up for the British public. We could decide to charge zero tariffs but we can't pick and choose. Whatever tariff we charge or don't charge applies to all trading in the sector and it would kill off our manufacturing and farming as they wouldn't be able to compete on price with those countries who produce their goods more cheaply because their workers have no rights and are paid peanuts. Also 80% of our economy is based on services and 49% of those are sold to the EU but under a hard Brexit, there would be no 'passport' arrangements for those to be sold to the EU. Other trading blocks further away from us are less likely to want our services which they can get from others closer to them and will already have. Why don't you look into this from source material?
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  3924. Henry VIII was said to have eaten Turkey and that was earlier than the Pilgrims. Where did that come from I wonder. Were they brought over from America?
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  3925. It's pronouced paj ant (with a short a in both syllables).
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  3926. She said it's 'one of the best'. Not 'the best', not 'her favourite'.
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  3927. Someone can have more than one issue, more than one health problem.
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  3928. Yep. I accept what you say. I think if they are talking about civilisations that most influenced us Greek is up there and comes before Roman though the Romans influenced us a lot too.
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  3929. The Labour party a communist party? A ha ha ha ha! What ignorance! Some far right parties in Europe have Nazi views and by the way far right parties aren't usually tolerant of people with long hair. You really are a prize twerp and why do American youtubers waffle so much before getting to the point?
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  3930. +Elis de Waard We get things for the tax like free healthcare, free education, defence, police etc etc. Americans still have to pay for healthcare, they just do it in different ways and the corporations rip you off far more unfairly than any government because they seek to make a profit and there are so many of them there are no efficiencies of scale so far more of the money goes on admin. If a party is voted in in a democracy it means the majority or people have decided that want to pay that way. The communist theory is that they will come to power after a revolution and will take over all property. That's very different.
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  3931. +Elis de Waard That's your experience of government not mine. It seems a power for good enabling us as a community to look after the weakest in society. People who earn more paying more is called "fairness" here. Each to his own. You stick with your system. I prefer mine. No need for you to interfere.
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  3932. Just to change the subject from people's apparent obsession with the colour of an actresses skin......If he were alive today I imagine Shakespeare would be writing about the chaos of Brexit and the recent UK election results. It's a bit like the wars of the roses played on a micro scale in Parliament with most of the "bloodshed" happening behind the scenes.
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  3933. Katheryne Koelker. What you say is true. I know that happens. I've seen these plays several times. I was just commenting on the specific point you made about this particular incident between Margaret and the Duchess and the significance of it in the scheme of things.
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  3934. The Exorcist, Psycho, Frenzy, The Silence of the Lambs.
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  3935.  @dannyputra1908  *Such as who
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  3936. +Andy Kapinos Hugh Laurie is British. Not sure why he is adopting an American accent here. Perhaps the character he is playing is American or they think it will sell better in America that way.
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  3937. +Katherine Todders His accent sounds American or at least mid-Atlantic in the trailer.
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  3938. Well the location is in UK and the landlords are public sector landlords. Where else does public money come from? Perhaps the private sector firms involved will be fined after the Public Inquiry Results come out, but if the building regulations were so slackened that they allowed for it, then they may escape penalty.
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  3939. I think his whole point is NOT to recycle failed policies in a failing system but that's about it, it seems. Not much hope there. "Embrace the hopelessness" is his advice.
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  3940. Makes perfect sense to you. Sounds like a trite insult to me.
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  3941. Princeofexcess. It depends how you define efficiency and whether efficiency is the prime objective of societies. Efficiency does not always equate to fairness, justice, social cohesion, community, social harmony and happiness.
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  3942. Willie Gordon. I said nothing about Freud and Darwin. You comments don't make sense and don't seem rational so there's no point in addressing them further.
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  3943. princeofexcess. Almost the purest capitalism occurred in Victorian times and before, when there was little or no state intervention in markets. That produced a huge amount of poverty and misery although the economy was booming at times but the distribution of wealth was so unequal that those that created wealth often fell into poverty as soon as they were laid off work which happened quite frequently. Scandinavian countries which have the most state intervention, and have closer equality of incomes score highest in the world in surveys on happiness. They are also prosperous societies
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  3944. princeofexcess You say "correlation does not equal causation" That's true of all assertions about social sciences including economics and politics because it's not possible to do controlled experiments as with pure sciences. So it's just as true about the assertions you are making about "pure capitalism". However what distinguishes scandinavian countries is their taxation regimes which are designed to reduce inequalities of income and these fund a greater welfare system, than say in the USA or China. The fact that there is such a correlation between those types of regimes and higher positions on the happiness index is something to take account of. In fact there's a correlation in the wider world too, in that democracies that have less inequality are generally happier than those that have greater inequality. Inequality is increasing in capitalist countries whose governments are not acting to stem or reduce it. For instance it has been said that in the USA workers generally have not had a real terms increase in wages since the 1970s. In the UK, since the advent of a governments whose policies have been to reduce the state welfare system and the public sector generally and be less interventionist, the gap between rich and poor has been growing and wages for the poorest have been pretty stagnant. You have to take into account globalisation of the economy also. The competition for richer countries now, is from countries that pay their workers very low wages in first world terms. It's hard for national governments to isolate their countries from these effects because capital investment can be moved around the world to wherever costs are lowest and profits highest. It's interesting that Trump is trying to do something about this in the USA (or says he is) because his stated proposals are "interventionist".
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  3945. princeof excess Fairness is not about all being the same. There's just masses of evidence about poverty and misery in Victorian times (before the creation of the welfare state) when the British economy was expanding and booming. You only have to google. Here is one example https://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/articles/poverty.html. There's also a lot of research evidence showing that societies where the gap between rich and poor is higher are more unhappy than those where the gap is smaller. If happiness is not important to you, or you are content that some people have enough wealth to make them happy, that's up to you. No one is forcing anything on anyone. It's all to do with persuasion and democratic choice.
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  3946. Your example of the middle ages is not a good one. In the middle ages capitalism was just beginning in a small way. The middle ages is categorised more by feudalism rather than capitalism. You say life was miserable because "life was miserable back in the day" ? That's no explanation at all. You say it would be even more miserable "if the economic system would not be so capitalistic" . Well, no. There were non capitalistic countries that were not as miserable as capitalist ones as Gaughin and Robert Louis Stevenson found when they visited places like Tahiti and Samoa which they liked so much they decided to stay. Capitalism starts out allowing social mobility but it has a tendency towards monopoly and the accumulation of most of the capital in fewer and fewer hands so it does increase inequality eventually unless deliberate state intervention acts to reduce that tendency. There's no reason why happiness should be a "dumb goal" once societies have reached a certain level of development and sophistication. Your example of "democracy" is quoting something illegal. I never advocated illegality and I'm not talking about democracy on a micro scale, but the right of everyone in a society to vote for their government. The best thing about capitalism, to my mind, is that it involves a growth and rapid spread of technology which has resulted in great advances in such areas as healthcare, but it needs democratic control by governments otherwise all the benefits end up unevenly distributed. For instance in the USA there are many people who have no healthcare cover. Though Obamacare reduced the number of those without, it still didn't cover everyone and now Trump is trying to reverse that, or, failing that, work towards ensuring it will fail over time.
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  3947. Frustratingly short on detail and specifics in covering the main topic of hygiene. Some specific examples would be useful instead of just saying wow it was so different and we wouldn't want to stay for long in the same room with most people from the 18th century.
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  3948. Public school bully
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  3949. +Matthew McBurnett It's a song that meant something to her so she sang it with real feeling and that comes across.
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  3950. +Matthew McBurnett No, I'm not interpreting.. I'm aware she said that her great grandmother was caught up in the ethnic clearances of Stalin and this song is dedicated to her.
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  3951. The Brexit vote has exposed the fault lines in the Labour Party. Milliband while leader changed the system for electing a leader. Corbyn was elected with support of the members of the Labour Party but there were a lot of disappointed Blairite MPs still in the party who did not support him. The other thing is that he may be good on policy but Corbyn seems to lack leadership skills and even many MPs who are not Blairites just think he isn't good enough at doing his job. They also fear an early election and that Corbyn won't resonate with people in the Midlands and North of England and some other areas outside of London.
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  3952. +TheOelun Do you mean Bezukhov? (not sure of the spelling). Bolkonsky is quite a reserved character.
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  3953. +You Yuber AND PEACE :)
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  3954. TheDogonebad Ah. UKIP supporter. That explains a lot. Actually our area was one of the very few that voted for the proportional  representation voting system. Everyone else voted against or thought it a bore. I bet they regret that now. They did not foresee the rise of UKIP at the time or the risk that coalitions would become the norm anyway. 
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  3955. TheDogonebad P.S UKIP are scary and change their policies every week it seems.
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  3956. Helen Trope FYI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum,_2011
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  3957. TheDogonebad  BBC would say they are not pro or anti any party as I'm sure their charter requires them to be objective but its their job to tease out what it is that UKIP believes in. People who want to protest by voting UKIP don't realise that UKIP is not necessarily what they think it is. It's more right wing than the Tories. It changes its policies from week to week when the public questions any of them so no one can be sure what they will do in power. Many people who would vote for them as a protest party would suffer under their policies. However I'm not going to engage in a fruitless debate on UKIP which gets nowhere. People will do what they do. I believe UKIP will be  getting debate time in the major TV election debates so they will have as much exposure then as the bigger parties.
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  3958. No facts have been given in support of this allegation e.g. no quoting of research on how BBC presents things, use of language etc so it's just opinion in this discussion. There is no such thing as non-biased presentation. It does not exist, because there is no such thing as absolute objectivity. There's always some bias even if it's not intentional. You can only judge something in terms of more or less - where it falls on the spectrum of bias and compared to other media the BBC has a worldwide reputation for doing well on that front.  You can go on forever quoting particular instances of suggested bias (which actually isn't even happening in this discussion) but that in itself is not an objective measure of bias so please stop going on and on about it when it's just opinion.
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  3959. TheDogonebad  For every viewpoint expressed the BBC is obliged by its rules to seek a viewpoint from the other side. That's how the BBC aims to achieve "balance" and "fairness". I think its "balance" is monitored externally. Therefore the BBC would have been obliged to seek Muslim views. Not all Muslims will have the same views either. I think it was precisely to avoid the accusation of bias that they did the 50% thing. It may not have been the most sensitive thing to do at the time, but I think they would have felt their duty of "balance" obliged them t do it. You'd have to ask the BBC for a definitive answer.
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  3960. None of those parties with a chance of forming a government because parties have all worked out that to get enough votes to form a majority government in our "first past the post" system,  they have to have "wide appeal" and appeal to the centre. Also the working class and poor group does not all vote the same way. Their vote is split.  Many do not vote at all. Of those who do vote, they vote for who they think will be best for them but they are often persuaded by spin. Long term goals of parties are different  and they will seek to work towards them without openly offending the centre.  Labour believes in having a reasonable sized state to help those who are disadvantaged and working towards more equality in society . The Tories want to shrink the state and let the disadvantaged rely on charity,  if they can get it. They are not bothered about the growing gap between the rich and the rest. Neither will go into too much detail about what they will do to achieve their goals for fear of losing votes and losing wider appeal.  As neither party seems able to get a clear majority, smaller parties will hope to hold the balance of power but that risks instability. Maybe ultimately we'll need to move to a proportional representation system but people voted against that recently. Also working class and poor people need to vote more to maximise their influence. We probably need more education  about politics but I can't see that happening any time soon. 
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  3961. He speaks English. He is English. You mean different from what you perceive to be standard English.
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  3962. Keren Mertle. If it came on like this, it hurt, you experienced a tightening feeling in the chest and you were breathless, go to a doctor and get checked out. There may be some physical cause that can and should be treated. Don't ignore it. Anxiety and panic may not be the cause, or may not be the whole cause.
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  3963. Boris is just showing off.
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  3964. It's very clever and quite accurate in many references to Shakespeare. If you know and like Shakespeare's stuff it helps, but it wears its learning lightly.
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  3965. A hybrid system, is known as a "mixed economy". First world economies are all mixed to some extent (capitalism moderated by democractic state intervention, also known as socialist elements). There are different balances in these economies in terms of how much or how little state intervention there is. America is on the low end of the continuum because it doesn't have universal healthcare (for example) and it has fewer workers' rights than many other wealthy countries.
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  3966. It's not that the world is getting poorer but the gap between rich and poor is growing. The distribution of wealth is more skewed towards the wealthiest.
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  3967. Ahem. Goldsmith is standing up for self interest not ecology He doesn't object to a third runway elsewhere does he? The Lib Dem candidate in this by-election was also against expansion of Heathrow. The difference between the candidates was their views on Brexit.
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  3968. one of the sonnets
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  3969. Can't believe you're not impressed by it. I have only passed it a few times but it's exciting and magnificent every time catching that first glimpse of it, and it's great that it's for the North. There's nothing to match it elsewhere in the UK - nothing quite like it. It's also appropriate as it has a kind of industrial look but one that's rusting. It should be a matter of pride. Florence has its David, Paris has its Mona Lisa and The North of England has its Angel. Cool! The other thing is that you're on a featureless boring piece of motorway then suddenly there's this amazing welcoming and protective feature that lets you know you've arrived in the North and there's something benign guarding it. If people there don't value it, give it to the South and we'll rename it Angel of the South :-)
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  3970. Fox News is what  news in the U.K would be like if  Murdoch had his way. He's always campaigning against the BBC and their licence funding. If there's only commercial TV competing against each other on news, this is what you get - the lowest common denominator.
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  3971. You've maybe not experienced some of the songs inflicted on the U.K such as 'The Birdy song' or 'Floral Dance' by Terry Wogan. He can't even sing so he speaks it. Then there was 'Ernie' The fastest milkman in the west.
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  3972. "woman" not "women" which is plural.
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  3973. +Mike Rees Everyone who voted did not vote for this government and plenty of people did not vote at all.
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  3974. Macron is not pronounced Ma Crone. The "on" part of his name is pronounced like on in English but sounded nasally and with a silent n.
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  3975. I understood what you wrote. You did not understand what I wrote. Let's leave it there.
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  3976. I wouldn't know whether it's nice to be a protected class with special privileges since I've never been in such a class. I'm not suing. I'm retired. I worked in the public sector where pay is equal but promotion isn't and women still fall behind in earnings once if they break their career to have a family. It doesn't sound as though you get on with women very well.
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  3977. Also Hitler, Stalin, the leader of ISIS, the leader of Boko Haram. What about the 10 best humans of all time? 
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  3978. In no particular order I would include 1984, Catch 22, One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, Oliver Twist, The Jungle, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Lord of the Rings, Far From the Madding Crowd. It's hard to judge what are the greatest novels but those are some of my favourites. I see people have made comments about Shakespeare but this video is about novels. Shakespeare didn't write novels. Novels weren't invented then. He wrote plays.
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  3979. +cameron denchfield Really? I always thought itwas about brotherly love.
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  3980. +Panthera It's a T.V. programme
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  3981. The "alternative" history is an anti-semitic version from the Nazi view of history.
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  3982. Nazi alert!
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  3983.  @TheWeepingDalek  It's not as if they had a choice and Napoleon was hardly a democrat either. Still no choice.
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  3984. 'would've' (contraction of would have)  Not 'would of'
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  3985. Hospitals force you to be naked.
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  3986. Was he putting up a fight or were his body jerks an iinvoluntary response to the tasering?
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  3987. Bee Low I'm not laughing. This is tragic.
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  3988. Some of the most memorable scenes are: The Spanish Inquisition scene, the dead parrot sketch, the charity collector and the merchant banker, the upper class twit race, the funniest joke of all time sketch,  the argument sketch and the communist quiz sketch - also Michael Palin playing a very oily TV front man. They were all in the TV series - if they are in a film it would be 'And now for something completely different' I guess.
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  3989. splinterbyrd. I remember Angharad Rees as quite petite, not buxom and remember her being quite "knowing" at times. You gotta remember that Demelza is meant to be quite streetwise. I'm sure most people were slim in those times. Not enough food and money to get fat and plenty of manual work to do.
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  3990. I think this counts as libel should he wish to sue.
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  3991. The position of the arm shots would suggest he had his arm up and facing forward at the time..  This would be the case if his arms were up to surrender. When the arms are down those parts of the arms are normally facing inwards towards the body and not facing someone in front of him.
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  3992. Mans Zelmerlow's "Heroes" not even mentioned!!!!
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  3993. +Jordan H I was just correcting an error not devising a policy, but since you ask I'd make the rich offshore tax avoiders pay for it by closing tax loopholes. I'd reverse the cuts in corporation tax and capital gains tax that the government keeps making and use that also.
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  3994. +Jordan H We don't know the breakdown of that tax take. Osborne has put additional taxes on property (transactions and property held by foreigners, and inheritance tax thresholds were not uprated for many years). Property can't be moved so it would be interesting to know how much of the rise in tax take came from property taxes rather than from lowering other more avoidable taxes.
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  3995. +Jordan H The UK wants to tax people whose businesses are in the UK or profits from trade in the UK where the profits are squirrelled abroad to avoid tax. The UK does have the right to tax the UK citizen if they have taxable income. I've no idea why you think they don't have that right. As for taxing the rich more than any other people - quite right if that's so. The income of the rich is going up far more than that of the poor and the gap between rich and poor is ever widening. The rich get richer by holding down the wages of the working poor who create their profits and by laying them off whenever they feel like it.
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  3996. +Jordan H I was thinking more about company profits which are often "converted" into losses (and thus avoiding tax) by companies by using them to pay artificial loans from another part of the company in a different country. There are other tax avoidance mechanisms too.
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  3997. +Jordan H Yes, but the rich include corporations also. The Tories keep saying they have closed more loopholes than anyone else but they are still leaving plenty for themselves and their chums. Read "Private Eye" which frequently outlines the sort of tax loopholes the Tories are not touching and how they have made things easier for the avoiders in some ways. You have to distinguish between what they say and what they do. It may come as a surprise to you but politicians, particularly in this government, don't always tell the truth. Cameron's background in PR helps with fooling people.
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  3998. Since there has been a conservative government, not a socialist one, in the UK since 2010, what are you talking about?
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  3999. Would you rather deal with a robot than a human being? Is that what you voted for?
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  4000. There should separate lines for those who don't mind being served by robots which are rules based without human sympathy or empathy. Good luck speaking to a robot if your bank account has been hacked.
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  4001. gog 1284. Yes
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  4002. Birmingham is generally acknowledged as the second  city in the UK after London (though Manchester also claims that title on some criteria). The government of the UK is a Tory lead coalition (nearest equivalent in the the US is the Republican Party). Can you imagine the UK government allowing its second city to be a no-go area for non-Muslims. A nanosecond of thought about that allegation should have raised doubts.
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  4003. Englishman not Englishmen. You can't be more than one person. LOL
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  4004. British elections are not just about choosing the P.M. Elections choose the governing party and the leader of that party automatically becomes P.M. Many people may make their choice based on who the leader is, or which national party they favour, but basically they are voting for an MP in their local constituency.
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  4005. The Rational National. My comment was not addressed to you but it was in response to the guy on the video who says the UK is electing their P.M.
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  4006. The election of a London Mayor is a matter for Londoners and no one else. Elsewhere in the UK you can vote for your own local politicians and Londoners are not going to tell you who you should or shouldn't vote for.
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  4007. Ron Weasley does not exist you know. He is a fictional character.
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  4008. Also, anything by Chas & Dave
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  4009. It does take about a month to get over the effects of pneumonia but I suspect that Trump also has that effect on people.
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  4010. She's only answering the questions she was asked and she's entitled to an opinion just like anyone else.
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  4011. Milliband, before the election clearly stated that he would not hold a referendum so if Labour was in power now we'd still be in the EU.
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  4012. As they used to say on a certain talent show... vote, vote vote, cos your vote counts!
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  4013. +MAK G6 vitamin D is important for bones, heart and memory.
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  4014. There's a funny old comedy sketch in England where one character selling insurance says to a prospective client, "You don't seem to understand the way insurance works - you pay us lots of money" Yes" says prospective client, waiting for further explanation about benefits etc. "That's it!" says the insurance agent.
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  4015. Sheep won't let you pet them if they can run away. They are naturally shy creatures.
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  4016. There are no old or foreign films included. The ending of the British film "The Third Man" is good and the ending of the 1969 French film "Z".
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  4017. monokhem It requires tremendous co-ordination and skill to play soccer (football) to world class standard - that's why all good footballing countries start training children at a very young age but you also have to have passion for the sport to do it well. 
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  4018. monokhem You did not really get my point or take in what I was saying. It's easy to play but hard to be good at it unless you develop the skills and co-ordination. The U.S is not so good at it. It does not win any international trophies in football (or soccer as you call it). Maybe that's because they assume it's easy and give up on it too early.
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  4019. +Scott Wolfe You are a gullible idiot ....fact
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  4020. +Thomas Mccauley You do not have any logic to be lost on me. Did you think I was agreeing that Obama is a Muslim? I was not. I think maybe your comment should be aimed at Scott Wolfe.
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  4021. Other stuff was going on at the same time. Leadson was resigning from the leadership bid and the journos went there.
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  4022. The s in Cleese is pronounced as the s in Cheese. The narrator keeps mispronouncing is as a soft s.
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  4023. This video has been edited. In a longer version Clarke also says May is "good" and says he'll probably vote for her.
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  4024. You haven't read Labour's manifesto which commits to coming out of Europe - respecting the Referendum vote. It's not great to argue from a point of ignorance. It spreads more ignorance.
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  4025. Generalised prejudiced comments RU. At least he's not scared to turn up and meet angry people unlike most politicians.
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  4026. Art of Street work out. North Korea probably has better care than Trumpcare. Almost anywhere has better care than those proposals except for deprived third world countries.
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  4027. This seems like giving in to bullies really. I'd rather she kept her ears as they were in defiance of the bullies. Now the surgeon is suggesting more work to make her look more average. Terrible. She's a pretty girl and young people often don't realise how beautiful their natural appearance is and that it gives them individuality..
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  4028. It's classic "divide and rule" tactics, but maybe one day people will see through it.
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  4029. Udendran Mudaliyar. The first laugh is because FO can stand for Foreign Office or a very rude term meaning go away. The second laugh is because FFS can also stand for a very rude term implying exasperation.
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  4030. * paid
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  4031. The other way they reduced fire safety regulations was to avoid updating them. There was a fire in South London about 6 or 7 years ago in which 6 people died. The spread of the fire was blamed on the external cladding and the coroner recommended to government politicians that the fire regulations should be updated to deal with this, but the government dragged its heels and never did it. They were even pressed, many times, to do it by a Parliamentary Committee on Fire Safety, and still they did not do it and have no schedule for doing it today. External cladding has been used in recent times to "refresh" the look of old buildings to make them look nicer. In Kensington where Grenfell Tower is, the rich and poor live near each other and the council wanted to make the view of the Tower better for the richer residents who could see it from their residences.
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  4032. "Be nice" - code for "Don't ask me any difficult questions".
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  4033. +Alex R Myr GPs will see someone the same day if it's urgent. You just have to let them know and turn up early. Many people go to A&E for things that their GP could deal with and at A&E people are seen in order of priority - determined by how serious their problem is. The last Labour government had maximum 4 hour waiting targets at A&E, cancer diagnosis and treatment targets and other targets which were achieved by the NHS. This current Conservative government has done a massive and costly re-organisation of the NHS which has allowed NHS funding to be given to some private providers. It's not increased NHS funding in line with inflation. It abolished many waiting time targets for the NHS and there are many more elderly people in our ageing population now. As there's not enough funding for social care, the elderly often can't be released from hospital when they need to, and that increases waiting times generally. The government has also blocked a report that covers recommended staff ratios for patients. There are staff shortages and hospitals often have to use agency staff which is not ideal and they cost the hospital much more than permanent staff. This government says it supports the NHS but it appears to be wrecking it. Private hospitals don't have A&E care so if anything goes wrong there, patients are swiftly transferred to the NHS. We need the NHS to be good even when people choose to go private.
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  4034. The landlords in the case of Grenfell Tower were the local Tory council. Khan arrived in office as Mayor of London in May 2016, 2 months after the last period referenced in the website comment.
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  4035. Not at all.
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  4036. +Queen Elizabeth II This was made by the BBC.
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  4037. Leonado Da Vinci's spiked up modern hairstyle. Lol
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  4038. No. Probably just in disagreement with you and your views.
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  4039. Very few if any national railways are profitable. They can only work as a subsidised service, best as a public subsidised service so everything can be planned, co-ordinated and streamlined to be most effective and passenger focussed.
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  4040. Logan Cox. And Yul Brynner played the King of Siam. Marlon Brando played a Mexican (Emiliano Zapata) and Laurence Olivier blacked up to play Othello as did Orson Welles. Mark Rylance played Olivia in Twelfth Knight, Kevin Costner played Robin Hood with an American accent. Drama is about the "suspension of disbelief". Margaret of Anjou was a "foreigner" being French and the English resented her taking control of the Lancastrian side in the War of the Roses. The actress can be seen as a metaphor for that "foreignness" as well as being an excellent actress in the part.
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  4041. Jakub Tyl. But that would look ridiculous these days. It's such an old fashioned and out of date approach. It's a drama not a history and Shakespeare never troubled to be particularly accurate with history. He changed some things for dramatic effect or to please his sponsors. It's a very good production and people are missing the enjoyment of it by allowing themselves to be prejudiced against it before even watching it.
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  4042. Jakub Tyl. Ah well! You will miss a good production for the sake of your annoyance - so be it. Your loss.
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  4043. Re Blackadder. You mean an alternative history where Richard III won the battle of Bosworth - not Henry III.
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  4044. *dissolve
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  4045. HeartlandRanchTV. Merkel is a democrat unlike Putin
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  4046. It's none of your business if you are not a Londoner, is it?
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  4047. This isn't exactly typical. It's probably the only escape. What about other places in Gaza. Why be so selective?
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  4048. Hamas is vicious, so is the Israeli government.
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  4049. The point is to keep rogues and megalomaniacs like Trump or Boris out of the top spot.
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  4050. We should have flood alarms.
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  4051.  @joshhamilton3647  If not , there will be a second lock down. Better to do it properly once than to have to keep doing it, prolonging the restrictions.
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  4052.  @hanoitripper1809  Throne not throan
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  4053.  @fonzisalgado512  *cost
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  4054. On my birthdays I started a habit of going for walks in central London. I remember visiting an area near The Old Mitre pub that had lots of Tudor and medieval history and it was said that strawberries were grown there. The land belonged to the Bishop of Ely. This would have been in the 16th century and maybe going further back. I wonder what the strawberries would have looked and tasted like in those times. At the time I didn't think about it but just imagined they would have been like modern day strawberries. 'In Shakespeare ’s Richard III, Gloucester tells the Bishop of Ely: " My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there. I do beseech you, send for some of them ".
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  4055.  @roberthicks1612  No, if we all die out over co2 it will be because we can't breathe or it's too hot to survive. Your statement isn't logical. If the 'real science' says there's no risk, then whether I see it or not, people will not die out.
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  4056.  @roberthicks1612  Humans have been able to live in deserts up to now because their skin and bodies are adapted as is their clothing and way of living but if it gets much hotter who knows? At the same time as humans live in deserts, humans die of heat stroke in places like Greece, so less adapted humans are less likely to survive hostile weather. Besides there's a toxic cocktail of global warming and pollution . If the creatures and organisms at the bottom of the food chain die out, those for whom they are a source of food will also starve and so on up the food chain. People may die more from disease from pollution and become less fertile so even if the human race survives in some form, the Earth won't be such a pleasant or sustaining place to live and the human race may get more sickly. I would love to think this guy is right and there's nothing to worry about but I can't believe that just because it makes me feel better. The world also seems to be cranking up hostility levels among nations and war may be the next nearest threat. There's no room for complacency and if global warming scientists predictions are right, there's only a short time to try and reduce the man made effects. Myself I think we're all doomed because men and some world leaders will refuse to do enough to make a timely difference.
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  4057.  robert hicks  All I will say finally is 'Time will tell' and 'We shall see'. We will if we live long enough that is.
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  4058.  robert hicks  The 'liberals' in revolutions were not trying to get people to give up their rights but to gain rights for themselves and the wider society e.g. no taxation without representation etc. Revolutions have happened where there is no democracy. You have such a skewed understanding of history based on what you'd like it to be to serve your agenda that I don't think a rational discussion can be held with you. You will just deny facts when they don't suit your purpose and prejudices. So I've finished debating now. It's pointless with you.
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  4059.  @baronvillanueva8097  Don't be silly. Liberals are adaptable too, but there are some things that are unsurvivable and some things that will be highly unpleasant for anyone who survives.
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  4060.  @fastasfox  necerselery - my favourite vegetable.
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  4061. What? It's been all over the news including the BBC. I've seen it on the BBC online.
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  4062.  @chrisstone5743  I'm sure I've seen it as headline news at the time when the EU invoked article 16 and tried to reduce the supply of vaccines to NI. The EU quickly backed down from that though, so it soon dropped out of the headlines. Continuing to report on it after that would just be gloating over the EU's mistakes. The BBC doesn't do gloating. Plenty of other media do that.
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  4063. More virus spreading.
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  4064. Reform is the voice of Farage, voice of the wealthy and business masquerading as the voice of the people.
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  4065. @Dearly Diane I don't know if the US is like the UK in this, but this question came up in the UK and the UK Treasury said it does not accept voluntary donations of taxes, only the tax that is due, so if someone sent more on a voluntary basis the Treasury would return it.
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  4066. Just stay and vote this government out.
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  4067.  @commiehunter7964  Are you the illegitimate child of Boris? You seem to share his viciousness?
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  4068.  @edwardcullen1739  All Departments are impartial. I know. I worked for one. As soon as the government changes the civil service works out what the new government wants and seeks to give it to them, but they can't do the impossible or break the law.
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  4069.  @edwardcullen1739  Politicians don't seem to want to be accountable at all. Attacking the civil service in this way is like having servants and kicking them about when you smashed your glass to smithereens and the servants can't put it back looking like new by the next day. Come to think of it, Boris does rather look like Nero.
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  4070.  @chickenandmushroompotnoodl3180  Well, you know me not. I never believed myself superior. I only wanted to serve the public but public service is anathema to some people it seems.
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  4071.  @MrNed09  Would you care to tell me which media channels are a beacon of truth and a shining light of impartiality? I've a feeling your suggestions will give me a good laugh.
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  4072.  @MrNed09  I do do my own research and don't take things at face value. I'm not gulled by people with an agenda.
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  4073.  @danieloliver4558  How would you know?
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  4074.  @honisoitquimalypense1316  Not totally but they have been more impartial, knowledgeable and factual than channels like Fox News, and Newspapers like The Sun and The Daily Mail. The Daily Mail was assessed against impartial fact checking sites and found to be the most misleading newspaper of all UK newspapers.
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  4075.  @chickenandmushroompotnoodl3180  I think the Gilets Jaunes just went off the boil as far as the media were concerned. If things go on too long without conclusion the media tends not to report on them so much. The same is true for Hong Kong and the same was true for Northern Ireland. At the moment in France the strikes and protests are about Macron's pension reforms. That's a more specific issue than the Gilets Jaunes protest. In the UK we tend not to protest so much about cuts. We vote in a government that believes in cuts.
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  4076.  @MrNed09  I think that's absolutely wrong and I have experienced that that is wrong during my lifetime. There certainly is a difference between left and right policies and Labour and Tory governments. People may be judging by Tony Blair's time in office. He was more centrist and a great admirer of Margaret Thatcher. It was like having a Tory Lite in charge of the Labour Party, but even he did a number of good things that the Tories would never have done. I have always voted.
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  4077.  @edwardcullen1739  The CS is not accountable to the public. Ministers are accountable to the public. Civil Servants aren't voted for by the public and Ministers are, that's why Ministers are accountable. The civil service is accountable to Ministers via a performance management system and they can be sacked if they break the civil service code. I don't know about the fraud cases you mentioned, but that would be a management failure if they were allowed to continue. Universal Credit isn't that simple. Things that have held it up is include the development of an adequate IT system, and adequate trained staff to deal with the system IT system. It's meant to deal with a lot of different circumstances for different individuals and be capable of keeping them up to date. It doesn't bother me about shaking up the civil service. If they don't do it well it won't work. You can't be at war with your staff and at the same time expect them to endlessly pull out all the stops. I don't know how things are now (I can only imagine) but when I was there a lot of overtime was worked for free - just to get things done- because staff were committed and there was a lot of good will. It doesn't work if you constantly kick staff like that.
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  4078.  @chickenandmushroompotnoodl3180  I think the Scandinavian model would work in the UK though it would probably be difficult to persuade people with all the propaganda that would be poured out against it - a bit like trying to persuade Americans that a NHS type system would work there. The propaganda against it seems too strong. The vested interests in government don't want it and the media are largely their mouthpieces. I don't think I will suffer as much under this government as the younger generation will. Things could turn around quickly though if it all goes pear shaped -either that or people will turn on and scapegoat each other and I think things could get very nasty. I hope not. Labour governments have not always been a disaster. The 1945 government created the NHS and built lots of housing. Harold Wilson kept us out of Vietnam and created the Open University. Tony Blair achieved peace in Northern Ireland with the Good Friday Agreement. Gordon Brown was there during the worldwide banking crash of 2008 and he persuaded the EU and the US to prop up the banking system -saving capitalism worldwide from a deep crisis of confidence and allowing recovery. The crash was a result or deregulation of financial service and the Tory view had been that they wanted even more deregulation than there was.
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  4079.  @MrNed09  I don't believe that all politicians don't give a damn about people. At local level I've known councillors that do give a damn, and the Labour Party certainly has quite a lot of working class MPs who are burning to deal with social injustices, but unfortunately the country votes those who don't care into power. Bringing control to a more local level (having exited the EU) won't make this lot more caring.
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  4080.  @edwardm9227  No just disagreeing with you.
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  4081.  @valeriestrojan624  Good.
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  4082.  @nigelrobson505  A pig can call itself a dog but that does not make it a dog.
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  4083. ex nurse, you see.
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  4084. I googled when did (an artist) write a lyric and Google asked me did I really mean "when did they wrote it". Google is illiterate and is spreading illiteracy.
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  4085. I heard Trump's grandfather earned his money being a brothel keeper in the Yukon during the gold rush.
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  4086.  @KS-ol6wi  I imagine there will be lots more life insurance payouts because of Covid 19 now. Who knows what they might give rise to?
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  4087. When the Nazis came to power in Germany, I realised all that mattered to them in terms of followers was belief, zealousness, and obedience. Brains didn't matter so a lot of stupid gullible and nasty people got into positions of power with them, and that was one reason they were very appealing to gullible, stupid and nasty people and the same happens with any fascist force anywhere it arises, and they seek to smash people with awareness, brains, intelligence and compassion who stand in their way
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  4088. He doesn't like you altering your facial appearance.
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  4089. @Playford Seven Some worsening of symptoms, if they happen, may not happen for 2 weeks so it's too early to tell yet if he's escaped with a light dose.
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  4090. The police said it was a matter for HMRC and HMRC said she didn't owe them anything (or words to that effect).
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  4091.  @unitysprings3631  Definitive.
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  4092.  @Teetea2973  The British were invaders rather than refugees, taking people's lands by force and undoubtedly killed far more people in that process than immigrants to Britain have killed.
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  4093.  @sharnachristina7504  Maybe you could emigrate to Australia. According to Australians they have lots of Pommie whingers already so you might feel more at home there.
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  4094.  @ravenmad9225  Poland is rather anti-immigrant as is Hungary. Hungary's also not very liberal and is pro Putin but if that's what you enjoy, bon voyage.
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  4095. Certain Tories have always been good at faking sincerity but Liz Truss does not need to do that. She's genuinely sincerely stupid.
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  4096. Putin has no heart.
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  4097.  @syncj838  You don't prepare by being quiet.
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  4098. SaltyOutlaw A large number of Labour members voted Corbyn leader in the same way that a large number of Conservative members voted Boris Johnson as Tory leader. No difference there, except that Corbyn has faced a general election. Boris Johnson hasn't yet face one, though I think all the giveaways he's promising now may be preparing for one should he need to call one.
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  4099.  @salty0utlaw475  I'm not arguing with that. I was just pointing out that you were being one sided in your comment about Corbyn.
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  4100.  @denisepurcell4031  Or perhaps just doesn't like to hear it mangled.
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  4101.  @robbied5605  No, I am the free education service. Thank you.
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  4102.  @robbied5605  It's not about spelling though. Effect and affect are both legitimate words. It's knowing which one to use that is the key thing. Effect is an outcome or result. Affect means to cause a change in something. Hope that wasn't too condescending for you. 🌹
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  4103.  @robbied5605  I enjoy educating. It's not a crime. I don't claim any superiority.
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  4104.  @robbied5605  O.K. We are all free to comment. We don't need it to be our job. That's all now.
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  4105. That's the safe way to pick up a wild cat, and it's the same way that a mother cat picks up her kittens.
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  4106. Google 'independent reviews of skillshare' before putting your card details on their site.
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  4107. Chromatic Beardiant. I thought you'd mention the spelling of spelt :-) Yes, in the UK we use spelt and in the US they use spelled but US spellcheck so dominates the world that I think over time people in the UK will use US spellings more.
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  4108. Chromatic Beardiant. Thank you for your opinion. I'll give you mine in return. I find English in the UK more precise, concise and eloquent than the American version. Americans are often verbose which they mistake for sounding clever and they sometimes misuse words as a consequence or sound completely unintelligible. However, I am biased of course.
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  4109.  @borderlands10  No it would not bankrupt the country. Name one country in the world that it has bankrupted? Did you know that the USA has one of the highest spends on healthcare as a proportion of GDP, and yet still so many people are not covered and go bankrupt as individuals.
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  4110. A well deserved ousting.
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  4111.  @IronWolfZer0  What a *******!
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  4112.  @deepdivernum1424  Didn't he get sued over a broken contract?
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  4113.  @rickknight3823  O, a Libertarian, like Bojo Liz Truss or Rees Smug? Let the market sort everything out is their mantra except that we've known since Victorian times that the market by itself does not sort everything out. It booms and busts and throws people into poverty and unemployment when it busts.
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  4114. Yes, It's Boris dictating from number 10 now what the level of spending will be and on what (vanity?) projects. The Chancellor will just have to go along with that, however unrealistic and be expected to 'balance the books'. Cue either more savage cuts to balance the books or failure to balance the books and more economic chaos.
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  4115.  @tommykarate9397  Ignorant people in positions of power are more dangerous.
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  4116. But not very realistic
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  4117.  @jamesgravil9162  But they are learning fast.
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  4118. Not a problem. if people eventually want to rejoin they can vote Labour. If people are happy and don't want to rejoin, Labour will eventually change its leadership. The media reports that the living wage is going up by a 'record busting', 'inflation busting' 6.2% which turns out to be 51p an hour. Labour were going to put it up more than that, but it would have been reported as a 'reckless, irresponsible, unaffordable increase'. Isn't life grandy and dandy?
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  4119. The BBC licence fee, in monthly terms is cheaper than a monthly subscription to TV from Sky or Virgin. If you make the BBC a subscription only service, people overseas who can't access it now would be able to, and the dead hand of government would be off it, though it would probably then cease to be a British institution and become more internationally focused. One more internationally influential British institution, and icon, that's no longer British, along with British chocolate and sweet firms, British Rail, and other companies that used to keep skills in Britain. We are going to need our creative institutions after Brexit to help earn our living in the wider world. Creative industries are something we are good at, though they are not valued and this is not recognised by our philistine government. I suspect its competitors (like Rupert Murdoch) might try to take it over if it was in direct competition, to eliminate a competitor and dumb down the news.
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  4120.  @NYCVideoRider  It's an English accent, definitely not American
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  4121.  @Diddy1970AD  English accent
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  4122. It's the uneducated who are are still supporting the Tories.
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  4123. Destroying the world's oxygen makers. How stupid is that? The Amazon Rainforest should be declared a world protected reserve. Why on Earth did the Brazilian people vote in this idiot? Is the world taking leave of its senses?
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  4124.  @owenorders5202  There is evidence of people having permanently damaged lung tissue. I give up now. You'll find out for yourself if you are unlucky enough.
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  4125.  @owenorders5202  So what is your answer - let the virus spread until we have 'herd immunity'. As you will know, that's not guaranteed as viruses can mutate. Also what family members would you be prepared to sacrifice from allowing the virus to spread? Unless all the older members of your family have already died off or you can guarantee that none of your family will have chronic conditions or disability, that's what it comes down to. In a capitalist system of course companies will seek to profit from anything they can profit from but not all scientists are drones that go along with profit to the exclusion of all other principles and there's no 'conspiracy' to damage the health of the population since that would not be free from risk for anyone however powerful. In fact a number of leaders of countries have contracted the virus already. The think Brazil is currently the most illustrative of the 'do nothing' model and we know how that's going don't we? Also biologists have found that there was once, in our history a pandemic that lasted for 15 million years and some of the indicators of that are lodged in our DNA. They don't know what the virus did, but the most similar known viruses to that are known to be cancer causing, in particularly leukaemia causing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M3L_Kykl6w
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  4126.  @imwithstupid00011  How?
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  4127.  @imwithstupid00011  I've done a lot of research.
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  4128.  @tomjohnson4681  My brother in law had Covid. It gave him a stroke and now he can't walk, can't feed himself and can't speak distinctly so he can't make himself understood. I've already had one dose of Astra Zeneca vaccine. I wouldn't get Ivermectin unless it's recommended by medics. It's an animal medicine.
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  4129.  @tomjohnson4681  So have you taken ivermectin?
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  4130.  @tomjohnson4681  Do you regard yourself as immune to Covid 19 now?
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  4131.  @Gracie1344  I don't think so. Hardly anyone in comments sections seems to spell that word correctly and they don't check.
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  4132. @KEEP BRITAIN FREE Add back all the people who've had Covid and never been tested.
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  4133. @Terry pipe Perhaps because they've been protecting themselves better as a result of Covid but I wouldn't say nobody got the flu. It's just not attracting as much publicity. * It's flu not flue. A flue is a duct for smoke and waste gasses.
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  4134.  @Davemac1116  Not true. The excess deaths figure indicates how many people have died of Covid. The average deaths figure indicates those that have died from the usual causes.
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  4135. @Terry pipe Touché. Well spotted (see my pun). I did mean been but 'all is bene that ends bene'. I've corrected it now.
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  4136.  @TruthToPower  Ah, I see.
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  4137. I don't understand why people are so self destructive. If you want to take risks, take risks on something more positive that could permanently improve your life, even if you fail you can learn from that. For mental pain try talking to friends or family, or professionals, if possible..
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  4138. He said something.
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  4139.  @TT-rx8hm  It killed a celeb in the USA who was 59 - a songwriter, and I know someone who's died of it and I also know two people who know someone who's died of it, though 2 of them are in the USA. It's not just killing people in hospital. It's just that most severe cases end up in hospital. Those that die at home are not counted as they are not tested. It's also killing people in care homes. Here are the UK government stats.https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/slides-and-datasets-to-accompany-coronavirus-press-conference-1-april-2020?utm_source=2bd1706f-8c35-4abf-a31a-ea064aed8246&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=immediate
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  4140.  @nattyco  This is nitpicking really. There can't be huge number of patients that co-incidentally get Covid19 just as they are dying of something else. It sounds like looking for an excuse to downplay the seriousness of Covid 19. Also large numbers of doctors have died, who were treating Covid 19 patients, and weren't themselves dying of something else at the same time.
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  4141. @Russian Troll so Im told You vote for your MEPs just as you vote for your MPs. So you can kick out the Tory MEPs if you wish.
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  4142.  @asteraceae3650  Absolutely. Agreed.
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  4143. From 4:47 for the names.
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  4144. *leaving. There are different ways of leaving. That's the point. They didn't have a vote on which way to leave, but the way the UK leaves will affect its economy. One way is better than another.
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  4145. I thought his was a rural seat with farmers. British farming will be destroyed with a no deal Brexit. Even Mogg's favourite economist admits that. Are the voters there mesmerised by Mogg?
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  4146. @Joe Bloggs. It didn't sound as though you knew it. Don't you have a lawn to mow or a car to wash or a fence to mend?
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  4147. @Joe Bloggs. Are you offering to do them for me?
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  4148. @Joe Bloggs. You're one of the elite, so.
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  4149. @Joe Bloggs. It was a bit of a joke. Brexiteers are always going on about Remainers being the 'elite' aren't they? In my view the 'elite' are more on the Leavers side and they want out for tax reasons. The EU have introduced regulations to reduce tax avoidance and money laundering practices. Those measures come into effect in January 2020. The elite I'm referring to can switch investments around globally to where costs are lowest. They include financial speculators who earn money from betting against the performance of the British economy in a practice called 'shorting' and they include people who are paid by foreign multi national corporations and foreign money launderers.
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  4150. Cummings is prepared to swear on oath that Johnson was told. Will he ever be called upon as a witness.
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  4151.  @jerryorange6983  and they were all voting for unicorns.
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  4152. I'd rather export Nigel and import someone nicer in his place.
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  4153.  @Kaine1111  Well I don't know how 'the satanic elite' can guarantee to be elected in democracies. This is nonsense.
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  4154. Reminds me of the saying 'All's for the best in the best of all possible worlds' From Voltaire's satire on optimism
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  4155.  @gcooksey312  I don't think it costs me that much, but surely it's worth it to guarantee supply? Anyway I don't drive so I don't want to be carrying more than I need to when I shop.
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  4156.  @gcooksey312  P.S. I've just checked. It costs me 85p per pint.
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  4157.  @spartacusmills3569  *you mean 'what you are talking about'? What I've said is common knowledge coming from medical experts and scientists.
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  4158.  Ivan Gromov At this time of Covid, I don't support any event that creates crowds with no distancing and no masks.
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  4159.  Ivan Gromov  I disagree with ANY and ALL demonstrations in this time of Covid where people don't wear masks or keep their distance, and it's pretty impossible to do that in demonstrations. I'm not going to single out one demonstration above any other.
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  4160.  Ivan Gromov  Strange that you don't know the meaning of ALL and that you want me to single that one out. Are you racist?
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  4161.  Ivan Gromov  I wasn't silent I just wasn't biased. You were looking for some kind of bias. Are you a Russian troll, Ivan?
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  4162. Labour is for democracy and consent which the Tories clearly aren't. They are just for enriching their backers.
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  4163. Aren't you missing an important step? Start by removing the Tory government.
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  4164. Montgomerie reminds me of someone I know, appearance, age, speech, mannerisms. It's an amazing likeness except that the politics are the polar opposite.
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  4165. Your comment?
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  4166. Only a part of the establishment is defeated - the British business part. Financial speculators however will have a field day and make massive profits from Brexit.
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  4167. Are the people of Wuhan going Woohoo now?
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  4168. Zenoist2. In fantasy world yes, but it didn't affect everyone in Barnet - only relatively few and not enough to change the result. You're also making the assumption that all non Muslims would vote for Khan's opponent, but many Barnet residents are sick to death of their experience of Tory rule there and people most motivated to vote are those dissatisfied with the status quo.
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  4169. Surely not?
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  4170. 'We want to see.....,we want to see....., we want to see....., It's fantasy land. I want to see pavements made of gold but it ain't going to happen, especially when the economy is under the charge of the economically illiterate.
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  4171.  @gopher1471  Absolutely allowed to lefties. They are the ones that don't follow obediently.
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  4172.  @gopher1471  Well it must be right if you say so gopher1471. You being such a knowall.
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  4173. It's 'shook up' not 'shaked up'. Elvis could have told you that.
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  4174. Why is it called 'borderline' personality disorder rather than just personality disorder?
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  4175. o.k. o.k. Calm down.
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  4176. Hello Russian bot.
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  4177.  @k7y  Wrong country.
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  4178.  @dfretwell2706  Survival doesn't necessarily mean back to normal, fit and well. Quite a few people have longer term issues after getting Covid.
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  4179. I think they would have to get the permission of the freeholder to make such changes or the freeholder would be the one who needs to do it. Consult the lawyers.
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  4180. You're about 500 years too late with the Shakespeare joke. Still, the old ones are the best, eh? Also you're not meant to pronounce the letter 'b' in subtle. Interesting video though.
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  4181.  Denise Skinner  Is there a vaccine against paranoia?
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  4182. Hic tibi bono
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  4183.  @stephenweir9871  Yes but it's one lump in a world of lumps and it is probably the most benign of the world's lumps.
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  4184. Why should it bother him? His particular obsessions reveal his nasty character underneath the superficial 'bonhommie'. Oh of course, he makes his money by being a controversialist. Lots of students studied from home online and perhaps not having the disruptive classmates to contend with helped. Also some people fall down on exam day, and that may not be typical of their work, but due to exam stress. People with degrees could still go into trades and skills. German skilled workers are more highly educated than British ones and British companies tended to drop apprenticeships. We just don't have the set up for that as much as we used to . I remember having work done on my house where I had to tell the workmen where the electrical points were to go because they could not read the plan which displayed the points. I also remember that the same company sacked a young man as soon as he'd passed his city and guilds qualification in order to avoid having to pay him at a higher rate.
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  4185. Why would anyone create a scam so damaging to everyone? Why would doctors worldwide collude in such a scam. No, mate, that's just wishful thinking on your part. Stay safe. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/52760992
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  4186. It's people like you who are responsible for spreading it, by your lack of responsible comments and behaviour. The government is not pushing the stats to induce fear but to get people to behave responsibly. It's the uneducated who close their ears to the science. However turning off social media may well improve thinking and mood, since they are full of conspiracy theories and other rubbish. If people behaved responsibly and the government had got its act together early on on track and trace, there would be no need for lockdowns. Research indicated that at the height of the Spring surge only 18% of people with the virus fully complied with self isolation and only 11% of those returning from abroad complied fully with quarantine requirements. The north of England's pandemic was a couple of weeks behind the south's and the government came out of national lockdown when cases in the south were going down, but cases in the north were still going up. Track and trace has now been overwhelmed and is not functioning as intended. Hospitals could be overwhelmed soon. It's up to us all to act responsibly.
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  4187.  @gregjackson8724  There are excess deaths though the figure has varied over the year. The worst excesses were in April at the height of the first spike. We are going through a second spike now so the figures will probably rise again at this last quarter of 2020, though more treatments are available than in April, so it might not be as bad. There is the possibility that, mask wearing, hand washing and social distancing has kept flu numbers down.
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  4188. Well done British government whose cuts to police budgets since 2010 have resulted in a loss of 20,000 police officers.
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  4189. *carcase (or carcass)
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  4190. Yes Shakespeare did exist. A legal case was found where William Shakespeare was called as a witness. In the legal records are his 2 addresses because he had left London for Stratford on Avon by then, so it has his Stratford address and his address in Silver Street London where he rented from landlords who ran a 'Tiring business. i.e. a business that provided clothing for the theatre. His youngest brother, Edmund, also came to London to be an actor. Edmund's illegitimate son was buried in the actors church, St Leonards. Edmund himself was buried in Southwark Cathedral. I've seen his grave. It is thought that William Shakespeare paid for the funeral as Edmund himself was poor and could not have afforded that burial place. Shakespeare's brother Gilbert came to London to run a business in London. Ben Jonson, playwright, said Shakespeare' had little Latin and less Greek'. He did not say the man was illiterate.
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  4191. What a big hypocrite, Putin is.
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  4192.  @eu3127  I was referring to Putin as I've now made clear.
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  4193. Call something an 'establishment plot'. That's bound to get rightists and Brexiteers on Cummings side isn't it?
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  4194. It might help the obesity problem if Americans did a bit more physical work.
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  4195. He gets ignored because he 'votes for nobody' as he says.
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  4196.  charlie cheeseface  Just for you 0:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKeLiluvmKg
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  4197.  @dogsenseforu301  Gosh this has taken me on a trip down memory lane. I've not commented on this thread for a long time. You are right about that. Private Eye magazine contructed a database that shows where all the foreign bought property in the UK is, but then the Land Registry stopped releasing the information on which it was based. It can still be found though, I believe, via their website.
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  4198. It's not Corbyn who's got us into this mess. He hasn't been in power in case you've not noticed.
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  4199.  @Natei  Corbyn wanted a Deal that involved staying in the customs union. That would not have required an Irish backstop which was the main thing the Tories objected to about the Deal.
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  4200.  @zulupuping1999  Good for you. I'm glad you are so easily made happy.
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  4201.  @zulupuping1999  How do you know? He's not been tried except that he can seem to withstand a lot of pressure.
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  4202.  @avebis5709  Their status isn't truly self-employed given the conditions they work under. They should test this in court like the Uber drivers did.
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  4203.  @SayKuun  If a manager can tell a person what to do, then that person is not self-employed although the manager may tell them they are. Self-employment is not a question of imposition. There are objective criteria that determine whether a person is truly self-employed or not. If they don't meet those criteria because they are managed and told what to do, then they can take the case to court for judgement. If they are judged to be employed, the employer has to meet employment legislation - pay at least the minimum wage, pay employers national insurance and deduct employees national insurance, deduct tax, grant holiday and sick leave etc etc. Uber drivers recently won a case on this.
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  4204.  @SayKuun  I do understand but a truly self-employed person will be able to take on work from anyone who wishes to contract with them, so they do not have to work exclusively for one person. If a person demands exclusive rights to your labour, you don't meet the criteria for self-employment. They are effectively (in law) your employer whether they like it or not. I understand the pressures people can be under to do as they are told. All I am saying is that such managers don't have a leg to stand on legally if taken to court. I'm referring to the law in the UK. I don't know about other countries.
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  4205. Lol at that pronunciation. I thought at first you were saying 'mania scripts'
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  4206. Liam from One Direction
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  4207.  @katiakatia2380  They were a massively popular band in the UK and USA at one time though they have broken up now. If you want to know more google them.
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  4208. They were tracking in the beginning, but if people moved through crowds etc while they were infected, but before they realised they were infected, it's hard to trace everyone they might have infected.
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  4209. Oscar Wilde wasn't bi-polar. Maybe he would understand. Maybe he wouldn't.
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  4210. Not if it breaks the law. Communists are not in power. (I hate to break it to you that it's a Conservative government in power and making the laws.)
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  4211. What's the smart meter scandal?
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  4212. Why was his newspaper so biased in favour of the Tories? Isn't that a form of censorship? Anyway Lebedev is gay. Would he like to be called some of the names that are now avoided, in the name of free speech?
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  4213. Isn't guaranteed overtime another way of saying compulsory overtime?
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  4214. Would that be the Celts then?
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  4215. Generous of them to give it to each other.
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  4216.  @martinholmes6807  I don't think believing it's a massive lie will protect you. Good luck with that, but it's not going to protect others either. Still, I don't suppose you care about others.
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  4217. Duh!
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  4218. Even his voice is depressing.
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  4219.  @NIcholasparker88  No such thing.
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  4220. He looks so gleeful and smug now but this man knows nothing. Do not vote him in if you value your future.
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  4221. What does that mean?
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  4222. Colleen Johnson, He could do that but her prefers to carry on polluting the environment.
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  4223. TheRedScourge. Sadly I don't have the power of a President to change things. I don't drive - never have- though I do use buses and trains when necessary. Eating and drinking can be done organically in biodegradable ways. I do buy stuff, but probably less than average. I don't particularly enjoy shopping. We may not be able to eliminate pollution but we can reduce it.
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  4224. TheRedScourge. That's maybe because it doesn't want to do much for its people. Most governments do more.
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  4225. Really? Queues for vaccines are normal in our area. Perhaps you weren't in the right location.
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  4226.  @bektaskonca5189  There are queues in our area but you also have to have an appointment. They designated only 2 places in the whole area.
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  4227. Lol, at the line 'I could explain but it would go over American people's heads'.
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  4228. Whatever he said, he endured several minutes of utterly childish baiting before that. When he has a go at her it's about her politics, but she always resorts to old style, ya boo, invective, probably because she's got no real answer to his points. Now the Tories think they've got something to distract everyone from the holy mess being made of Brexit.
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  4229. MAGA voters liked Trump because he was as nasty minded as them. They just didn't like it when he became nasty to them.
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  4230. She has to be loud to be heard over Farage's loud mouth.
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  4231.  @themalejodietaylor2599  He doesn't let others with different views get a word in, if he can help it.
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  4232. Except that the Saudi regime is foul. Led by a murderer, and locks up and executes anyone who protests against the regime.
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  4233. Your question is ungrammatical.
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  4234. It's not all filmed in the North. A lot of this is in the Midlands.
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  4235.  @specialized500  Yes, they are north of London but they are not The North. Australia is north of New Zealand I believe but it is not in the Northern hemisphere. Only someone London centric views the country in terms of its relationship to London, and I say that as a Londoner myself.
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  4236.  @specialized500  That's a test isn't it? There used to be a saying in London that The North was everything north of Watford, but Watford itself is not the north.
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  4237.  @specialized500  It's only north of hampton
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  4238.  @specialized500  Aw shucks, you are too kind. It was nothing :-)
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  4239. Because they can never have enough, apparently.
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  4240.  @patrixmatrix7163  *meant.
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  4241.  @Pablo98145  This goverment is a scam but don't forget that the Labour government following the end of WW2 rebuilt Britain to renew it after bomb damage and to get rid of the 1930s slum housing, created the NHS, and nationalised our vital resources such as water, coal, gas electricity, and railways. There was no suggestion of corruption then. As soon as their basic needs were met and people were feeling more optimistic they were lured by the Tory messages of individual aspiration and voted the Tories back in. The Tory goverrnment was riding on the back of Labour's foundation work but in those times the Tories were more 'one nation' in their beliefs and not as divisive as now.
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  4242.  @seyley2901  If you know why did you comment thus Sorry, what? Given that you are the in control of all things binary, you tell me who Kemi is? I don't expect people to 'comply' with anything I say. I just express my opinions as it's a free country.
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  4243. It's the cases of the Indian variant that have risen. It's not a general or overall rise so far. The Indian variant is more easily transmitted. Travel from India was not closed down early enough, and this variant affects younger people too, so the easing of lockdown measures will have contributed to the spread.
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  4244. 'Stuck in terrible conditions in Germany' must be better than 'stuck in terrible conditions in Afghanistan'.
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  4245. I've seen all of these except Raging Bull, Bicycle Thieves and Breathless (A Bout De Souffle), but I'm not at film school. I just like good films.
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  4246. What about smallpox, eliminated after vaccinations? What about polio? Vaccinated children didn't end up being crippled or dying from paralysis. Even if not prevented, vaccinations can reduce the severity of symptoms. Vaccinations for those diseases though have a very different way of working than Covid vaccines. You can't lump vaccines all together as if they are the same.
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  4247.  @DavidSmith-rz1pc  I don't need to read the book to know those facts. I've presented you with facts and you can't present any counter argument other than 'read the book'.
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  4248.  @DavidSmith-rz1pc  My evidence for smallpox eradication by vaccine, and the huge reduction in world polio cases is the World Health Organisation's evidence.
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  4249.  @DavidSmith-rz1pc  This is countered by 'The Leicester Method and Smallpox Eradication By Vincent Iannelli, MD / May 6, 2017 / eradicated diseases, history of the anti-vaccine movement, smallpox, vaccine myths'. From my own perspective I'd point out that smallpox was eradicated worldwide though the world did not all use the 'Leicester method' .
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  4250. Why not, because you say so?
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  4251. I don't know what you are referring to but he abstained in a vote recently because he thought there was too little support for people suffering financial hardship because of Covid and that includes small businesses.
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  4252.  @richardlyon67  Covid is a priority for both parties. Some small businesses in local areas are clubbing together and going online via a website. Seems like a good idea. I hate to say it but if people had followed the guidance in the first place we wouldn't be having continual outbreaks. People are sabotaging their own communities and their local businesses when they ignore the guidance on social distancing, wearing masks and hand washing. It's no good people moaning and at the same time contributing to the problem
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  4253.  @richardlyon67  This was not Labour's fault. The Tories always did too little too late and then flip flopped all the time as soon as they were criticised which meant the measures were not sustainably successful, people's sacrifices were in vain and the measures had to be repeated. Labour would not have done things the same way, but since the electorate in its wisdom gave the Tories an 80 seat majority in the house there's very little Labour can do about it. They don't have the numbers to stop or change anything the Tories are doing and now we are where we are, it's a bigger mess to sort out with fewer options. The best models for handling this thing can be seen in Singapore, Taiwan and New Zealand.
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  4254.  @richardlyon67  I've not heard about the ciminalising bit. Criminalising asking questions or criminalising spreading false information? Countries that did best did what they did and are where they are. To be fair they are smaller countries in terms of population, people obeyed the guidance better, Singapore definitely controlled airport arrivals much better, Taiwan had a very impressive response by the administration there and also controlled arrivals. I can't recall all the details but I read an article about it. I believe the article was in Private Eye Magazine. Our government declined to plan ahead for a pandemic when advised to. As a consequence it did not have the right equipment or enough of it to deal with the pandemic. It required hospitals to send untested patients with symptoms back into care homes which had no equipment or provision for dealing with Covid. Our government also shilly shallied and flip flopped over its policies rendering them ineffective in the longer run. It didn't always follow the science and could not explain the logic of its policies to the public and it was a case of 'do as I say, not as I do' when it came to Boris visiting hospitals and shaking hands without gloves and Dominic Cummings doing as he pleased, travelling to and around Durham while infected with Covid.
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  4255.  @richardlyon67  If what you say is true about exposure of those countries to similar viruses being a factor in their lower case incidence, then why does it not hold true for the whole region? Covid 19 is a new strain of Coronavirus and there's not been anything quite like it before in the way it behaves e.g. in what it can do to the body, in how it can spread and be most infectious for a longer period before any symptoms are experienced, and in how it can also be spread by symptomless people.
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  4256.  @richardlyon67  Do you have evidence that Labour does not make a distinction between anti-Vaxxers and people who ask questions about why indemnity was necessary? What Labour seems to be concerned about is 'people churning out disinformation' https://labour.org.uk/press/labour-calls-for-emergency-legislation-to-stamp-out-dangerous-anti-vax-content/
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  4257.  @richardlyon67  Labour are concerned about spreaders of misinformation about vaccines, not people asking questions and the tier measures now have to be taken because the Tories made such a hash up of dealing with the virus previously and it's now out of control. Labour is not going to vote against that as we have to get the virus under control but we wouldn't be where we are now if we'd had a Labour government in charge from the beginning.
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  4258.  @richardlyon67  Yes but it doesn't look as if this one is going away any time soon and what if it mutates - then previous immunity won't count and neither will current vaccines and the lethality could increase. We also don't know yet, with this one, how long immunity lasts. There's no reason to be complacent.
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  4259.  @richardlyon67  I'm referring to low case numbers, not just deaths. Keeping cases numbers low, unlike neighbouring countries indicates effective anti Covid policies, but you can read what they actually did if you are interested.
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  4260.  @richardlyon67  Weren't the protesters breaking the law concerning Covid restrictions by holding a public demonstration at that time? Wasn't that the reason they were arrested?
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  4261.  @richardlyon67  You need to be more specific. What demonstration are you referring to?
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  4262. She said even the OBR didn't know all of it. I'm sure they'll contradict her if it's not true.
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  4263. She doesn't have a lot of experience of big offices of state, though she's probably got brains and competence.
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  4264. A true statement? Must be a first.
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  4265. Why does Bill Gates pronounce test as tast? I thought he was saying task at first.
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  4266. I saw some biographical shows on Trump's life, and even when he was a lot younger he stated that he likes to create chaos when in a difficult situation as it serves him well.
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  4267. Everyone might want to live like Sweden but if it happens in the present way, the world won't bear it and the destruction will be horrendous. What does it matter if you have nice things in your house, if, when you step outside it, the air is horrible and damages your lungs, the animals are sick and dying, the vegetation is dying, and the water is polluted. There is no choice but to go eco friendly.
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  4268. Who was the person standing next to Trump, chuckling at 6:36? Was that Vance?
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  4269. But Farage and Rees Mogg and other wealthy folk of their ilk will benefit from the lack of regulation of the financial system that a hard deal Brexit would provide - even more scope to squirrel profits away into tax havens. There will be even less tax available to provide the public services that people need but they are not concerned about that. Farage is on record as saying the NHS should be replaced by an insurance based, market based system. No deal Brexit provides a playground for the rich with the economic pain and suffering felt by the rest in lost jobs and services.
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  4270. One that will glorify and never criticise Trump.
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  4271. Vance needs to read the purposes of the Supreme Court.
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  4272. If you vote for a government that takes more and more money from local authorities and those authorities don't even have enough for social care, they simply don't have the resources to deal effectively with floods like this even if they have the will to help.
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  4273. Candidates for President are supposed to outline what they plan to do to benefit voters and the country. Trump never got that message.
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  4274. As much as 37%.
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  4275. I guess you are not a Londoner.
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  4276.  You love Youtube too??  Evidence of corruption?
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  4277.  @unionjackjackson4352  That's an ignorant comment. The Home Office has a budget for police. It may be money that finds its way to the Mayor and local councils, but it originates from the government. The government has cut funding for police so much since 2010 that the police were reduced by 20,000 posts. Khan actually put some of London's money into the police budgets to try and offset some of the damage but he doesn't have the kind of spare funds for that to make up for the government cuts. P.S. To be perfectly fair, recently the government has said it will add to police funds to make up for some of its cuts. I don't think they will restore the whole amount though.
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  4278.  @pauld5723  You could actually look it up. He has a house building programme (he has begun building over 56,000 homes), funded an anti-pollution programme, which will help to protect schoolchildren from toxic air https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/mayoral/schools-benefit-from-mayors-air-quality-audits, he has a tree planting programme He has an anti crime programme https://sadiq.london/campaign/crime/ https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/mayoral/mayor-announces-thousands-of-new-street-trees he capped some tube fares and introduced 2 bus journey for the price of one . This helped low paid workers in the city. He stopped the wasteful spending on Bojo's unnecessary vanity project 'The Garden Bridge' which was running into financial trouble and threatening to soak up ever more taxpayers money when the project had not even secured the land on the south side of the bridge to build that end of it. These are further promises for 2021 https://labourlist.org/2021/04/5-policy-pledges-in-sadiq-khans-2021-election-labour-manifesto-for-london/ London's crime increased as a result of the Tory government making huge cuts to funding of local authorities and police budgets resulting in 20,000 fewer police officers since 2010. Khan put some London money back into police budgets but he didn't have enough spare to make up for the huge government cuts. He pushed the Metropolitan police to do more stop and search to combat knife crime. His Tory opponent, Shaun Bailey, was against that as he said it was racist. The Tory government has cut its funding to local authorities by 80% since 2010 and local councils had to cut funding for leisure centres, your centres and day care centres as a result as well as other projects aimed at young people. The government probably hoped that people will blame local authorities/Mayors for the consequences of that. Some people blame him for TfL's debt but he actually paid off more of it than when Boris Johnson was Mayor. However Covid lockdowns have since affected its income stream.
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  4279. This is what he has done and what he has promised to do in his next term: He has a house building programme (he has begun building over 56,000 homes), funded an anti-pollution programme, which will help to protect schoolchildren from toxic air https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/mayoral/schools-benefit-from-mayors-air-quality-audits, he has a tree planting programme He has an anti crime programme https://sadiq.london/campaign/crime/ https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/mayoral/mayor-announces-thousands-of-new-street-trees he capped some tube fares and introduced 2 bus journey for the price of one . This helped low paid workers in the city. He stopped the wasteful spending on Bojo's unnecessary vanity project 'The Garden Bridge' which was running into financial trouble and threatening to soak up ever more taxpayers money when the project had not even secured the land on the south side of the bridge to build that end of it. These are further promises for 2021 https://labourlist.org/2021/04/5-policy-pledges-in-sadiq-khans-2021-election-labour-manifesto-for-london/ London's crime increased as a result of the Tory government making huge cuts to funding of local authorities and police budgets resulting in 20,000 fewer police officers since 2010. Khan put some London money back into police budgets but he didn't have enough spare to make up for the huge government cuts. He pushed the Metropolitan police to do more stop and search to combat knife crime. His Tory opponent, Shaun Bailey, was against that as he said it was racist. The Tory government has cut its funding to local authorities by 80% since 2010 and local councils had to cut funding for leisure centres, your centres and day care centres as a result as well as other projects aimed at young people. The government probably hoped that people will blame local authorities/Mayors for the consequences of that. Some people blame him for TfL's debt but he actually paid off more of it than when Boris Johnson was Mayor. However Covid lockdowns have since affected its income stream.
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  4280.  @unionjackjackson4352  What you're saying isn't true. You haven't bothered to look up any facts have you? TfL was in debt in Boris's time as Mayor. The pollution policies have not been in place for years. Again you didn't look at the the facts. I would know if they were in place previously. I have asthma and live on a main road and have lived here for over 30 years. Public transport is I think the cheapest in the country - buses are anyway and the services are frequent. A bus journey anywhere in London costs £1.55 and 2 journeys within an hour can be done for that price. Similar bus journeys in Manchester cost over £4 says the Mayor of Manchester. You can't see beyond race and your own prejudices and I'm not going to engage any more with someone who doesn't want to look at the facts and is racist.
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  4281.  @unionjackjackson4352  Look it up for yourself, lazy boy.
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  4282.  @unionjackjackson4352  Look these up yourself, lazy boy. I'm fed up of doing all the work for you. Do you pull your weight at work?
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  4283.  @unionjackjackson4352  You don't know. You say 'whenever housing is built' but social housing (which is truly affordable) has not been built under the Tories. Since Margaret Thatcher's day it has been the Tory objective to get rid of it or as much of it as they could. She forced councils to sell it off. Then for a long time councils were not allowed to build more. Now they don't have the money for it and any they build they could be forced to sell off in the future. Much of the housing sold off eventually ended up in the hands of landlords who rented them out at market rents which are high in London. The Tories are all about keeping house prices high and protecting developers.
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  4284.  @unionjackjackson4352  Blair was a closet Tory. He was an admirer of Margaret Thatcher but even with rents going up social housing would still have been the cheapest for people to live in. You have to be a British Citizen to be eligible for Social Housing or someone with a long term right to stay. https://www.thetenantsvoice.co.uk/advice_from_us/are-you-eligible-for-social-housing/ With councils, some are nearly bankrupt. Overall the debt far outweighs the 10s of millions you mention. Traditionally wealthy councils (mostly Tory) have not been hit as badly by Tory government cuts and don't spend as much on services for their citizens. For instance Westminster Council doesn't have the extent of homelessness and poverty to deal with that some of the others do. (Westminster at one time was exporting their homeless to other boroughs) Some have got themselves into trouble by creating and investing in housebuilding projects without the experience or knowledge (Croydon is one). This was trying to raise income in alternative ways after big (80%) cuts to central funding. https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/exactly-one-londons-richest-councils-18327652
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  4285.  @unionjackjackson4352  But councils are limited in how much they can raise as council tax from residents. Wealthier councils with lots of businesses do better than areas that have lost businesses and areas with lots of unemployed, get reduced council tax from those. It's a vicious circle - the more poverty the less council tax, but the more legally required or voluntary spending is needed.
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  4286.  @unionjackjackson4352  Here: educate yourself on council tax. https://citizensassembly.co.uk/how-is-local-government-funded/#:~:text=1%20More%20government%20grant%20funding.%20Councils%20are%20expected,percentage%20of%20VAT%20receipts%20%28VAT%20cannot%20be%20 The government used to ensure fairer distribution of income but from 2020 councils can keep all their business tax raised so more prosperous councils benefit at the expense of others. Since 2010 deprived areas have had their grants cut more than less deprived areas.
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  4287.  @unionjackjackson4352  Do you have any evidence for your allegations or is it just your bigotry in play? Are you a Londoner? I suspect not.
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  4288.  @unionjackjackson4352  P.S. When you don't like the facts you revert back to unsupported allegations. That's a sad mentality to be unable to fact facts.
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  4289.  @unionjackjackson4352  I suppose you'd rather have an 'honest' man like Boris's puppet in charge. Boris is an honest man isn't he?
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  4290. Has she been bought?
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  4291. He has already commented.
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  4292.  @morpheus9137  Not that.
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  4293.  @johnrussell3961  I agree with what you say.. At the time of the GFA it didn't need to say anything about equality and equivalence between NI and GB. It didn't need to because it wasn't an issue that related to achieving peace in NI. In fact NI has avoided being in line with UK legislation on abortion and a few other issues. There have been differences between NI and the rest of the UK because of its delegated authority as a result of devolved government. Devolved government means there can be differences between England and the other countries of the UK on devolved issues, but human rights legislation means that there should not be differences on human rights that all member of the UK are entitled to. The NI protocol in all its ramifications deals with trade issues. It does not affect human rights issues or deal in nationality issues.
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  4294.  @johnrussell3961  Yes as long as there's also justice and equality of rights (in practice).
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  4295.  @johnrussell3961  I don't see that. The GFA was agreed in 1998 when both Ireland and the UK were in the EU. Economic ties were strong then. It was Brexit that caused the rift in economic ties, something that NI didn't vote for.
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  4296.  @johnrussell3961  In terms of equality I'm referring to human rights. I'm not sure what the GFA has to say about that. I must have a look, but at the time Ireland and the UK, as part of the EU were on the same page when it came to human rights. That could change as the UK government shamefully now threatens to withdraw form the ECHR. There are areas where the GFA allows equivalence with both Ireland and the UK. For instance people in NI can choose whether to have and Irish or a British passport or they can have both.
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  4297. There is no recovery of the brain from brain death. That's why it's termed 'death'.
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  4298. Theresa May may have been a decent person as he says (though I'm not so sure), but she was a blockhead. Once she got an idea in her head no evidence to the contrary would change her mind. Boris is good at deceiving people about the nature of his character.
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  4299. Go back to your conspiracy theory sites before you get withdrawal symptoms.
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  4300. How do we know this isn't just a stunt for public consumption and that Cummings is not just working from home until Xmas?
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  4301. There were plenty of women and children on the flights. Have you not been watching the news?
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  4302. I thought by law that people could not be summarily sacked. There had to be a procedure with a warning given and a chance to improve before moving to sacking. Has that changed? What is the background? Was it just this one comment or was it the final straw, a flippancy by someone who was perceived as generally racist on a daily basis? How can anyone judge without knowing all the circumstances.
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  4303.  @bubbles12o47  Only because most men were drafted into the army and then sent to war. The economy also benefited from a certain amount of slave labour.
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  4304.  @sharonsparks900  That's true in the UK also but maybe not on the same scale.
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  4305. No legal protection from exploitation for workers in Dubai under practices that would be illegal elsewhere. No unions and companies such as G4S taking part in this should be punished by not getting contracts in the UK or other Western countries. Other companies involved in this should also be named, shamed and punished. Migrant workers should go to Singapore rather than Dubai.
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  4306. Before getting far in this video, I'm guessing competition and profit based enterprises are not something that fits well with healthcare needs, and the tendency towards monopoly in order to push prices up is growing. Surprise, surprise. This video was made before the Covid pandemic took off and the idea that technology development means not so many hospital beds are needed, does not take into account that lots of beds might be needed in a pandemic.
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  4307.  @Emkei2010  Your maths are out mate. There have been over 4 million cases so far (rounded) and the UK population is 68million, so that's about 6% of people who have had the virus. Not many of those have had it after vaccination. Besides which your risk of getting it depends on your behaviour and the Indian variant is 50% more transmissable and can make younger people very ill.
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  4308.  @mixedracebajan6119  Only empty headed folk laugh at nothing.
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  4309.  @knightofwangernumb2998  I have heard that and let's hope it works that way with this one. I'm not sure how much time it takes for viruses to grow weaker. Your name made me laugh, by the way.
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  4310.  @MalleusIudaeorum  I think they are competent. I disagree with Hunt's views and don't yet know Starmer's policies.
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  4311. We're all doomed as the lungs of the world burn in Siberia, California, Australia, Brazil and other places. Soon there will be no large forests left. Fires occur at 451 degrees fahrenheit don't they? How do trees get to that temperature? Surely carless people must be accidentally starting these off, or maybe not accidentally. The other aspect of this is the loss of wildlife and wildlife habitats and the variety of plants on Earth, some of which have not yet been discovered or preserved and could potentially provide cures for diseases.
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  4312.  @Lorraine-p4r  Because she's not great. She's crap and I say that as a female Londoner.
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  4313. The local voters and party members aren't going to be happy with an outsider with no connections to the area being parachuted in at the last minute. The local party members are the ones that normally campaign for the local candidate. Are they going to willingly do it under those circumstances?
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  4314. What makes you cheer?
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  4315. Actually during and since Covid the government took over control of the railways because the companies would have walked away for lack of passengers during lockdowns. Now they collect the revenue just pay the companies a flat fee for running them. Effectively they do own the railways now but they are not direct employers of rail staff. However they are pulling all the levers. During talks any proposals from the union side have to be checked with the government by the employers.
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  4316.  @timkbirchico8542  She would have expanded Obamacare.
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  4317. It's not funny but Hugh Grant is suggesting the incompetence of the failed 'hit' is funny in an absurd way, and typically English. I think the promoters try to 'lighten' the dark subjects in the show a bit to make it more bearable for audiences to watch by showing how amateurish and crazy it all was.The 'hit' only failed because the assassin shot the dog first and then his gun jammed.
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  4318. Good heavens. The only reason Trump wants to be in power is to protect himself from lawsuits and use public money to support his businesses and family. He'll say anything to get there and those that believe him are idiots. Here's a little video on 30 of his broken promises. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZD_xyAjC-E&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=135
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  4319. Jsmes Wagner *you're
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  4320. Kc B. 'I could care less' means you care. It's 'I couldn't care less' if you mean you don't care.
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  4321. Well it didn't do Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz) any harm. He played a variety of parts including an English medieval Knight, a Viking an Anglo Saxon, and a Roman - all with his New York accent intact but I enjoyed his performances.
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  4322.  @niccoarcadia4179  I'd like to think they would be given a chance today, since parts have opened up more to 'non-conventional' casting, as witnessed here. It should be talent that wins out in getting parts, as well as suitability. However I think they'd probably have to learn to do different accents. In this case, because Margaret was regarded with suspicion for being a foreigner (French) her casting is like a metaphor for that sense of standing out as different from the rest of the court.
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  4323.  @videotape2959  No, That's not to do with a democratic government, which only outlaws hate speech for equality reasons and because it's likely to cause civil disturbance. However people who are racist or bigoted will also get criticised by their fellow citizens and may also be ostracised by corporations who don't want to lose sales or profits. It's a free market thing also.
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  4324.  @ruedigerpreiss9307  The thing about Assange that disturbs me is that he seems to have his own agenda, and he does release things selectively to support that agenda. For instance he is a Trump supporter and selectively issued stuff on Hillary Clinton during the election. As he is a Trump supporter that should stand him in good stead once he faces the American justice system, no doubt.
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  4325.  @ruedigerpreiss9307  From The New Yorker' But one irony is easy to discern: Assange clearly believed that a Donald J. Trump Presidency would benefit him, and yet it was the Trump Administration that sought to redefine WikiLeaks as a “non-state hostile intelligence service”—an organization that did not belong within the ambit of journalism. Assange, a devoted opponent of what he describes as American imperial power, has welcomed Trump’s degradation of U.S. norms and institutions.' From The Guardian. 'Trump celebrated WikiLeaks on the election trail, giving them shout-outs 164 times in the last month of the campaign alone. “WikiLeaks – I love WikiLeaks,” he told one rally. He told another “This WikiLeaks is like a treasure trove.” After the election, Trump continued to cite Assange approvingly. “The dishonest media likes saying that I am in agreement with Julian Assange – wrong,” he tweeted during the presidential transition in January 2017. “I simply state what he states, it is for the people ... to make up their own minds as to the truth.” From Salon.com n a twist worthy of an O. Henry story — or possibly a classic Greek tragedy — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's own hubris is what led ultimately to his arrest. For, without Assange, we would likely not have a President Donald Trump, and without a President Trump, Assange would likely not have been hauled out of the Ecuadorian embassy on Thursday, under arrest by British authorities responding to an extradition request from the Trump administration that Assange himself worked so tirelessly to elect. Etc etc. There are lots of similar articles.
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  4326. Almost any media is left of Sky News Australia.
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  4327. What he says makes much more sense as a strategy than anything this government has done.
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  4328. I suppose they won't be soon, so you will get your wish.
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  4329. I think Madness wrote a song about being in De Nile. 'Night Boat to Cairo' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLLL1KxpYMA
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  4330. No. It's Tracy Ullman in a comedy sketch.
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  4331. She wants it to be time for him to talk rather than her. That's o.k.
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  4332. The thing I heard they were unhappy with was that those from the EU given leave to stay were only to get the information digitally online and have no physical proof issued that they can show to employers etc. The government is against giving them physical proof. Why? The Lords do nothing to stop Brexit but just ask for changes to make things work more smoothly. Can't see why the government would be against that and they could get their bill through quickly if they did. If the Lords go, who will be there to save people like Boris from the consequences of their own stupidity. A Brexit MEP has already complained that after 31 Jan there will be no-one from Britain to hold the EU fisheries committee to account. Lol. You couldn't make it up.
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  4333.  @AndyJarman  Mask wearing is not all about the individual wearing it. It's mostly about protecting others. It stops coughs and sneezes from spraying over other people
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  4334.  @jonathanhart8659  Idiot.
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  4335.  @jonathanhart8659  You've done a survey on that have you? I watched John Campbell follow the available science and did the same.
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  4336. Republicans - a party full of sociopaths and obsessives.
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  4337. *couldn't care less.
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  4338. Blather blather blather, let me finish, blather blather blather, I never get the chance to finish Victoria, blah blah blah, blather blather blather. 'From my racist point of view I can't see any racism in the press'. He can't even see the bias in those articles.
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  4339. They probably did but he was too ill to play the part. Lol.
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  4340.  @Jim-so3zm  I also condemn John McDonnell for saying that.
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  4341. Lol. Tommy Robinson is nothing like Mandela. Mandela was an honest broker who was not a racist and who instituted a reconciliation day in S A after he became President of SA. Mandela was respected around the world. Tommy Robinson is just a racist egotist with criminal records for fraud, contempt of court for nearly causing a grooming gang trial to collapse and for personal violence. Mandela fought against apartheid. Tommy Robinson would not obect to apartheid. These idiot Musks are quite ignorant and gullible fools
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  4342.  @fuckbankers  Thatcher's right to buy and she and the Tories preventing councils from building more council housing for many years. Now councils can barely afford to.
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  4343. Politicians always talk about having to make 'hard choices' but it's not as hard for them as it is on the people who suffer the consequences of 'their choices'. They are also always 'learning lessons' from their mistakes instead of avoiding mistakes by listening to expert advice before making daft decisions.
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  4344. If they can't say what Israel hit in Syria, can they say what Israel was hoping to hit? What was its target? Israel is their ally isn't it? Don't they talk together? I'm pretty sure whatever they hit would have been against international law. It was in a country Israel is not at war with.
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  4345. Various reasons including hatred, fear, greed, lack of self control, but quite a bit can be down to gang culture and the 'normalisation' of carrying knives.
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  4346. Why is a Kiwi thinking he's entitled to decide what the BBC should be like?
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  4347.  @vladtheimpaler8995  Why is that racist? The New Zealanders are the same race as the British, generally speaking.
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  4348.  @PaulGreenwald  Sadly general health in the UK is not that good by middle age.
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  4349. No it's a great play.
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  4350.  @inoneear3399  His policy isn't free movement though granted he's not the most restrictive but he did have a policy at one time to protect British workers from employers who use foreign workers to reduce wages. Not sure if that's in the Manifesto. I think something about raising the living wage is. I think he personally wanted out but is conflicted because he knows it will cost jobs and hit living standards if there's a hard Brexit and he knows many in his party and the country want to remain so he's decided to put a jobs protecting Brexit deal to the people (staying in a customs union with the EU) and a Remain option and let the people choose on the basis of those two. Seems honest and democratic to me. He will stay neutral and honour the result. He hope that way to bring a divided country together. The other leaders only want to get their own way, Boris at the expense of the effect on ordinary voters and Swinson at the expense of democracy. He also said he will do that within 6 months. As for who got us in this mess. I could mention Tory PM Heath who got us into the EEC to begin with. Thatcher who confirmed membership of the EU. Cameron who held a Referendum totally unprepared to put any options for leaving, May who held an unnecessary election and lost her majority and Boris whose leave agreement was going through Parliament when he pulled it, because Parliament wanted more than 3 days to read and consider it. That's not the spin they give out though.
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  4351.  @inoneear3399  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTaHz5naEZM
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  4352.  @Robert-ho7ys  Judges often have a good sense of humour. I remember a trial where a guy was being prosecuted for making multiple share applications under different assumed names. He then had to apply for bail and the judge said to the guy's lawyer. Please tell your client that only one application is required.
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  4353. The answer to the question is 'because they are stupid'
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  4354.  @fentonfairway5793  Small minded or what?
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  4355. I expect Trump would like to go back to the 'good old days' of electioneering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6mJw50OdZ4
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  4356. Boris and Truss were British and they trashed the UK economy. The Tory Party is an equal opportunity economy trasher. Don't be obsessed with skin colour.
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  4357.  @mariokart6118  I would not feel anything. I'd be dead. I'm not justifying war though. Far from it, but that is the reality of war. That's why war should be avoided.
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  4358.  @keithchenery8364  I shall correct the errors for you. 'As long as that lot are still in office'
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  4359.  @kmc7876  It would be nice to have someone who is correct about something.
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  4360. Will those countries that don't sell aluminum, but instead sell aluminium be unaffected by the tariffs?
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  4361. The e in discretion is short - like the e in egg. It's a short e in tether also - like the e in egg also
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  4362.  Halli Day  Two can play the sexist game. Look at him. He has wide hips and a big bum.
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  4363. According to Worldometer stats, world Covid deaths have reached 6 million, which is the same as the estimate for deaths in the holocaust. That gives pause for thought. How many would it have been without vaccines?
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  4364. He was standing in the way of Boris's plans to spend spend spend and ignore Treasury rules. Funnily enough Labour was criticised for wanting to spend too much, but now Boris will do it instead.
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  4365.  @safslut01  I know that. I'm not ignorant but I have difficulty finding reputable traders from China on E-Bay or Amazon. They sometimes falsely claim to be local traders when they are not, and when you get to the reviews, the genuine ones, they're not so good. By the way, the 'device' I wrote my 'ignorant' comment on is a Hewlett Packard P.C. An American company I believe, and I've just ordered new headphones from a German company. You may rely on Chinese goods more than me I suspect.
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  4366.  @Cepheidvariable  There are some sanctions though. The UK did tell China it would allow millions (2.9m) of Hong Kong residents to come to the UK, if China persists with imposing its new security laws on Hong Kong, and the UK has also blocked Hua Wei from being part of its 5g roll out. I dare say China might lose nuclear reactor contracts in the UK also. This is ironic by the UK government though, because they have just said they themselves will be breaking international law by unilaterally legislating to change articles in a Brexit withdrawal agreement they signed up to with the EU at the end of last year.
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  4367. America is a bigger country. Give Trump a chance. He will soon cause it to spread unless the state governors prevent it.
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  4368. Not being able to get GP appointments is not to do with 'an exploding population' which is dog whistle language for blaming immigrants, it's because so many GPs were near retirement age and are retiring and not enough newly trained GPs are in the pipeline. More were needed anyway because of an ageing population. The government has known about this for a long time but hasn't planned for training enough new ones to fill the vacancies. There is also a lot of backlog pressure for appointments from people who postponed them during Covid lockdowns or who have long Covid.
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  4369.  @indigohayo  You can't scam people into becoming ill and dying in larger numbers than ever. What planet is our head on?
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  4370. A whole channel of airheads does not appeal, so they have to bring back The Mouth.
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  4371. Fascism doesn't really serve the workers in the end.
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  4372. * properganda as opposed to improper ganda? At least learn to spell the word if you are going to bandy it about. The word is propaganda, but this is not propaganda, it's science.
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  4373.  @jeffreyjoshuarollin9554  119
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  4374. Not paying workers for work done is a form of theft. Remind me again of the punishment for theft under sharia law. I don't know why certain middle eastern countries seem to love these high rise buildings. They are terrible places to be if they go on fire.
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  4375. Trump still won't condemn Putin and claims to have 'saved' NATO. Lol. What a comedian.
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  4376.  @colinsmith1288  I don't think Germany will go bust. It's the strongest economy in Europe.
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  4377.  @iguiste23  Trump was also an admirer of Putin and even now won't condemn him. If Trump shuts down gas to Germany or Europe, where is he going to get the money to fund his war?
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  4378.  @WildPhotoShooter  What did Trump ever do or say that suggested Putin was an enemy? Haven't you noticed that Trump admires all the worst dictators of the world? He would love to have had that much control. He would have loved to shut down his opponents voices. He never admired any democratic leaders. He criticised them for being 'weak'. He refused to shake the hand of Angel Merkel. That's not 'keeping friends close'.
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  4379.  @WildPhotoShooter  You can't judge Trump's attitude just on one statement to Germany. Putin's agents actively worked to get Trump elected by spreading fake news, and during the election campaign Trump openly, publicly, asked Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's emails.
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  4380.  @WildPhotoShooter  I think Trump and Putin try to use each other, perhaps seeing some mutual advantage in that, but some people thought Putin had some hold over Trump, some blackmail material. Whether he does or not, Trump's attitude towards Putin was unusual for an American President.
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  4381.  @jugbywellington1134  I couldn't trust a word that comes out of that man's mouth since he even lies about what he himself has said previously. Also I'm very glad to no longer have him in the news on a daily basis since having his tweets always to read was a constant torture. It's a more peaceful life when he's out of the news.
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  4382.  @jugbywellington1134  No one's worse than Trump. He's not really a believer in democracy and would do all he can in office to undermine it. He's already demonstrated that with his attitude the the election result and his encouragement of the storming of the capitol. He's a populist who can persuade people that he's on their side but his only real interest is in gaining and keeping power and whatever is to his own advantage. He's also very corrupt. I didn't vote for anyone as I'm not American and therefore not eligible to vote in US elections.
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  4383. How is he saving the planet?
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  4384.  @zuikalee  In the West you can just vote for it, but not enough people vote for it. It's not a popular idea.
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  4385.  @zuikalee  In reply to your last comment which does not appear here, China is breaking the agreement of 2 parallel systems for a certain timescale, that they signed up to when taking over Hong Kong. China has a very bad record of oppression at home, in Tibet and in relation to the Uyghurs.
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  4386. Do you mean 'lass'?
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  4387. Rishi Sunak is probably more honest and has more integrity but he's very right wing and he's just appointed Suella Braverman to the Home Office, a woman lawyer who has no integrity and no respect for the law when it clashes with her political interests.
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  4388. Reform UK have hardly any brain cells between them and would be worse even than the Tories. They rely on using popular prejudices to gather support but keep on voting for them as it helps Labour. There might have been a Winter of discontent under Labour but it was better than 14 years of austerity ending in a sclerotic economy.
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  4389. *half
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  4390. Sonnet 29
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  4391. Two massive egos? Can't see that happening.
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  4392.  @mattstuart2550  You're joking. He achieved nothing as London mayor except self publicity. Name something good he did as London Mayor. He is in fact so manipulative as P.M that Brexiteers can't even see his ploy is to go for a hard Brexit at the end of the day. Farage sees it now, but Brexiteers are generally too dim to see it.
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  4393.  @nasskhan4543  It seems to have, but what measures did Boris take to get it down, or was it just a lucky co-incidence for him?
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  4394.  @nasskhan4543  By then the Tory cuts had killed off a lot of Youth clubs and leisure centres and had cut 20,000 police jobs.
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  4395.  @mattstuart2550  He changed the definition of affordable homes so they included affordable homes to rent, so they were not directly comparable with his predecessors figures.
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  4396.  @mattstuart2550  You can see what he's telling you he wants to do. Not what he wants to do and even if he wanted to do what he was telling you, is he capable of doing it and will it bring any advantage to the average person. No.
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  4397.  @mattstuart2550  Ken Livingstone introduced the Oyster travel card and the congestion zones. Sadiq Khan increased the London Living Wage, froze tube fares and introduced 2 journeys for one price bus fares. He is taking measures to cut down on road pollution, has increased stop and search and poured more money into policing after the Tories cut police budgets which led to a loss of 20,000 police officers. He didn't have the funds to make up for the enormous government cuts though. They have all tried to build affordable houses. Boris Johnson's promise to fund 20,000 more police officers is just undoing Tory damage although if you read the small print, the funding won't all be used on police officers. Some of it will go on Admin. If Boris has done anything other Mayors 'could not', don't forget he had the backing of a Tory government which always did their best to work against Labour Mayors so as not to allow them to be seen as too successful. There were failing rail services that TfL offered to take over in London but Failing Grayling Tory Transport Minister admitted he didn't allow it because he didn't want them to come under the control of a Labour Mayor - nothing to do with the sense or efficiency of the proposal which was supported by everyone else (outside of the Tory government). Corbyn would do what he says but he won't get the chance because the Tories though performing poorly in office, are good at propaganda and destroying the credibility of any significant opponents.
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  4398.  @mattstuart2550  How would he take us back into austerity when he is against doing that? You must surely know that Labour's policy is to get the best Brexit deal possible which would be one protecting jobs and the economy by staying in the customs union, and they would allow the public to have the final stay between their 'best' deal and remain. So in the end the public will decide but not on any option that would damage the British economy. He is certainly strong in terms of sticking to his principles regardless of the heavy pressure constantly placed on him and the constant attacks. Having someone who tries to look strong by mouthing off and issuing threats is pathetic leadership.
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  4399. 0:30 Even the MPs don't know the difference between woman and women and I see the same all over youtube. What's happened to education?
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  4400. Trump says companies will pay the tariffs. Lol it's the customers that will pay.
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  4401.  @poorang900  Yes, Sorry. In my head I mixed up Lebanon with Libya.
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  4402.  @godislove8740  Lol.
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  4403. And yet they want economic growth which wouldn't easily happen with a reducing population.
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  4404. It's not happening because the opposition wants Boris Johnson to extend or for him to take us out on a hard Brexit. When voters see he's extended or the impact of a no deal Brexit the thinking is that they will vote for the opposition in the next election. If the opposition stops Brexit that will favour Boris and the Conservatives in the next election. They want Boris to be hoist with his own petard or his chickens come home to roost (to put it another way). Boris on the other hand is trying to set up a scapegoat to blame for any failure of his.
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  4405.  @justinb3574  It depends how much resource you want the country to put into sport. Is it really important enough to spend more than the USA and China when we are in debt and the economy is suffering. The USA is bad at soccer because so much more money goes into other sports and football (soccer in the USA) is not the main sport young boys get obsessed with growing up such that they practise, practise, practise in that sport more than any other. I'm not sure about China but the reasons may be similar. Most Chinese athletes seem selected and trained by the state. Football talent does not emerge that way. It emerges from the streets and from boys dreaming of being a football star. As for running a distance in under 10 secs, and athlete once told me that there was a physical advantage that black people have that others don't which makes them best at sprinting. It's to do with 2 types of muscle fibre and which type they have more of than others. So the Chinese would probably be at a disadvantage there. Here's an article on it https://strivegymwear.com/muscle-fiber-types/#:~:text=How%20do%20the%20muscle%20fiber%20types%20differ%3F%20,%20%20High%20%206%20more%20rows%20
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  4406. Hopefully the Republican party will have an alternative candidate than Trump but if people want to make the same mistake over and over again, no one can stop them. If Trump ever gets in again he will make sure no one ever gets him out. He will choose a running mate corrupt enough to keep him in power by overturning election results and that will lead to chaos, violence and a civil war and it will be by no means clear that those who believe in the constitution would win that war.
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  4407.  @dh2032  Because he was corrupt, useless and incompetent too but he did know how to appeal to the electorate more than this bunch. Still transparency is better for democracy. Let the dog see the rabbit, let the electorate see the Tories red in tooth and claw.
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  4408. And following Brexit, London will take quite a hit economically.
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  4409. I thought Dima may have been disappointed that his Dad didn't want more regular contact with him and didn't take up the offer of a mobile phone.
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  4410.  @hanzalaomar9915  True. Taliban murder on a smaller scale, probably.
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  4411. @Stephen Felixstowe The thing about Coronavirus is that in severe cases it damages the heart and other organs and it will hasten the death of people dying of other conditions like cancer so it's right to count it as the cause of death. The cause of death is the thing that kills you at the time of death, not the thing that will kill you in the next few weeks, months or years.
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  4412. Do these people want us to end up like India?
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  4413. We won't because we listen to the science rather than to uninformed people.
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  4414. The sad truth is that a lot of the working class vote Tory, even when Labour had Corbyn as a leader who actually promised to do a lot that would have helped the working class. Starmer thinks he has to win some Tory voters back for Labour to get back into government.
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  4415.  @slimytoad1447  No party is going to be a perfect fit for a single individual but understanding the ideologies behind the parties, it's hard to see how the working class ever thought the Tories represented them except in sowing division and encouraging prejudice, and using false notions of patriotism. I suppose in boom times when things seemed to be improving economically, the Tories' philosophy of individuals getting on by hard work would seem valid at the time, but booms are often followed by busts, and who carries main burden of those - the working class. Not voting is no answer. The non voters are just an ignored section of the population.
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  4416. Sewer maintenance is now in the hands of private companies. The more they spend on maintenance the more it reduces their profits and shareholder dividends. Utilities should not be in the hands of private companies or foreign companies. They are too vital to leave to the market. People will now pay for this through rising insurance premiums.
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  4417.  @linsevanderwal9719  The problem with that is that global temperatures have already risen to the extent that many forests have been burnt in forest fires, faster than people are planting - in California, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Russia and other places. Also Brazil is run by a greedy lunatic who is allowing the Amazonian rainforest to be destroyed.
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  4418. This is how I saw the ESL going (if it had gone ahead). It's supported by a lot of gambling industry money, TV money, sponsorship and advertising. The owners love the fact that there's never a threat of relegation so the gravy train is endless. Once a bigger worldwide audience is established including a big American audience, the owners change the name to World Super League and base it in the USA. To make it more exciting for fans and gamblers, and easier for American players to succeed in it, they start to tinker with the rules and get rid of the offside rule. Big celebrity acts perform at half time in certain important matches. Cheerleaders are hired to make up for lack of atmosphere and lack of traditional response from fans. It's no longer football as we know it. Match results are fixed in advance?
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  4419. The officer asked the protesters to move and then called help when he was ignored. They are called 'the force' and their role is law 'enforcement'. While pushing people is not the thing to do, because it can be dangerous, what is law enforcement meant to mean in this situation and how should it be carried out? The video says his record shows he has never shot anyone though he has pulled out his gun on about a once a month basis. People doing these jobs get brutalised by the jobs they are doing and the targets they are set. Community policing is a better option, but it's not much practised in the USA I guess. More black policemen would be another improvement.
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  4420. That's what I noticed when I had to start my inhaler for asthma, increased appetite, wait gain, less active. At least the vet is open and honest about these effects. My doctor just says, an inhaler's effects are topical i.e. not much goes into your system, not enough to cause effects like these.
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  4421. He was a posturing idiot.
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  4422. Isn't the answer to that, that we don't know how thick it is or how big it is?
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  4423. * Our...its....could've...Biden's. Trump attracts the uneducated.
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  4424.  @geejaybee  Trump is good at deflecting criticism. His businesses are vastly in debt and often propped up by Russian investment (probably as a way of laundering their 'dirty' money). Being dependent on Russian money is not a good position for the US President to be in.
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  4425. I just enjoyed two eggs, mmm, and it didn't break the bank because I don't live in the USA.
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  4426. What a stupid woman to think boredom would drive immigrants back to where they came from.
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  4427. Why don't Labour follow Keynesian economics? However to add some balance it doesn't seem that the UK financially is doing worse than the rest of Europe. The pound and the Euro have fallen against the dollar.
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  4428. Though Starmer stayed for the full D Day events.
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  4429. Well they could give it a try couldn't they? It worked in Australia.
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  4430.  @portman8909  Worry, stress, hopelessness, depression, and low self esteem, can contribute to people not valuing themselves enough to look after themselves.
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  4431.  @kieran5191  How odd. I can't imagine that at all.
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  4432.  @kieran5191  There's certainly a difference between us, cupcake.
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  4433.  @kieran5191  These things are a matter of opinion.
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  4434.  @kieran5191  What are?
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  4435.  @kieran5191  You're a veritable oracle, it seems.
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  4436.  @rogerward3390  In his resignation?
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  4437. Meaning what? He's like the oracle at Delphi, making statements that will sound correct whatever the outcome.
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  4438.  @louisasmiles  😄
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  4439. * Elizabeth * Beaufort
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  4440. She did say many of the poor are in work. There is downward pressure on wages that are not keeping up with inflation now.
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  4441. It's funny the way Americans pronounce the word vaccines as VakSEENS. In Britain it's VAKseens.
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  4442. That's not the missing general. The 'missing' general is either the one at the top of the table between the 2 flags or the one sitting on his left (I remember them from an earlier picture) but like the reporter says, we don't know when this film was taken.
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  4443. I'm guessing she won't be happy to lose Scotland to independence though, as a result of Brexit, as she's half Scottish and spends her Summer hols there.
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  4444. Needs must.
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  4445. It's the beginning of a coup attempt by the Queen to assert the King's authority to get rid of the Gloucesters. The Duke of Gloucester was Regent when the King was young. Now the King is an adult Gloucester should not still be ruling him but the King is a weak character and does not assert himself. The Queen is a stronger character and stages this bit of power play with them as a prelude to taking them down the with the help of some courtiers who support her. You don't see their downfall here in this scene. It's just the beginning of it. Basically the Queen and courtiers say the Duke of Gloucester should resign his position. They blame him for all the bad things going on in the country and accuse him of being incompetent and corrupt. The Queen tries to assert her authority over the Duchess of Gloucester by getting her to pick up her fan, the action of a servant. The reaction of the Duchess seals her fate (later).
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  4446.  @mrfix-it2728  They are the most useless. Even Farage could not get himself elected as an MP.
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  4447.  @mrfix-it2728  He's not in UKIP now though.
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  4448. Many Americans seem to think guns are the answer to everything. Sadly you can't shoot the virus, but a lot of people seem not to believe what they are being told about the virus.. They think it's fake news, that it's just flu, or it doesn't exist. Their actions will just result in them shooting themselves in the foot, metaphorically speaking.
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  4449.  @shadowmoon7337  *there
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  4450.  @thewhitepatch2730  * what's * you're
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  4451. The UKIP party had a purple version of the British flag with a pound sign on it, and GB news itself uses a distorted version of the British flag. I don't remember a great hoo ha about that. This whipped up hysteria about the colours of the England cross of St George on the England kit is fake.
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  4452. Which President was best on the environment? Who introduced most of the regulations that Trump is overturning?
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  4453.  @fourwinds9947  It would indeed be painful if you had the flue depending on where you had it. Let's hope it would be nothing more than the flu.
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  4454. Is there anyone on here who is to the left of Genghis Khan?
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  4455.  @olawcristophersoun1373  Or to quote the whole poem from a man who knew this 500 years ago. 'No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thine own Or of thine friend's were. Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.'
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  4456.  @hod2116  Interesting that two such different countries use the same name with the same unusual spelling.
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  4457.  BradleyUK58  He said members of the public I think. Probably too modest to give their names or hang around.
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  4458.  @hod2116  It translates from Welsh to John in English also.
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  4459.  @hod2116  At first I thought the guy might be half Welsh until I realised that the name Ioan is used in more than one country. Then that fact itself interests me. Is it a coincidence or are there linguistic connections between the countries using that name. I've not heard before that Ioan it comes from Hebrew (I suppose John does), so maybe the links are just from the bible rather than from any other linguistic connections.
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  4460.  BradleyUK58  Once the police got there they would but no-one could stop them leaving before that.
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  4461. You may not be a millennial but you can't spell 'instantaneously'. This is the 'alienation' created by unrestrained capitalism. It's not totally the parents' fault when the parents have less and less time with their kids while they are working long hours or at several jobs in order to keep their heads above water and when the parents are fighting an uphill battle against all the messages coming to kids from other sources in the media. It's the same as trying to teach kids 1940s values when they grew up in the 1960s. In the past people may have suffered stress but at least they suffered it in a more humane atmosphere. More and more now people are treated like robots. I saw things getting worse and worse over the years. More and more cuts to jobs without the work being cut and so the remaining workers have more and more to deal with. Pay falling below inflation levels. Employers not caring whether you do a good job any more, only whether you make maximum money for the shareholders. Knowledge and experience is not valued. There's a checklist you can follow instead and don't deviate from that no matter what. More and more senior people don't know what they are doing. They are just good talkers and good presenters but it's all superficial. They are often rewarded purely for cutting costs and jobs . The people who do know what they are doing are not listened to and leave or retire. Maybe adults and schools don't teach millennials this because they don't want to depress them too early in their childhood.
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  4462. * Fluffy
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  4463.  @woodie3030  Never heard of that one.
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  4464.  @iamjeromeabel  Very probably that is a factor but another browser worked better than chrome.
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  4465.  @iamjeromeabel  No.
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  4466. The cringe is meant to be there. This is power play between the Queen and the Duchess of Gloucester. The Queen meant to embarrass and humiliate her. The Duke of Gloucester has been the ruler in effect as the King was too young at one time but now he is grown up but is still a weak character. The Queen is a stronger character than the King and she and her allies are determined to get rid of the Gloucesters. Even the Queen's crying at the end is an act to show up the Gloucesters. It's the start of their fall from power.
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  4467. 'I love scaring humans. It's fun. Here's some payback for centuries of whale hunting'.
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  4468. You don't care about a plot to overthrow democracy? Perhaps all those ancestors should never have struggled to achieve it in the first place.
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  4469. It's about putting issues back to the electorate but the voters for both main parties are so divided over Brexit it's anyone's guess how things would turn out.
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  4470. Who? Bernie has principles and beliefs. He's not a money grabber like Musk or Trump.
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  4471. Not so. There was a great attempt to get Muslim communities, for instance (who are not necessarily immigrants, by the way) to vote for Galloway against Starmer's candidate by dirty tricks such as whipping up discontent over the teacher who upset some in the Muslim community, and by emphasising that Starmer has a Jewish wife and children being raised in the Jewish faith. Also Boris Johnson promised the constituency more money if they voted Conservative. In the last election the right got almost as many votes, split between Conservatives and Brexit parties but Brexit wasn't standing a candidate this time. Galloway split the vote on the left this time. So all in all the Tories should have won it. This was a good performance for Labour to hold it.
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  4472. Most spiders are female.
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  4473. @Chef Wes It's 'anyway' in Europe, not 'anyways'.
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  4474.  @batuhanyayla7214  This league will destroy football. Football is not about a super league floating in space with no connection to national and local clubs and fans.
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  4475. Chelsea and Manchester City are pulling out of the ESL now
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  4476. Probably a group of right wing nutters. You find them in all countries.
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  4477.  @pearlford121  Evidence?
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  4478. It's hardly a cherry.
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  4479. What a load of ignorant bigotry. Ours is a largely white labour voting area in London. People don't vote on ethnicity but on track records and policies, as it should be if using one's intelligence.
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  4480. Labour will get it out, if it gets the chance.
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  4481. How's his proposed takeover of Canada going to go down with King Charles III next time he want to visit the UK?
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  4482. You know the Russians boast about influencing that Brexit vote saying 'they completely crushed Britain'
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  4483. I think we have more cases than 1600. The UK is only testing and diagnosing those who end up in hospital now. Anyone with symptoms who is told to stay at home, is not tested. The government estimates that in reality there are between 5,000 - 10,000 cases in the UK now. Germany also probably has more ventilators and intensive care beds. We have 4,000 intensive care beds and many of them are in use for people after serious operations.
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  4484.  @lechatel  Employing lefties does not automatically mean the news is not fact checked. They employ righties too, by the way. I do think lefties are more open to having their views challenged than righties are. Righties seem to think it should not be allowed and get mightily offended by different opinions. Their instincts don't seem democratic.
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  4485. Not as scary as places where ownership of guns outnumbers the population count.
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  4486. He doesn't Gaetz it, does he? You wouldn't want this guy as a neighbour. He's a nasty bit of work.
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  4487.  @Cetoute32818  They would not take you unless your symptoms were severe, and if your symptoms were severe you would need treatment in hospital.
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  4488. Unless you don't have a driver's licence or a passport. Then you have to apply for a special ID card from the council. Too few people can be bothered to vote as it is. More deterrents or barriers don't help the democratic system.
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  4489. *to vote
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  4490. How do you know? The only people with dark skin shown in this video are members of the police raid squad.
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  4491.  @lauralishes1  No what wasn't? Where in the video do you see the skin colour of the arrested person? Please let me know the video time for that?
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  4492. *inconvenient
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  4493. After my Pfizer booster I had tiredness, headaches, sneezing and a runny nose for longer than usual. The trouble is I'm allergic to our cat and dust and those symptoms also include sneezing and a runny nose. I did a lateral flow test that did not work. It showed no result, but I'm immunocompromised and retired so I don't go mixing with a lot of people outside of my household.
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  4494. Well you can't 'do' anything until you are in government. As the 'opposition' you can only try to hold the government to account, but in local government those councils that are Labour will have a track record.
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  4495. He is appealing to the worst instincts of the Tory Party membership and the ERG. Dictionary definition of vilify. speak or write about in an abusively disparaging manner: synonyms: disparage · denigrate · defame · run down · revile · berate · belittle · abuse · insult · slight · attack · speak ill of · speak evil of · pour scorn on · cast aspersions on · criticize · censure · condemn · decry · denounce · pillory · lambast · fulminate against · rail against · inveigh against · malign · slander · libel · conduct a smear campaign against · spread lies about · blacken the name/reputation of · sully the reputation of · give someone a bad name · bring someone into disrepute · discredit · stigmatize · traduce · calumniate · impugn · slur · contemn · derogate · vituperate · asperse · vilipend
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  4496. What a strange accent you have. It sounds like someone with a London accent trying to imitate a posh accent.
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  4497. He was too much of a Tucker for them. His name turned out to be rhyming slang.
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  4498. There's a lot of manspreading. Does he harm anyone else or not? Perhaps that's the only important thing.
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  4499.  @Woke_Invaders  Not really. The comment is implying that black people are stereotypically shirkers or lazy.
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  4500. Rees-Smugg blames the cuts in youth services on local councils, ignoring the fact that the Tory government has made huge cuts to the central grant to local government since 2010 forcing such cuts. What would it take for Rees-Smugg to show some emotion or empathy? He's like an alien from another planet.
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  4501. You voted for it so don't be miserable, vote differently. Your culture is not going away if you have it. Dubai is basically a desert with soulless materialistic infrastructure on top. In Dubai your culture does not apply, your democratic freedoms don't apply.
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  4502.  @kikihapexamendiosisaklepto7397  He plans to resign as party leader but not resign as P.M until Autumn to allow time for a leadership election. He should be making a statement at 12.30 p.m. (about 15 mins time).
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  4503. Doesn't it just swing from one extreme to another before settling on equality?
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  4504. Covid is showing up the snake oil salesmen for who they are.
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  4505. Behaving like fascists. The finger wagging reminds me of Hitler and Mussolini.
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  4506.  @Garth-p5w  Great isn't a judgement word. It refers to the fact that the islands were called the British Isles and the larger of the two was Great Britain (great as in large).
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  4507.  @hanskuijsten2380  Or the 'Keeping Farage in Employment party'.
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  4508.  @gwenstone8171  I don't mind at all.
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  4509. Snob much? Look at the idiots and ignorant that Johnson appointed.
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  4510.  @NobbingNobby  You said she knows about paying/not paying.
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  4511. All we're headed for now is trade wars.
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  4512. What's the matter with you?
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  4513.  @pw6295  Calm down. There's no coercion involved.
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  4514.  @pw6295  The only common global element is capitalism which is an economic as well as political system but there's no global conspiracy. Countries can't even unite or agree on how to stop war or save the planet from global warming. They are not capable of a global conspiracy and involving everyone in the science, medical and political communities, agreeing on it. Yes life is rather hellish for many at the moment but it's because they are trying to protect the population and the health services from the pandemic. It's not as bad as you say though. People can leave home for exercise and essentials. They can go to work if they are unable to work from home. Vaccination is not compulsory. The job losses are awful but many jobs and businesses are promoting themselves online now. I've heard of local collections of shops grouping together to do it. Robotics will take many jobs in future whether there's a pandemic or not and Brexit will take more. People who don't understand the dynamics of the time, will lump everything together and call it a global conspiracy. It's simpler to understand and accept that way isn't it?
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  4515.  @pw6295  A Breitbart man. Huh!
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  4516.  @pw6295  I meant Delingpole who you referred to. From googling: 'James Mark Court Delingpole is an English writer, journalist, and columnist who has written for a number of publications, including the Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and The Spectator. He is executive editor for Breitbart London, and has published several novels and four political books. Wikipedia'
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  4517.  @pw6295  He's not denouncing. He's warning against. Compulsory vaccination does not exist. There have been 'suggestions' that people who've been vaccinated will be able to do stuff that those who have not been vaccinated won't. It's a suggestion at the moment, that's all, but I've no sympathy for this guy. If you look at all the things he rails against, he doesn't seem to support any measures against Covid at all. You can listen to 'the great fount of wisdom' and what he said in the commons, here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20BAY69UTyo If idiots like him and you had complied with the guidance to begin with there would be no need for lockdowns and tiers now.
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  4518.  @vijayafernando1  If that were true it must be the ' I Saw You Coming' care homes. Lol, They could be looked after at home with support for a fraction of that amount.
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  4519.  @misc.endeavours8343  Ventilators were a last resort for the sickest people likely to die, but ventilators can't save many of them. Given that the number of ventilators were limited, they would hardly be putting people on them unless there was no other choice.
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  4520.  @FluidLifeWays  As long as AI produces enough to enable the wealthy to live comfortable lives, the lives they want to live, they won't have to sell anything to anyone will they?
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  4521. Biden said in his speech that he had made healthcare reforms.
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  4522.  @leemendez7876  How exactly will sick people fight back and who will look after the sick if everyone gets sick and hospitals are overflowing. It's not less deadly than common flu. I've had flu plenty of times and had pneumonia and I know which one I'd never want again. Covid often involves pneumonia and other bodily damage. My brother in law had a stroke while ill with Covid and has had 2 more strokes since. How will people with other serious diseases such as cancer and heart disease get treatment if the hospitals are full of Covid patients and what staff there are are all diverted to caring for them.
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  4523.  @VladimirOnOccasion  That's stupid, Comrade Vladimir. I was treated for cancer in the last few months and I wasn't counted as a Covid case. You're only a Covid case if you have a Covid positive test result.
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  4524.  @VladimirOnOccasion  That's from someone who doesn't understand the significance of the information they have. Here is the answer to that putting it in context:.'There has been a lot of talk on social media about "false positive" test results after several commentators suggested they might be seriously skewing the coronavirus figures - but that is based on a misunderstanding of the impact of false positives. Talk Radio host Julia Hartley-Brewer has claimed that "nine out of 10 of the positive cases of Covid we are finding in the community when we do random testing, when anyone just puts themselves forward, will be wrong. They will not be people who have got coronavirus." Could it be true that 90% of positive results from tests in the community - that means tests not carried out in hospitals - are false? The answer is "no" - there is no way that so-called false positives have had such an impact on the figures. Hartley-Brewer referred to both "random testing" and "anyone [who] just puts themselves forward", which are different things, and the difference between them is important. Also, there are many other signs that the rising number of positive tests is truly reflecting the virus spreading, for example a subsequent rise in Covid hospitalisations. What is a false positive? A false positive is when someone who does not have coronavirus, tests positive for it. No test is 100% accurate - there will always be some people who test positive when they do not have the disease, or test negative when they do have it. False positives in any testing programme are important - especially when there is low prevalence of a disease - because they could potentially make us think there are significantly more cases of something than there really are. The false positive rate usually refers to the number of people who are not infected but get positive results, as a proportion of all the people tested who really don't have the virus. We do not know what the precise rate is though. Dr Paul Birrell, a statistician at the Medical Research Council's Biostatistics Unit at the University of Cambridge, says: "The false positive rate is not well understood and could potentially vary according to where and why the test is being taken. A figure of 0.5% for the false positive rate is often assumed." Randomness is the key The most important thing to know about the impact of false positives is that it varies hugely depending on who is being tested. What Hartley-Brewer said confused the idea of random testing with community testing for Covid. Those are two different situations, and false positives have a very different impact in each case. If you tested 1,000 people at random for Covid-19 in early September, for example, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) infection study suggests you should have expected one of them to actually have the virus. With a false positive rate of 0.8% - a figure used by Ms Hartley-Brewer and within the broad range of what we think might be the actual rate for community testing - you would get eight false positives. So in that context, it's true that roughly 90% of positives would be false. But - crucially - the people going for community testing for Covid-19 (at places such as drive-through centres) are not a random sample of the public. They are people who have symptoms, are in care homes or are in hot-spot areas. PA MEDIA Figures for late September from Public Health England show that 7% of community tests were positive. That means if 1,000 people were tested with a false positive rate of 0.8%, eight would be false positives, but 70 would be true positives - the vast majority. So the daily case count is not being skewed significantly by false positives. There will also be some false negatives, meaning that some people who actually have Covid are not being counted. When we put it to Hartley-Brewer that she had misinterpreted explanations of the impact of false positives, she pointed us to other articles that also discussed the impact on random samples of the population, rather than on people who are much more likely to have the virus. There are other signs of real positive results People do not get admitted to hospital by false positives, so if more people are in hospital with Covid, then you can be pretty sure that is due to genuine cases. The same is true of the number of deaths. Dr Birrell says that to be certain cases really are increasing, the daily case count "should always be considered alongside other information sources, such as the hospitalisations or deaths, or the community surveys run by the ONS or REACT".
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  4525.  Elijah Craig  👍 I hope you are feeling better now.
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  4526.  @VladimirOnOccasion  You were silly to miss a medical appointment for the sake of a Covid test. I went for an operation a few months ago after being cleared by a Covid test and I'm glad I did so. They have to protect the non Covid hospital areas from Covid so that they can carry on with treating non Covid patients without fear of spreading the virus. Lots of health workers have also died before they had adequate PPE and we should not put them at risk of getting Covid.
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  4527.  @VladimirOnOccasion  P.S You are not British are you, because we spell words like cancelled with 2 lls. Spelling it with one l is an American feature.
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  4528. Trump and Putin accuse other people of their own sins. Who is still being fooled?
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  4529. And what is the Tory government going to do about that? Nothing.
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  4530. I think someone else left the dog there, without her knowledge, as a red herring - someone she knows well. She may never have been by the river at all.
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  4531. No one 'unleashed a virus'. It spread as viruses do when they are behaving like viruses.
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  4532.  @BB-rn6so  I've done loads of research. Unlike you, I don't just look at conspiracy theory sites.
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  4533.  @BB-rn6so  You realise the President of the USA is a lying toe rag don't you and that Mike Pence is his dimwit acolyte? Kerry Mullis died in 2019 before the Covid 19 pandemic was known about.
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  4534. Stupid
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  4535. BBC didn't write this. It's Tracey Ullman's work. Is BBC supposed to act as censor? Nothing could be funnier than Trump himself.
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  4536. Comedy has always satirised powerful people.
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  4537. This is really a Boris fan channel.
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  4538. Is she wondering how much she could get for flogging it off? Dorries for P.M? This is the nightmare scenario. I don't know who would be worse, her or Braverman.
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  4539. Grant Shapps recently confused 425,000 with 425,000,000 recently on stamp duty. I don't suppose he'll get the same hostile reaction.
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  4540.  @Muckylittleme  No. That's not true.
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  4541.  @johnbradshawe1263  Then self implode.
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  4542.  @Muckylittleme  Well they still are going to offer a Brexit deal (a sane one) in a further Referendum, so that is offering Brexit to the people, but many people have realised in 3 years what a mad move a hard Brexit would be and how there'll be no gain from it for the average person.
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  4543. Yes. A lot of the problems they have, they have created for themselves.
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  4544.  @evolassunglasses4673  He was so hammered by the media and traditional Labour voters did not identify with him because he had an international outlook, didn't have an obsession with immigration, came from the south of England and not from traditional working class roots. Not many of them read his manifesto to see how well his policies would have benefited them. In terms of Brexit he offered people a choice, a new vote on the proposal now that people had more information and could see what the proposed deal was under Theresa May, with a choice of options from Remain, to various other Brexit options. Unfortunately by then people were so fed up with the length of time Brexit was taking they didn't want any further lengthy procedures and leavers didn't want to risk the referendum result being overturned in a further vote.
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  4545. 6:04 It is ALSO about political and economic management, because you can do most for the most if you manage the economy and the finances in such a way as to be able to maximise what you can spend on your programmes. In other words economic or financial mismanagement does not help the cause of socialism. It can set it back. Manage it well for the benefit of all, not for the benefit of the few. I understand that financial management is not the main thing to engage or excite people but it must be there in the background. In what you do you and the way you carry things out you shouldn't neglect it. Mismanagement is the one thing that will get you voted out of office quickly unless you can lie about it and hide it as well as the Tories do, but since Labour is always accused of mismanagement, its enemies will be on the look out for it.
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  4546. World trade is war by proxy, and the UK has gone into battle having stripped itself of all weapons.
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  4547.  @hobnobmarine  Profound thought there.
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  4548. *woman (singular)
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  4549. Nearly one in 2 people found it hard to put their cross in the right box in elections and referendums.
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  4550. Just before 19:59, he said the decision to sack is human not auto-system based but he neatly skips whether the info leading to the sacking decision is auto-system based.
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  4551. Not really but she sees him as being someone who can be useful for her.
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  4552.  @paulcolville5972  If he were talking to me he'd be as stupid as he looks. I'm retired.
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  4553.  @paulcolville5972  I could watch it all day is a saying. It's not literally meant. Everyone fills their days but they don't all have a choice about what they fill them with.
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  4554. Every video of Diane Abbott I've ever seen on youtube has been full of racist comments. it's amazing to think she's put up with that stuff for 37 years in order to serve as an MP.
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  4555. Re Milo Y. This is what I found by googling Proud Boys. 'The Proud Boys is a far-right organization that admits only men as members and promotes political violence. It has a presence in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Wikipedia' Also previously Milo made comments which were considered to support sex with underage boys. I think that got him kicked off Breitbart . (He resigned as others threatened to quit if he was not fired). https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/21/milo-yiannopoulos-rise-and-fall-shallow-actor-bad-guy-hate-speech
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  4556. Was she speeding and on the phone at the same time and she didn't get a ticket?
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  4557. It's shocking how easily a democracy can be turned into an oligarchy without a military coup. Who knew? Who will stop it?
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  4558. No they don't. TV is not essential for life.
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  4559. No, not strange. It depends on how brutal and psychopathic you are.
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  4560. *perfectly (adverb)
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  4561. They weren't given the response time to engage in debate in this type of format but Boris doesn't debate much anyway. He sticks to his mantra and a few lies with insults thrown in.
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  4562. The Cuomos look so alike I think they must be cloned. Chris Cuomo has quite a red face which reflects his fever.
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  4563. Whole Lotta Love was the first song of Led Zeppelin that I heard on the first Led Zep album that I bought. Pleased to see it up there. I thought for a while the list was going to ignore all their sexy bluesy songs. It's really hard to rank their songs though and I guess no 2 people would come up with the same list.
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  4564. By the general low standard of eurovision songs,this song had a memorable chorus and the ethnic element in the violin playing was interesting and arresting. Jade sung well but Andrew Lloyd Weber's songs can be rather lame and this one wasn't great. However at leas he stopped the u.k being bottom. I just wish we could have a more adventurous sounding song with some good lyrics. It's not beyond us to do that.
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  4565. Had a humour bypass?
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  4566.  @srivatsa9335  Then you've not seen much Brirtish TV. Political satire has been a mainstay of British TV since the 1960s. This is very gentle humour compared to some other shows.
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  4567.  @srivatsa9335  This is a comedy show. Have you never seen one before? Maybe they don't so this in your country but it's common in Western democracies. You are taking it far too seriously. Maybe you don't have a sense of humour. None of the policiticans who are being gently mocked have expressed any distress at programmes like these. It's water off a duck's back to them. They are used to it. The leaders most 'sent up' here are British leaders. After all, Merkel is told by her advisor that she's 'allowed' to roll her eyes at Boris Johnson.
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  4568.  @srivatsa9335  It's no breach of the BBC's charter. I think it's just not your sort of humour.
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  4569. The character of Mulan is from 6th century Chinese folklore. In that folklore she disguised herself as a man to take her father's place in the army and had a distinguished military career.
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  4570.  @devoid4661  Probably not. These are modern interpretations but the idea of shape-shifting isn't new. It occurs in folklore. I believe Loki was a shapeshifter and there are others including Vampires and Werewolves though those are limited in the shapes they change into. Here's an example from Chinese mythology: 'Chinese mythology contains many tales of animal shapeshifters, capable of taking on human form. The most common such shapeshifter is the huli jing, a fox spirit which usually appears as a beautiful young woman; most are dangerous, but some feature as the heroines of love stories.  In one such legend; a snake falls in love with a man, and the story recounts the trials that she and her husband faced.'
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  4571.  @devoid4661  I'm not defending the movie but just saying that the premise of a Chinese girl disguising herself as a man to join the army and succeeding is not a modern idea made up to fit a modern agenda, as some people seem to think, but an old traditional story.
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  4572.  @devoid4661  You don't have to watch bad films.
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  4573. He's talking about fairness, not judging who is bad or good.
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  4574.  @7EiamJ7  That's one opinion but a very right wing laissez faire one. In Victorian times that was the case, but there was so much suffering and early death. Now we have pensions, the NHS and a welfare state as well as some workers rights and it's now illegal to send children to work below a certain age. European countries with good welfare states and the least distance between rich and poor come out highest on the world happiness index (the Scandinavian countries). The gap between rich and poor is growing ever greater in many countries including the UK, and people who work hard don't often become multi billionaires by themselves. They rely on those who work for them to create their profits. Multi national corporations are also very adept at avoiding taxes though they may rely on the state (in the UK) to educate their workers and keep them healthy. When you are a multi millionaire or a billionaire - honestly how much more money do you need? When other people are having to visit food banks due to circumstances beyond their control, that's not a fair society.
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  4575.  @secretsquirrel6124  What crap!. They are buying Fairtrade coffee which is the best price that farmers get on the market. They don't own Fairtrade. It's run by the Fairtrade Foundation which is owned by a number of charities in the UK including Oxfam. They may be selling it at a higher price locally to raise money for something else, but they don't have any control over what Fairtrade pays farmers and farmers who are not signed up with Fairtrade get less than the Fairtrade rate.
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  4576. Desperate.
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  4577.  @saleh6272  Haven't you noticed the 'Billy Boys' and Oswald Moseley. They are real enemies. What episode are you up to? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyq2XWPhl-w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2uNUh1OHas
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  4578. Is that what the bird is saying? It's rather noisy.
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  4579. It could be even less than £2.90 per hour because he keeps saying 'depending on exchange rates' which fluctuate. He keeps talking about 'consolidated pay' rates but it's not normal to count holiday pay and overtime pay as if it bumps up the basic pay per hour.
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  4580. How stupid are Trump voters?
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  4581. Judging by the comments below, Trump was right when he said he could shoot someone in the street and his supporters would still follow him.
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  4582. It's not Isabella of France. It's Margaret of Anjou.
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  4583. Callous comment.
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  4584. Did the leavers know the consequences or implications of what they voted for when they voted? If you offered to buy a house would you feel it fair to be compelled to continue with the purchase if the survey then informed you it was unsound?
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  4585.  @teddansonLA  They certainly did not. Even though a lot of the Good Friday Agreement depends on EU membership, not just because of border issues, but also because of Human Rights legislation which the Tories are always complaining about and suggesting they would like to undo in the UK.
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  4586. At least the UK were in the final, Australia. Sore losers you? The main thing with the choosers of the UK song is that they choose crap songs and crap acts. All the flag worship in the world would not allow such entrants to win, and it's not about them being gay, as the winner was non-binary and Ireland which came high up the rankings also had a non-binary singer.
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  4587. He isn't. He's playing the Duke of Gloucester who is also the Lord Protector. The King is sitting on the throne next to the Queen and is played by Tom Sturridge.
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  4588.  @thedead073  Not crying. Just observing.
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  4589. @al2343 The information on this event says that those self-identifying as black are eligible. How can you challenge someone who self-identifies and doesn't this event suggest that skin colour is the most important thing in judging people? Is that what black people have objected to as racism? Personally I've no objection to it as it's only for a couple of days, but it's mighty hard to justify philosophically without straying into dodgy ground.
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  4590.  @sentinal2343 What do you expect me to see?
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  4591.  @sentinal2343  Do you not know that self-identification does not depend on looks?
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  4592.  @sentinal2343  Don't get annoyed. That's not my aim. I was just debating. Take care.
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  4593. @al2343 What type of delusions would those be? I'm speaking theoretically not personally. You seem angry with all those exclamation marks.
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  4594.  @Jack-fs2im  The British public will have to pay higher prices for fresh food imported from Europe and other places because of tariffs imposed when we leave the EU. We'll be on WTO trade terms then. All our trade deals as part of the EU (over 40) will lapse immediately on leaving the EU with no deal and we've only a handful to put in their place. Trade deals are complex comprehensive agreements that can take years to negotiate. Also a large part of our exports are services and a large part of those are to the EU but they will lose their passport rights to Europe immediately on the first day of leaving the EU with no deal. https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/internationaltrade/bulletins/internationaltradeinservices/2017 We are also not well prepared for a no deal Brexit and we will move from EU membership to domination by the USA as we don't have the size or power to control markets ourselves. Of course you know all this don't you, because you looked into it before deciding that leaving the EU was a good thing didn't you? There's no such things as true independence in today's world and markets. It's an illusion.
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  4595. Sadly price is the biggest factor for most consumers.
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  4596.  @kasegiyabu5030  There won't be any British manufacturing if we have a hard Brexit, unless we set a tariff under WTO terms to protect against unfair competition, but that would put prices up on imports for British consumers and the EU tariff for us would be 40%.
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  4597.  @bobbybrown9570  Ironically those who support hard Brexit for patriotic reasons, and think that the time of the British Empire is when Britain was at its best as well as WW2 etc, and who are proud that Britain has not been defeated for centuries, are about to inflict some of the biggest destruction on Britain in its history without even being informed or aware about the consequences of what they are doing, destroying their own prospects and those of their fellow Britons, and leading to the break up of the UK. Britain will be defeated by the actions of its own people.
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  4598.  @Blazegraze12  I feel I have to try, even if it's wasted breath. So little honest information has been given to the Public of what a post hard Brexit world would be like. I was pleased to see Liam Fox (at the week-end) being honest and realistic about fantasy stuff Boris Johnson was spouting, but that's only because Fox supports Hunt (there's a joke there somewhere). Before then Fox was all gung ho for Brexit. He's open about supporting a deal now.
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  4599. They already said that in the last 4 years. Don't you remember Cameron railing at him to 'go'? That's why he's not overly impressed with a last minute nice few words which are required by tradition.
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  4600. There seems to be no compromise solution that would satisfy both the Irish Republic and the DUP. Unfortunately the DUP has the British government by the short and curlies at the moment while they hold the balance of power in the British Parliament.
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  4601. The Taliban look like they are from a different century to the other Afghans.
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  4602. They didn't say Isabel Oakshott is the partner of Richard Tice of the Reform Party. The Reform Party's candidate had previously been sending sexual texts to a 16 year old. This is probably why he wasn't popular. This was from the Manchester Evening News in November 2022, 'A former Greater Manchester MP who was suspended after he was caught sending lewd texts to a teenage girl has announced his engagement to a woman half his age. Simon Danczuk, 56, represented Rochdale between 2010 and 2017 but was thrown out by the Labour party after the scandal emerged following his marriage breakdown with wife, Karen.' Richard Tice is now whining and looking for scapegoats to explain why the Reform Party did so badly in the election.
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  4603. co-operating not corporations, firing not fire
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  4604. Then are you proposing to do without a democratic system? What do you put in its place? Even Churchill said democracy is the worst system except for all the alternatives.
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  4605.  @ScarsNotFresh  Yes and it was a silly comment. They are not all useless, only the ones in government and that's because Boris J appointed a lot of useless MPs to Ministerial roles so that they would not show up his own incompetence. I do remember Labour governments that achieved things and that can happen again if Starmer lets it.
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  4606. Intelligent comment. (Not)
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  4607.  @thundercity311  It's what kills you that's the defining thing.
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  4608. She's used to dealing with politicians who flannel, spin, obfuscate, don't answer questions, and waste time, so she's developed her questioning style to deal with them. I'm afraid Oprah would be putty in the hands of British politicians if she used her style of questioning on them.Oprah developed her style to deal with celebrities who wouldn't go on her show if there wasn't a certain amount of buttering up. It may be a bit hard on this guy, but the interviewer has got a certain time limit to cover a large subject and wants to elicit as much from him as she can within the time without allowing him to spin things out too much.
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  4609. It shows the disadvantages of relying on 'just in time' supply systems during a world pandemic affecting so many countries' economies. Damian Green here is trying to shift the blame to the government's scientific advisors, saying the government followed their advice but they clearly didn't follow the recommendations from the 2017 pandemic readiness exercise report and the advisors are at a disadvantage in advising the government once it has sat doing nothing for 2 month prior to the spread of the virus around Britain.
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  4610. @UC8SErUCCV8No8aeMtiT-S3A I think it's really sad. What Johnny Depp went through was horrible but away from it he can be happy. She probably never can and never will be happy or have any lasting close relationships other than blood relatives who may feel some sense of loyalty. Throughout this testimony she has a look of discomfort on her face. I wonder what her thoughts are - denial I suppose. Mental illness can be harder to deal with than physical illness - for those that suffer as a consequence.
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  4611. It's a reply from someone who hasn't really taken notice of what's going on, but only what Boris says, which is quite different.
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  4612.  @holyKoreanJesus  I wish I had fast fingers. I always remember the difference between affected and effected from the Latin I was taught a = to and e = from.
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  4613. Leaving the EU without a deal will allow many wealthy investors to carry on pouring their wealth into offshore tax havens to avoid paying tax. That's why they are so desperate to leave now. In January 2020 new EU laws on money laundering come into effect, and they will make it harder for them to avoid tax this way.
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  4614. Not yet. Everyone can't have it at once which is why there is a priority list and the poor will be high up in the priority list if they are classed as vulnerable, healthwise.
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  4615.  Infinity Stones  You're all 'tu quoque' ain't ya. You certainly can't be accused of wanting anyone to think you're clever.
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  4616. Inquiries are set up as independent inquiries. The government can't legally control them.
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  4617. 'I'm not a tax expert' seems to be the standard reply. Committee: 'Are you aware that case law in the US and the UK says that the sale takes place in the country where the customer is? Reply: 'I'm not aware of the rules, ' well he should be after this session and as Vice President, why is he so ignorant? They're simply tax evaders and HMRC should get after them. Also, it's no good having select committees if the government ignores their conclusions.
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  4618.  @veggie42  Well people have to vote for a party that believes in funding the NHS properly.
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  4619. No. H may have scripted questions and guests may have prepared some stories but Graham knows when to keep quiet. He reacts spontaneously (e.g to a drunk Mark Wahlberg) allows for spontaneous conversations among guests. Plus the guests laughing at each other seems genuine most of the time. Here's a good example of Graham allowing for spontaneous guest interaction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPuqNBeL7_0
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  4620. Nonsense. Putin tried the same thing in Salisbury, England and his agents were caught on CCTV. They were identified and admitted being in Salisbury at the time. One of them had recently been presented with a medal by Putin.
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  4621. @Crying Shame We are not talking about the police 'overlooking things' here and don't forget other agencies were involved in the investigation too and the government had a great interest in discovering who was poisoning its citizens with a poison originally developed by the Russian government (its very name indicates that) and not available on the open market.
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  4622. @Crying Shame Speak for your own country. It wasn't the public authorities who identified the Russian agents anyway. They were caught on CCTV, admitted they were there (but said they had gone as tourists - all the way from Russia to see Salisbury cathedral, would you believe) and then a website called Bellingcat matched their images, through the internet, to 2 of Putin's agents. He had even recently rewarded one of them with a medal.
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  4623.  @topg_napoleon5203  I'm sure too, but will their existing customers want to buy more or can they find new customers? Not my problem though. Hopefully theirs.
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  4624.  @topg_napoleon5203  I'm sure they always have a plan. Their plans don't always come off as they expect though.
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  4625. What is this lawyer talking about? If the FBI had given Trump warning about wanting to come and search his property, they would not have found those documents.
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  4626.  @jamesdaltrey2878  It's the Tories that are selling off the country. Check who owns the former public sector companies they privatised, Railways, Water, Mail, Steel, Energy and services they outsourced in health. They were also pretty cool with British companies such as Cadbury's, and Fry's being sold off to foreign corporations. They were fine with foreign ill-gotten gains being laundered through fraudsters buying property in England, even if it wasn't to be occupied. Many British farms are now owned by foreign companies. They are even trying to remove workers rights so it's easier for these companies to exploit them and increase profits from them.
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  4627.  @susancurtis1651  That's not so if you consider the cost of not being 'in' or the benefits of being 'in'. The shrinkage of the economy of a Britain outside of the EU has a big cost for us.
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  4628. Well it might be more pleasant than the usual crowds and long queues in Primark.
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  4629.  @acthompson9983  Why not do some research? Check what economists say. Try Michael Posen, an American economist who has worked for The Bank of England. Here are 2 videos. 1) where he's predicting the impact of Brexit and 2) where he's assessing the impact after Brexit. 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa-ZFKzzMvQ&t=156s 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa-ZFKzzMvQ Martin Kennedy of the NFU Scotland mentioned factors affecting Scottish farmers. Among the factors he mentioned was Brexit but BBC Scotland edited it out. I myself heard a discussion on BBC Radio 4 about what is driving price rises in Britain. Supply problems were mentioned and every factor except Brexit. I emailed the BBC to ask if they'd been banned from talking about Brexit. I never got a reply.
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  4630.  @MrMagizMoz  Move on where? It's on the road to nowhere. However WW2 ended and Brexit could end too.
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  4631. The Tories were the dominant political party in these times.
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  4632.  @thomasphilip8916  I'm not sure how you are linking the test to Covid. Tests don't prevent you from catching Covid and it's well known that some people don't have symptoms when they catch Covid. What Covid numbers are fake?
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  4633. Boris Johnson has a hairstyle look alike. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FGV188v_uk&t=75s
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  4634. The vaccine does seem to reduce the amount of serious illness and death among the vaccinated, compared to the unvaccinated.
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  4635. Clarke was always anti-union. He regarded unions as self-interested groups. He didn't see any benefits in them at all, although unions often defend standards that affect public safety and welfare. What's happened to his right eye? It looks infected or damaged, and he's lost a tooth - maybe had a fall?
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  4636. Khan.
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  4637.  @Steve-bj3op  their
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  4638.  @noramartin96  epidemic
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  4639.  @niguel4438  To go along with alternative facts?
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  4640.  @FiveLiver  The rules did change after Brexit. Look it up.
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  4641. Why pointless? It matters to a lot of people.
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  4642. She should have called the police afterwards as he'll just try someone weaker next time.
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  4643.  @johnfarmer3506  For sure.
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  4644.  @nooa69  P.S I have to say I'm feeling particularly good at the moment (touch wood) but that's probably because of regular exercise and losing some weight through care with my diet.
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  4645.  @stephenhunter70  We have to look at the evidence on outcomes then.
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  4646.  @Dbb27  That's interesting and it's good you made it through. It sounds like you may have some 'long Covid' symptoms. I hope things continue to improve for you over time. It seems the vaccine may have helped protect you later. Do you think you also developed some resistance from your first infection that helped with your second, or maybe they were different variants and the second was a milder one? I hope your husband has recovered o.k.
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  4647.  Terry Winter  It's certainly something to be investigated. The booster jab did affect me for about a month. I wonder if some sports people are not taking it easy after vaccination but trying to continue at the same level as before.
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  4648.  @mintee8638  Dr Berg is not a medical doctor. He is a chiropractor.
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  4649.  Terry Winter  The way I look at it is this. The vaccines for some time were the only protection/defence that the world had against Covid. I can understand why they might have played down some of the side effects. Hopefully in the longer term we will see whether any side effects persist or not, but the risk of long term effects from Covid was higher than the risks from the vaccine.
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  4650.  @mintee8638  Just for people to be aware that he's not speaking as someone qualified in the subjects he talks about, except for any chiropractor advice.
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  4651.  @mintee8638  I suggest you read the Wikipedia page on Dr Berg. He has been fined and disciplined for his chiropractor advice. The validity of some of his dietary advice is also disputed.
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  4652.  @mintee8638  There is a Wikipedia page for him Just Google 'Dr Eric Berg Wikipedia'.
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  4653.  @Dbb27  I hope you are getting progressively better now.
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  4654. She looks like a child whose demand for sweets has been refused, and she's trying not to cry.
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  4655. Angela Merkel is a very capable and competent leader. Germany has had far fewer deaths in relation to Covid 19 cases than many other European countries.
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  4656.  @sianthorne9652  A Consultant is the most senior type of doctor in a hospital.
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  4657.  @sianthorne9652  They are keeping their distance from each other. The Consultant has already had the virus, and they both clearly think this is important enough to do this.
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  4658. It goes down in the record (Hansard) which anyone can look up if they want to know the information.
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  4659. It's like a cult.
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  4660. 'Inferior?' How ?
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  4661. Which beliefs have been mocked and vilified?
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  4662. I thought the government had introduced some rule that stopped private landlords from evicting tenants during the lockdown crisis, for about 3 months anyway.
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  4663.  @miacat1727  That's Putin. To him, all Russians are expendable.
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  4664. It's like analysing British humour.
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  4665. If it becomes another Murdoch channel I won't be watching. Boris the vandal.
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  4666. Maybe you dodged a bullet.
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  4667. If you have to pay someone to get a service or favour and it's not a legally required payment, you are bribing them. They are not bribing you.
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  4668. The main thing was that he wanted to keep to Treasury rules about spending - something about balancing the books. That would have got in the way of Johnson's spend spend spend plans and couldn't be allowed. Now he has his hands on the purse strings, Boris will want to share all that lovely loot with his friends and cronies.
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  4669. @Terry O'Conman The BBC has nothing to do with deciding whether to have vaccine passports. They just report things. Are they stupid enough to attack the messenger?
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  4670.  @loveisthekey4310  What are you on about? You make no sense.
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  4671. @Terry O'Conman In your opinion and you don't like to hear bad news. Well there are plenty of channels that will hide it from you. You don't need to close down channels for those of us who want to hear what's going on. If they don't like the BBC don't watch it but in a democracy channels should not be closed down unless they are breaking their own charter or Ofcom rules.
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  4672.  @spadhnik  the NHS is keeping a record of the number.
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  4673.  @peterbrown5685  So is Boris except that I don't think he pays much regard to pre-written lines.
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  4674. It's Bolsonaro's fault. He won't listen to the experts. Bolsonaro is copying Trump but is even worse, if that's possible.
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  4675. I think he meant the Bhutan death march. Andrew Neil showing off his knowledge.
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  4676. No it's not treason. The government trying to force them to break the law is the problem. The civil service code forbids them from breaking the law. Can't believe how ignorant GB News viewers are but they are likely to stay that way by watching GB News and shysters like Rees Mogg.
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  4677.  @Peter-uy3ti  No they are not. They are resisting breaking the law. Your ignorance needs looking at.
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  4678.  @philjames6206  Boris?
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  4679.  illegit  racist.
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  4680. Thank goodness voters voted Trump out, because I think otherwise, by now, he would be doing vengeful generalised purges of anyone who might be able to stop his lunacy in office, and the US would have become a scary place for anyone who was not a Trumpist. He would also have emboldened a very nasty, violent, ignorant and racist section of his followers.
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  4681.  @milcotto4153  I'm sure he would have been tested before diagnosis, as he's a doctor.
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  4682. *check
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  4683. Lancashire is pronounced Lancasheer like all the other shire counties in England.
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  4684. Warlord is the term used for someone who is not part of an official national army but a leader of a rogue army. In what sense is this guy called a warlord? Are they referring to a senior army figure rather than a warlord? What is his rank?
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  4685. Is that meant to be a compliment?
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  4686. Resisting is not a good reason for being shot. What was he shot for? Air fresheners over the back mirror?
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  4687.  @sticknz  Perhaps he was fearful after all the cop shootings and killings of black motorists. He was right to be fearful given that some cops can't seem to tell the difference between tasers and guns.
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  4688.  @Sergei-D  So you're already judging him a liar without waiting for the facts to emerge.
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  4689. He would be alive if the cop had been better trained so she didn't mix up her taser and her gun.
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  4690.  @sticknz  I already responded to the resistance point previously if you read the comments. How much comfort would it be to you if a family member was killed and you were told that there aren't many such killings these days?
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  4691.  @Sergei-D  Well the police don't seem to be correcting the reporting of the 'air freshener' thing. I don't know what 'expired tags' are. I googled them and I'm none the wiser. Is it some kind of car tax payment requirement?
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  4692.  @sticknz  Where are you getting this information from?
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  4693.  @sticknz  O.K lets get the full story and both sides. It will all come out over time. What you say makes it understandable why they would want to arrest him, and why he would try to flee, but he should have been arrested, not killed. It's tragic for the family and the cop if the shooting was accidental, but you can understand why the family is upset and angry. To them it probably feels like summary execution.
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  4694. Democracy. That's what's going on. A concept not well understood or accepted by Tory supporting outsiders.
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  4695. I can't understand why he would want it to win now. Is it selfish motives regardless of the effect on the majority of the population? It must be.
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  4696.  @LtD973  That's not true but having you and others believe it prevents change in this country.
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  4697. That's who people voted for.
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  4698.  @underneonloneliness2  If you didn't vote at all you have no complaint. If you did vote - good for you. To be honest it was never going to be easy. The EU were never going to offer an attractive deal and the Irish border backstop arrangement that could trap us in the EU is not good. It would be better now to have a united Ireland since Northern Ireland actually voted to stay in the EU. That would solve the problem, but the NI protestant loyalists represented by the DUP would probably go ballistic at that and May knows they could bring down her government since she doesn't have an overall majority in the House of Commons and relies on the DUP's support. She lost her majority when she had that totally unnecessary election thinking she could wipe the floor with Corbyn. Her judgement is poor.
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  4699. This is one reason for problems In early 2021, Operose Health, a UK subsidiary of Centene (a US company), took over a group of London practices, AT Medics. They run 32 practices in London and 70 nationwide. Panorama analysed NHS data for 6,500 practices across England. It found: For every 2,000 registered patients, there are on average the equivalent of 1.2 full-time GPs But at Operose practices the average is half that, at a little over 0.6 full time equivalent GPs Operose employs six times as many physician associates as the NHS average, according to NHS data While undercover, Panorama was also told about a backlog of important patient referral documents, often unread by doctors or pharmacists for months. Here's more' A BMA survey has revealed that four out of five locum GPs in England (84%) cannot find work, despite patients waiting weeks for appointments. An overwhelming number of those who responded to the survey said they could not find suitable positions and because of that, more than 50% are expecting to make changes to their work or career plans in the next year. More worryingly, many (33%) have already made definite plans to change work or career paths, and the BMA fears patient access will worsen in England as one-third of respondents (31%) who are planning for change say the lack of suitable shifts is forcing them to leave the NHS entirely. Last year, BMA warned the government that the current ARRS model, which only funds non-GP roles, would exacerbate the GP employment crisis. 71% of respondents blame the ARRS for GP unemployment.'
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  4700. @The Radical Well he complained that he didn't have a say and then turned down the opportunity. Smart or just avoiding accountability? It is an impeachable offence to pressurise a foreign government to dig dirt on a political opponent for favours. That's not a smear. The evidence was available but the senate would not allow witnesses to be called and the only reason for that is that there are more Republicans in the Sentate than Democrats. They didn't do the statesmen like thing. They did the partisan thing of putting party before country.
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  4701.  @iloveamerica53  He complained he didn't get a hearing and then turned down the opportunity to speak when he was invited. It is an impeachable offence to pressurise a foreign country to dig dirt on an opponent for favours. He only got off because the Senate would not allow witnesses to be called because the Sentate is mostly Republican and they put party before country.
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  4702.  @bieituns  I refer to my reply to cha chia..
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  4703.  @rosewhite---  If you like, yes.
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  4704.  @uzumakinagato4912  The evidence was never tested because the Senate would not allow witnesses to be called because the Senate is mostly Republican and put party before country.
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  4705.  @bieituns  Blah blah blah. Absolute twaddle but it makes you happy to believe it.
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  4706. @The Radical Where's the evidence of any offence by Biden or his son? There is none. That's why Trump was trying to dig up evidence but he didn't succeed in getting any or producing any.
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  4707.  @BubuDuduForever  I do like science fiction and it's interesting to see which elements end up matching reality and which don't. 1984 is my favourite for predicting many things which have come to pass, though not in quite such a bleak way.
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  4708.  @manictiger  Is that your prediction?
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  4709. I hate to say it but maybe American Maga supporters need to learn the truth about Trump by having him in power.
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  4710. Surely 'ruminate, cogitate or reflect on that' not 'marinade on that'
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  4711. She is a capable leader. Germany has far fewer deaths in relation to Covid 19 cases than many other European countries.
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  4712. *hassling
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  4713.  @paulm5443  I'm not missing the bigger picture. I thought your comment covered it, so I didn't have anything to add to that, but I 'liked' it.
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  4714. @Steve P I am a free education service. That's better than Grammarly.
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  4715.  @paulm5443  Well you haven't made any mistakes so far.
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  4716. He lends opposition. Opposition is needed in a democracy to hold sitting governments to account.
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  4717. If Commissioners had to resign every time an upsetting crime happened there'd be no stability in the police force.
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  4718. How do they determine who dies 'purely' of Covid? If people have underlying conditions Covid can kill you quicker than otherwise. Covid can cause blood clots, and cause strokes as well as damage to organs such as heart, liver, lungs, kidneys. What then is counted as a 'pure' Covid death?
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  4719.  @aviahveredusa6099  Jumping to conclusions aren't you? Of course I care about those with cancer. I have it myself and had an operation for it only this year (which was delayed for several months because of the virus). I read a lot of non fiction books and I don't watch much TV.
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  4720.  @ASBO_Rob  I'm guessing they may be wanting to sell on some of the vaccines, at a higher price in order to recoup some of their costs. They realised for instance that they could not get PPE at the best price because other countries had cornered the market before them, so I guess they now want to be the ones with the advantage of supplies or they might be thinking that people might need more than one vaccine and want to have some supplies left for next year.
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  4721.  @G22865  They said there 'MAY' never be a vaccine, not that there definitely won't be. She's just trying to downplay expectations in case the tests don't work out but she said 'the results are encouraging'. I think 90 million vaccines are being ordered in advance of the test results so Britain does not lose out in the vaccine market as they did with PPE and I'm guessing they may sell on any surplus ones or maybe they think people might need more than one vaccine.
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  4722.  @datro864  Sky is not the BBC.
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  4723.  @whatafoolbelieves6883  It's not a contradiction. Saying there 'MAY' never be a vaccine is just ensuring there isn't false expectation, because the tests aren't yet complete so the test results aren't in, but she did say 'the results are encouraging'. The government has ordered the vaccines in advance of the test results.
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  4724.  @carenthusiast4254  There are a number of countries working on a vaccine, racing to see who will be the first to produce one. The BBC may have reported what Astra Zeneca said but the world generally needs to wait until test results are available.
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  4725.  @strongerasone2403  Different countries are doing separate research sponsored by those countries I presume. There is some being done in Oxford UK which is one place the government has placed its order I believe.
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  4726.  Bart Perry  Nobody is saying there's a vaccine yet. The woman did say the test results are 'encouraging'. I guess the government has put in an advance order because they don't want to get left behind on vaccines as they did with PPE. If the vaccines don't work though, the order won't be fulfilled.
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  4727.  Yul Hubbart  What are the lies? The government has ordered in advance, vaccines that have not yet been validated by test results.The woman said the results are encouraging, but on the other hand (worst case scenario if tests fail) there may never be a vaccine. Both possibilities exist until the test results are in. Presumably if there's no working vaccine the government won't be paying for one or if it's paid, it will get its money back.
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  4728.  @TheDelicateDesigner06  I don't think they are lying. They can't consider the vaccine suitable for issue until tests prove it works and is safe. I think they are only trying to moderate expectations in case things go wrong but the interviewer could and should have tried to clarify some of this for the viewers.
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  4729. There are many different interpretations of Islam in different countries and each one thinks they are right, I'm sure, but they can't all be right since they don't agree. The oppression of women is really self -serving.
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  4730. 10 to collect.
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  4731. Hasn't Russia bought into Trump's businesses?
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  4732. Do the Tories want personal finance educated consumers when they and their mates can make far more profit from uneducated ones?
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  4733. Surely it's Putin that has created more security risks for Russia now, rather than Ukraine.
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  4734.  @baneofbanes  The quotation marks indicate these are not his own views or views he agrees with, but irony. The laughing emoji is another visual clue.
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  4735. Stupid is as stupid does.
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  4736.  @martinholmes6807  I wear a mask not out of ''obedience' as selfish egomanias would have it, but out of concern for myself and others.
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  4737.  @michaelrobson5480  I have looked into the science. Have you? Masks alone won't stop the virus. Mask wearing has to be combined with social distancing and hand washing, but mask wearing does stop people from sneezing and coughing over each other. I can't understand these childish whingers who seem to think mask wearing is the worst thing in the world. It's better than wearing a ventilator. It's not as bad as being in WWI or WW2.
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  4738.  @michaelrobson5480  Which man mandated them? Any mandating was from government as advised by scientists and medics.
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  4739. The mayor has put more money into policing but can't make up for massive cuts to police funds from central (Tory) government. He has prompted the police to do more stop and search but the police are under great pressure since the Tory budget cuts mean the loss of 20,000 police officers and knife crime, and the causes of it go further back than Khan's time, to Tory austerity cuts in youth services. Knife crime was building up under Boris Johnson. Also the Tories have done very little about gang crime since it first started years ago, probably on the basis that it wasn't affecting Tory voters and was mainly black on black crime. I'm surprised at George Galloway spouting Tory views but Galloway's a bit of a tart. He's never criticised Russia's criminal regime and the number of political opponents the Russian regime has eliminated. He wouldn't be able to speak against the government in Russia as he does here but he's paid to appear on Russia Today TV station, so I don't suppose he wants to bite the hand that feeds him. Boris Johnson wasn't a better mayor. He did nothing worthwhile - just a few useless vanity projects which cost and lost millions. Galloway claims he's not being racist so why does he use the term 'failed experiment'. In what sense is this an experiment? Having a muslim as mayor? If he means that, it sounds racist. For mayor, you have to choose someone who can win as well as someone who is capable. Khan won in the teeth of his opponent, rich man Goldsmith's racist campaign. It's hard to get affordable houses in a year as Galloway well knows because you have to go through procedures and get developers to co-operate. The picture is not as bad as Galloway maintains: https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/news/sadiq-khan-falling-short-on-affordable-housing-promises-says-scathing-report-59285. He is at least doing more than previous Mayors including Boris Johnson. What does George Galloway do other than spout his mouth off in the media? He's a failed MP. The British government refused a visa to the Russian cousin of the Skripals because it was feared that the Russian government would try to get to them through her. The cousin was starting to talk as if on behalf of the Skripals, and they said only they could speak for themselves, and they did not want to see their cousin. What nonsense Galloway talks when he's in attack mode. He's an apologist for Putin. The Skripals did not go back to Russia and did not want to go back to Russia. The Skripals did not want the cousin giving away their whereabouts in case a further assassination attempt was tried.
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  4740.  otowise  You'd prefer a shoot-out? Not all cops are armed in the UK. They have tasers, but armed cops are called in where criminals are known to have arms, also for terrorist events.
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  4741.  @CheckDisOutpeeps  330 people, so far, have no observation skills.
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  4742.  @firewizzard86  The science of the time at the time.
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  4743. Tories are just blame merchants aren't they? They throw it around but never accept it themselves.
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  4744. *who embodies not whom embodies
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  4745. *Accept. Except means the opposite. It means exclude.
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  4746.  Follow the howl  Who, King John?
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  4747. He went in to get papers to enable him to marry his Turkish partner and according to her, he didn't think he would be in danger in an embassy that was within Turkey. Both he and his partner had strong links to senior and influential figures in Turkey. Besides which he wasn't a strong dissenter. His criticism was quite mild. I don't think he realised how impulsive and imbalanced MBS was.
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  4748. They live in another world. No cop has ever beaten them up.
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  4749. Laurence Fox is limp brained.
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  4750. Russia's protection. 'I'm protecting you (thump thump). Tell me where the Nazis are?' Putin, Putin, loves putting the boot in.
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  4751. You can see the furniture in between them which would make the perspective required impossible. It's just made up crap.
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  4752.  @michaelawford7325  I don't disagree with what you say about the Beveridge report. I was perhaps simplifying. The Lib Dems like to claim credit for the Beveridge Report that recommended an NHS but I am not a Lib Dem so I don't feel I have to fight that corner. However the only party to put it into effect, the sole party in power at the time, was The Labour Party. The Tories voted against the Bill to put it into effect. It was not a straightforward matter of claiming credit for the work of others. The Labour Party had a battle on its hands to get it into effect and it almost didn't succeed. See 'The NHS: A Difficult Beginning' - YouTube
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  4753.  @Ayubdj7  Nationalisation was a socialist policy. Privatisation is a Tory one. However there was a national consensus at the time, after WW2' of a need for an NHS. The Labour Party put that into effect in 1948. Americans against widening the scope of their health provision like to use the 's' word to put people off the idea of a national health service in America (or a single provider service which is as far as they'd ever think acceptable) because anything connected with socialism is considered anathema to many in the USA, so it is used as a word designed to create aversion to the idea.
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  4754. Not in London. Young people still can't afford housing.
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  4755. @Matt Archer O.K. You have an excuse. At least it means you can't spell the insult you intended. Birch is a rather nice tree, you know.
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  4756. @Matt Archer I can imagine.
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  4757. Can't you see he's a charlatan. Must be easily fooled.
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  4758.  @AllanHinde-mb2pr  How does that translate into policy and by the way the Reform party does not believe in funding public services.
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  4759. Do you mean Covid? They were wearing masks on the flights.
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  4760.  @stephen.v5122  *wear *Britain. You can if you want to. You are not grounded, just advised not to go to red alert countries, but I sure wouldn't want to be on a plane with all that air being recirculated.
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  4761.  @cun7us  Farage is essentially a fascist by inclination.
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  4762. In the UK ....It used to be bad manners to eat and drink in the street at one time (in the 1950s) and talking loudly on the phone in buses and trains and littering is annoying but people are too polite to say so or don't want the aggro, as you are likely to get a mouthful of abuse if you say anything. It would be good training if everyone spent 6 months in Japan.
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  4763. Someone from the 'we are the true religion and everyone else is wrong' brigade. That's most religions for you.
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  4764. He doesn't need his brain because he doesn't use it. He 'rules' by firing off orders and thinking what's in his own interests.
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  4765. Yes, but who won?
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  4766.  @Tony-uq8tn  It depends on people's behaviour which is not easy to predict.
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  4767. Nothing mysterious about it. Driver had been drinking. Speeding down a tricky tunnel. She wasn't wearing a seatbelt.
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  4768.  @regularity2556  That's the French for you. Even their toilets don't work half the time.
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  4769. The Republican Party are 'enthralled with a strong person and a Dictator'. Wow. Putin, Stalin, Xi, Kim Jong Un and Adolph Hitler all fit the bill.
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  4770.  Tiktokovna Shkrebneid  You do know socialism and fascism are different don't you? Trump is hardly a socialist. He's pretty much a laissez faire capitalist.
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  4771.  Eddy Veliz  Hardly because he doesn't believe in extending that to Americans in general. Anyway how do you know he paid 750 bucks?
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  4772. @fucian j Well that's your interpretation based on the info you are being fed. I think what they want is more like the Scandinavian countries have now, and they regularly come top of the happiness index but fear will make people want to stick with what they have and that suits the agendas of the corporations very well - those same corporations that are powerful lobby interests in Washington and that help to fund the parties that act in their interests while feeding the public with slogans like 'MAGA'.
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  4773.  Jennifer Erickson  I get the joke, but socialism is for the many not the few, so grabbing free or cheap stuff for himself and his wealthy cronies isn't socialism. There is a cynical saying in the UK though that it's 'socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor.' In other words the rich make sure their friends in government ensure they get bailed out or subsidised from the public purse whereas the poor are expected to pull themselves out of trouble.
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  4774.  @nedkelly33  They were not they was. They were part of an organisation serving over 300,000 meals a day to hungry Palestinians.
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  4775.  @bond0815  His strategy is to pretend he wants a deal and is still negotiating for one but the EU says nothing's happening i.e no negotiations going on. His other strategy is to pretend everything will be all right if we drop out without a deal on 31 October. An election in November would give people the chance to experience no deal Brexit and its consequences, unless he goes for an extension, which he said he'd never do, but he might be forced to if the legislation to take no deal off the table goes through by Monday. Clear?
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  4776.  @RstesotTv  He won't get an election before the EU meeting after mid October. The opposition parties have ruled out a mid October election. Jonson doesn't have the numbers to outvote them because he kicked out 21 members of his party. Also a law has passed to rule out a no deal Brexit. All it needs is Royal Assent now.
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  4777. Trump, would you be so smug and complacent if your land was stolen?
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  4778. Realistically that must mean Afghanis not leaving after about 29th because the USA and UK need time before 31 August deadline to get their own troops out, unless the Taliban are allowing a couple of extra days for the Troops to be flown out. It sounds like they won't do that.
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  4779. Early Americans were creating a new society which would be 'classless' compared to Britain. They were also escaping religious persecution and heading for a nation free of that. The economy in the US was expanding so opportunities were there for social mobility, and there was land for the taking (so they thought). They've never let go of those ideas even though conditions have changed since the early days. I think not complaining about your problems in the UK stems from more than one source. In history you would be punished for complaining and 'not knowing your place' but also there is a view that we withstood the German onslaught in WW2 and won the war (along with allies) partly by stoic and self-sacrificing attitudes and 'pulling together' as a nation. Americans are big on their belief in self-improvement and individualism and if there's a problem, there's a solution, whether it's medicine, psychiatry, politics or violence.
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  4780. This guy isn't listening.
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  4781. Yes the audience seems far too gung ho for Brexit
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  4782.  @stevehorner8302  Oh well, you get what you vote for.
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  4783. Some years ago women were said to be conservative voters. I guess they got disillusioned. Doesn't look like you believe in democracy if it doesn't give you the result you want.
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  4784.  @Cruzeoc101  It's not all hearsay. The witness also testified to statements she heard the President himself make. What you say about weapons not being found is not correct either. Weapons were found on people arrested on Jan 6th. 'Only 75 people were arrested on the day of the Capitol siege, and police were not stopping and frisking random protesters. Yet the authorities still turned up a wide array of weapons among the tiny slice of protesters who were arrested before and after the Capitol invasion.'. The cops also found weapons on people coming to the Capitol for the demonstration and on people leaving the Capitol to go home from the demonstration. Anyway regardless of the weapons situation, the President was told by his security staff that some of the crowd had weapons and he still wanted them to be let through, because, as he said, 'they've not here to harm ME'. I think it's you who is the gullible one. The evidence so far, from the hearings of insiders in the White House is overwhelming and other insiders people aren't denying it. The most they are doing is that some of those most implicated by the testimonies are pleading the 5th amendment. I'm sure you have your hands over your ears singing la la la, not listening and busy inventing reasons why none of it can be true. That's loyalty trumping reality.
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  4785.  @Cruzeoc101  Hearsay is when you report what someone else told you but it can't be substantiated. It's not always hearsay when you report what you heard someone say yourself, or what you saw yourself.. For instance if she herself heard Trump give an order to remove the metal detectors, that's not hearsay. She witnessed him say it. I can't remember which bits of her testimony were witnessed directly and what she was told by others without relistening to her testimony. I think you need to google the evidence about the firearms to get the truth. It is true that not many people were challenged or searched on that day (not more than 75) as the forces of law and order were overwhelmed, but arms were found on a number of those that were searched and security forces with their equipment could also spot armed people in the crowd. However if you're determined to see Trump as innocent, I don't suppose any evidence will convince you. You'll find a way to explain it all away but there's rather a lot of explaining that has to happen as the evidence is accumulating.
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  4786. Not only is Trump not interested in governing but he wouldn't know how to govern if he was. He can't do politics, only 'business' deals and issuing orders that are often illegal.
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  4787. He did a lot better than the governments since. His big mistake was the Iraq war.
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  4788. The UK had the highest death rate in care homes and that was avoidable, but that element has kept it at the top of the excess mortality chart. In France, Spain and Italy it seems many of the good holiday areas were not so affected - maybe because the tourism trade stopped or maybe because it's more of an outdoor life in those areas.
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  4789. The cat is sniffing the kitten wondering what's all over its fur and whether it's safe to lick it off. I hope they gave the kitten a wash.
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  4790. Adolph Hitler 's Chancellorship was confirmed by a Referendum. If only that Referendum result had been ignored, but no, the ignorant and bigoted must have their way. After Brexit, Trump will destroy the country.
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  4791. These kleptocrats know the Russian stock market has dropped 30% already. They feel it in their wallets.
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  4792. When delusional folk realise they are deluded......
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  4793.  @stopthetories  People want a permanent ceasefire now, not a pause in the genocide.
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  4794.  @hachi.  People feel they must try. Didn't we wash our hands of the holocaust for too long in WW2? The mistakes of history should not be repeated.
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  4795. That's cancellation culture and censorship.
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  4796.  @MilesBellas  'Normalcy' is a horrible word invented in the USA by people who forgot the word normality.
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  4797.  @MilesBellas  * Normalcy - horrible invented word. It's normality.
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  4798.  HMQ  Who is 'they' and 'we'? The NHS uses the word 'specialty' or at least it used to. Things become more Americanised over time, so that might have changed. A speciality is like something that you do really well like a Chef with a particular recipe. A specialty, in a medical context, is an area of expertise that you specialise in i.e. that's your main area of training knowledge and skill. The difference is subtle enough for the two to be confused or used interchangeably.
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  4799.  @MilesBellas  I addressed the topic previously. I was just alerted to the latest comment and didn't look beyond it. I agree with you there's a lot of resistance to bad news and warnings. I used to know someone called Bellas but their first name was Mike. Unusual name.
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  4800.  @MilesBellas  I don't disagree with your assessment.
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  4801. No. It's completely made up crap.
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  4802. Don't hunch when you walk.
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  4803. Because MPs have been shot or stabbed previously without as much encouragement. Of all the hate comments received by MPs, Diane Abbot get's half of them
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  4804.  @maryjones4029  I don't remember her ever saying someone 'should be shot' as Hester said about her. He's more than one individual. He's a major Tory Party donor and such men get to influence Tory Party policy.
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  4805.  @davidm.6537  *who
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  4806. @M Bungalow *Stuarts not Stewarts
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  4807. Really? You know his family said he doesn't believe in the things he says as an MP.
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  4808.  @arvindkhurana8851  Thomas Shelby was a complete hyprocrite . He pretended to have the socialist convictions of a Labour MP, but he only became an MP our of self interest. I wouldn't want an MP like that. There are too many already.
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  4809. A GE would not just be about Brexit. Many other things need sorting out andpeople vote in a GE on more than one issue so it couldn't be said to sort out Brexit.
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  4810. @Darren-pq5oc I don't think that's quite right. 'Local authorities have a duty to arrange for the collection of household waste and, if requested, of commercial and industrial waste.' Local councils also have legal duties in respect of the homeless and to prevent homelessness. These duties can be costly. Also 'If occupation of dwellings is not subject to a planning condition or section 106 agreement requiring occupation by households with a local connection, or where a principal residence test applies, local authorities have no powers to restrict sales or occupation to local people. Fiscal measures may be used to mitigate second home ownership.'
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  4811.  @George-bi8sj  I'm not sure how that helps purchasers of defective new builds. 'The contractor is typically responsible for the rectification of defects, including repairs, replacements, or any necessary adjustments required to meet the contractual obligations. The client, on the other hand, has the responsibility to identify and notify the contractor of any defects within a specified timeframe.'. Getting things put right may not be straightforward though. There are many complaints about this and the NHBC seems to be a toothless tiger.
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  4812. @Darren-pq5oc Funnily enough I had read that some Cornwall councils had taken fiscal measures to deter second home owners. I had read the part about double council tax. I don't quite understand the rest though. I think you are referring to 'section 106 agreements'. Presumably developers are aware of the requirements of these agreements and the local market before they engage in them (or they should be aware). If they can't sell them to locals presumably that's because the price of them is set too high making them unaffordable for locals.
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  4813. @Darren-pq5oc Do you know why they didn't sell to locals? Is it that locals could not afford them/
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  4814. @Darren-pq5oc o.k
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  4815. @Darren-pq5oc I don't get why this happens when the demand is for council houses. It would make more sense for the councils to build more council houses unless they are restricted from doing that by government or don't have the funds to do it. Once council houses are built the council has the responsibility for their maintenance costs too. The Tories put a restriction on housing benefit which limits how much tenants on benefits can afford to pay in rent. The council would need to do the maths on this to make sure they are not out of pocket over their housing policy and that rents cover costs but are still affordable for tenants on benefits. It's a better and more economic solution than sticking the homeless in hotels and temporary accommodation though.
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  4816. @Darren-pq5oc I don't think that's really it. Councils have certain financial legal duties and they have other areas of need which are legal requirements such as providing social services. If they don't manage the funding properly the councils can be kicked out by voters or matters taken out of their control, out of local control, as the government can appoint government commissioners to come and take over and make cuts to bring the councils within budgets. Part of the problem is the gradual and sustained centralisation of control under various Tory governments. They have restricted how councils can raise funds and what they can spend those funds on. The government has also reduced the central grants to councils by up to 80% since 2010 while an ageing population has seen demand for social services grow. At the same time councils have been encouraged to take risks to raise new revenue, by the government and the government abolished the independent audit function and left councils to appoint their own. All of this has led to the mess some of them are in now. I hope a new government will start to invest in areas of the country that have been neglected to create more jobs. Investment is a large part of Labour's manifesto but where and what they invest in remains to be seen. Countries all over the world are in ever greater debt now, in Singapore that has not affected their excellent credit ratings because they only borrow to invest and their assets are worth more than their liabilities. I'm wondering if Labour are thinking along the same lines.
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  4817. @Darren-pq5oc Investment is how growth and wealth is actually generated. Individuals borrow to buy their homes and having paid off their mortgages they have increase their wealth though not everyone can afford to borrow, but governments can if their credit ratings are good. Economies also grow via population growth which increases demand and workforce size. Reducing that will shrink economies or mean more immigration is needed to avoid stagnation. Investment in education would provide more skills for people in Britain reducing the amount of skills we need to import. Economic growth would mean more jobs and less poverty, less dependence on benefits and it will provide increased tax revenue to pay for public services. This is a longer term strategy to provide for the future but one that's needed. Handing out sweeties like the Tories is at the expense of public services and is only a short term measure that won't improve the economy over the longer term.
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  4818. @Darren-pq5oc Where does that get us? Economic stagnation and people dying prematurely for lack of access to health and social care. What's your way out of a stagnating economy? What I've been saying is well known economic theory. It's not foolhardy gambling.
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  4819. @Darren-pq5oc What a dismal point of view.
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  4820. There is no magic fix now. It will take a long time of doing the right things in order to fix the economy and I don't trust politicians to do the right things because even if they knew the right things to do, those things may not be popular and popularity is what politicians crave, but if it is at the expense of the economy and making things worse it will be a vicious downward spiral, ultimately.
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  4821. Donald Trump should feel at home there then.
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  4822. Matthew. The BBC gets attacked from the left and the right - from narrow minded people who think that it should only represent their own views . The content here is from Tracey Ullman not the BBC. She's funny. Are they supposed to censor her to satisfy you?
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  4823. He's down to his last 76 billion dollars poor thing. Pass the hat round for a collection for this poor man.
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  4824.  @justintallevi1703  If what you sat is true, they sound exactly like Putin and Xi, as they are also aiming to ensure that liberal democracy is done for in the world. Neither of them allow full and proper democracy in their own countries. WEF is just a talking shop but Putin and Xi are real leaders with military might behind them.
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  4825.  @batphink2655  Said what who said? I'm not aware that I was agreeing with any comment I responded to here.
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  4826. 'There were men and women hopping about the room. We tried not to laugh.'
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  4827. No.
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  4828. Ministers need people close by to hold their hands and take the blame.
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  4829. You'd think they'd know who he was by now. Is it deliberate harrassment for some reason or just stupidity?
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  4830.  @snovimgodom2009  Whoosh! You missed the sarcasm.
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  4831.  @snovimgodom2009  It could have been transferred to the water bottle from his hands after he put his underpants on.
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  4832.  @gazmasonik2411  Exactly. What motive who a doctor have for lying? None.
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  4833.  @gazmasonik2411  I am a critical thinker and I've already explained on this thread why I think he is genuine and I'm not going to keep explaining the same thing over and over again. Read the previous comments.
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  4834. I've had Covid Vaccines from Astra Zeneca, Pfizer and Moderna in that order. Astra Zeneca was the hardest to recover from - took about a month. Now it's recommended I have a Covid 19 jab for Spring 24. I've no idea which Vaccs is on offer or what Covid illness figures are at the moment. We don't seem to be getting as much information.
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  4835.  @TransoceanicOutreach  Yes, I looked it up, and the reference I found for it happening is for generals, not Emperors
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  4836. All the forests of the world seem to be burning in recent years and these are the forests that produced oxygen absorbed a lot of carbon. Fire releases the carbon, adding to global warming. It's a vicious circle. Our efforts to plant more trees seem to be tiny in comparison.
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  4837. Although biased,
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  4838. Jacob Rees Mogg is such a shyster. He's stating that civil servants should carry out the lawful policy of the government completely ignoring the fact that the Rwanda policy is undoubtedly unlawful. Even Braverman, The Minister responsible for it, has admitted this. Rees Mogg likes to try and pull the wool over his audience's eyes for the sake of his own agenda. Shyster.
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  4839. Sorry but I don't respect those who don't vote. They are content to leave us to the fates, or the decisions of others.
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  4840. She hasn't been sacked as deputy. I believe that's an elected post, but she's been sacked from her roles as Chairman or Chairperson of the party and Campaign Manager. I'm not sure that will be a positive move for him. At the very least it's not going to make for a great relationship between the leader and the Deputy, but she had advantages as a woman, a good networker and a northerner. Without some analysis of the campaign it's hard to know why she was sacked. He must have gone along with the campaign strategy.
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  4841.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  Does Boris know the meaning of the word?
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  4842.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  Not really. Why pick on Labour party leaders in terms of responsibility, when Boris hides from any media who are likely to ask him tough questions?
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  4843.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  Er, Boris is also part of the establishment. Mainstream does have worldwide reputations to uphold which would be trashed if they were constantly telling lies, unlike conspiracy sites which are founded on lies. I guess you like media that reflects your own views.
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  4844.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  I wasn't 'projecting on you'. I thought you were responding to my comment that Boris hides from media that will give him a hard time, by suggesting that Boris hides from certain media because they are part of the establishment.
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  4845. I don't wholly agree with your statement. It's not the courts that prosecute anyway, they just try the case. It's the Crown Prosecution Service that prosecutes. The police investigate violent crimes and try to solve them. Where they often fail is on rape cases. Where they don't much investigate is on burglaries or fraud.
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  4846.  @DEUSVULTEAM  So we can be as bad and fearful as the U? Bearing arms solves nothing. It just escalates the violence.
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  4847. Jason Goodacre. Are you a Londoner?
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  4848.  @TheGwimWeaper  You can have an opinion but really what's it got to do with you? no it doesn't affect you and it's not your concern.
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  4849.  @TheGwimWeaper  It's got more to do with me. I'm a London voter.
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  4850.  @TheGwimWeaper  Yes.
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  4851.  @michellea9857  I've seen Sean Bailey in the London assembly and he just seems dim and the kind of person who will say whatever he thinks will make him popular. He was accusing Khan of racism for increasing stop and search to combat knife crime. It's on video on youtube somewhere.
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  4852. She's not too bright. Her brother is a hedge fund manager on the tax haven of Jersey, I understand. That's where her primary interests lie.
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  4853. It doesn't surprise me now how many British people seem to become the victims of scammers.
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  4854. So when does Trump get sentenced?
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  4855. 'our money'. There are benefits from doing that both in trade, influence in international relations and in ensuring that there are not even more refugees fleeing starvation and other catastrophes.
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  4856. Of course he can run his business employing more expensive labour if Britons are prepared to pay higher prices and they may have to pay higher prices if the immigrant labour disappears.
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  4857. Or take sensible measures to alleviate it.
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  4858.  @yiannismcaughrey1999  It's about taking steps to ameliorate it for people in the short term and in the longer term relying more on home grown green energy.
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  4859. *bait
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  4860. Tbh if politicians don't talk out of their backsides they know they won't get votes. That's the reality of British democracy nowadays.
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  4861. What a hissy fit. Boris caused a lot of the chaos by creating a hard Brexit with no proper consideration of the implications and no future plan and by ignoring democratic rules of procedure, even ignoring the law. That way lies anarchy or fascism but at the least it's impossible to govern if there are no rules or standards. He behaved more like a Roman Emperor than a Prime Minister.
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  4862. I don't understand why people think Boris Johnson would be good and don't see that he would be a disaster. Boris is pretty ultra right wing in spite of his joviality. He doesn't have policies aimed at benefiting the common man. He's also not very competent, blundering about ineffectually and his principles can change according to what's beneficial for Boris. He works very much in his own interests. He's also a bit of a scumbag in his personal life - a womaniser and a faithless husband. The strange thing is that this is the kind of area that will suffer as a result of Brexit. They probably don't realise how much of the affluence of the area is dependent on close connections with the EU. They are suffering because of Tory policies and austerity, not as a result of being in the EU.
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  4863. Deus Pigeon. She is perhaps being polite. I'll translate. There are many areas like mine, means her win could be replicated elsewhere in the country, contrary to what Nancy Pelosi was suggesting. Her opponent had a lack of presence and there wasn't sufficient listening on the ground, means he didn't do enough for people and was out of touch or just didn't listen or care. That's why he lost. The Democrats need to fight harder for the people they represent. She's unhappy that the supreme court appointments will mean domination of Trump supporters and the possibility that they will take away some of the existing rights women have. She defines democratic socialism. What she says on that seems straightforward -more public services and rights for people basically. She's asked who the next speaker of the house should be but said she needs time to consider that bearing in mind what the options will be when the time comes, and the fact that she's not yet elected to Congress.
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  4864.  @montanagal6958  In the end all was fine.
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  4865. *would've
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  4866. He lived in 'McCartney and Stone' flats? Well now we know what Paul and Mick Jagger got up to in their spare time.
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  4867.  @alfern1770  Ivermectin developed for use on animals, not tested for humans. People 'We want it, why can't we have it?'. Covid vaccines developed for use on humans and tested on humans. People 'We don't want it. 'It's not been tested for long enough. We don't know the long term effects'.
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  4868.  @KimThomas-  Only the first dose. Vulnerable adults haven't yet had their 2nd injection for maximum protection.
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  4869. No, because they've not yet had their second dose.
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  4870.  @KimThomas-  No one with any scientific knowledge has stated we only need the first one.
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  4871. I think they want 'global Britain' to look like Singapore but I don't think that's achievable even if it was desirable or beneficial from the UK population's point of view.
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  4872. How is Orwell sadistic? No one who read about reaction to his his witnessing of a hanging in 'Burmese Days' or his 'Road to Wigan Pier would say he was a sadist. This sounds like an opinion based on ignorance. I don't think Orwell ever ceased to be a socialist. That's to misunderstand his writing. 1984 and Animal Farm are critiques is about Soviet Russia, and the failures of communism as known about then. Why shouldn't the left be self critical? It's healthy in politics to be self-critical. When Orwell was writing, most women didn't have a higher education and stayed at home rather than working away from home. Their opportunities to develop any sophisticated understanding of politics were limited at the time. Orwell's thinking about women is probably in line with many men at the time and certainly not in line with the worst. Today many men who go to single sex public schools still think women are not that important except in relation to their usefulness to men, and they have less excuse for those attitudes in 2023. To cancel writers from the past because of perceived failings based on modern assessments is often to 'throw the baby out with the bath water'.
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  4873. Because individualism doesn't work with public health issues because infectious diseases spread from person to person and can wreak havoc with in families, health services and the economy. Brand doesn't seem to be able to distinguish between corporations acting in their own interests and public health officials whose job is to look after public health. Russell Brand is thoughtful and interesting but he can be downright wacky too.
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  4874.  @noobadoc  I know that.
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  4875. The DUP seem too dim to realise that abandoning the protocol would lead even more quickly to a United Ireland because NI would then experience the same damage from Brexit that the rest of the UK is experiencing.
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  4876. The French may riot but they still end up with Macron, and the trend, so far as Macron's position is threatened, seems to be more towards the right. However French reaction may mean their pension ages don't get raised as high as the UKs.
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  4877.  @alexblue6991  If you worked that long you should get a full state pension unless your pay was so low it was under the threshold for paying NI. Even if so, you should not get less of a pension than someone who never worked. That seems unfair. Have you queried whether what you are getting is correct?
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  4878. Angry consumers with guns made even angrier by removing consumer protection - a lethal cocktail. How many people are aware of these changes? Not that many judging by the numbers who watch this channel.
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  4879. He seems desperate now.
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  4880. Don't laugh at them. They might have the last laugh.
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  4881. Lavrov means if Russia doesn't win, it will nuke someone.
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  4882. Poor old Roman being hit by both sides.
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  4883. These comments always seem to come from those who don't live in London and who'd rather keep voting for Tories to oppress them.
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  4884. So only Marxists think that black lives matter?
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  4885.  @marcmarc8524  True.
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  4886. The vast majority of tax cuts that Trump made went to the wealthiest citizens. That's not what he promised. Also some of his campaign funds were diverted to his family's personal accounts. If you look for corruption with Trump, you can find it. His ex lawyer, Michael Cohen said he was asked by Trump to threaten more than 500 people. If Trump ever leaves office he will face many law suits. He knows this which is why he fears losing the election and he has even spoken about changing things so he could get a 3rd term if he wins a second. You'll never get him out if he gets in again.
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  4887.  @sedulous7281  Wages in real terms are at their lowest. You should look up some stats. (From google: 'Wage Growth in the United States averaged 6.12 percent from 1960 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 13.78 percent in January of 1979 and a record low of -7 percent in April of 2020.') Cutting taxes for ordinary and poorer workers creates jobs and boosts the economy because they are more likely to spend their money on goods and services than to save it and thereby they create demand and economic growth. The wealthy already avoid tax and move their money to tax havens as they have accountants to advise on how to avoid tax. Ordinary workers cannot avoid tax (if they are on a payroll) or generally do not have accountants to advise them how to.
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  4888.  @sedulous7281  It was Google that selectively chose those figures. Here are the figures across a range of years then from Wikipedia page on the Donald's economic policies. Real wage growth %. (2014) 0.4%, (2015)Increase 2.2%, (2016) Decrease1.3%, (2017) Decrease0.4%, (2018)Increase0.6%, (2019)Increase1.3%. As for Covid. Trump is not managing that well causing more economic reduction than would be the case if he'd followed the science based advice.
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  4889. The Supreme Court wasn't biased. They asked Boris to produce evidence to support his case. Boris never produced the evidence to support his case - ergo he lost his case.
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  4890. The only trickle down is something that you'd want to stop with a diaper.
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  4891. This man knows nothing about the business he's been put in charge of.
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  4892.  @kylemc0254  I believe they should teach more finance, economics and politics (in terms of how the British political system works). However you can do those subjects if you get on to higher education. You have to do the basics before moving on. All you need to know about the stock market is that it's a form of gambling, but bigger players' investments are automatically played and switched according to an algorithm, which means that smaller individual investors are always at a disadvantage. I'd stay away from it, as far as personal income is concerned, for that reason. Science can help people in all sorts of job areas that are in demand from medicine, to engineering, to technology and just being able to follow information available on Covid for instance or make personal decisions about lifestyle and medical care. We'll all need to be more savvy on science in the future. Poetry is like teaching the mind to dream, express itself in unique ways, be free and enjoy the more pleasant things in life. I think it was Oscar Wilde who said, while in prison, that they could not imprison his mind. Education's about personal fulfillment as well as life skills. Creativity and the field of the arts is good for mental health.
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  4893.  @kylemc0254  You are wise once you come to realise how little you know compared to how much there is to know and that you never stop learning in life. You can learn from everything. Nothing is wasted. You can learn from failure as well as from success, from life experiences as well as formal learning but formal learning helps with everything too. Maybe that's not so apparent at the time you are learning, which can seem like a chore if you're not enjoying it, but no learning is ever wasted in life. Think of your mind like a store cupboard and fill it with good and useful things. The more there is in there the more resources you have to call upon in life when you need them. Also the more you understand about things the more enjoyment you can get from them.
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  4894.  Islam Destroyer Yohyo  It's a relative thing.
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  4895.  Crying Shame  As I said the creative arts are good for mental health. They widen your horizons and exercise the intellect and if you can understand and appreciate Shakespeare it means there's an awful lot of other things you can do too. Like perhaps interpreting government bollox rather than being taken in by them. Also, Brexiteers and right wingers are always banging on about being patriots, worried about their culture being downgraded etc etc .Well at school you can learn about the sources of our culture. Shakespeare is one of those, and if you can't be bothered to learn about it, then you are one of those downgrading British culture.
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  4896.  @VladimirOnOccasion  Eh?
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  4897.  Gerr mkk  Societies and communities need to work together to defeat the Coronavirus or to manage it effectively. If we all act selfishly that won't happen.
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  4898.  @SkemeKOS  If you think it doesn't exist you should visit a hospital and a laboratory. Why would the whole world devote so much time effort and money , crippling their economies in the process, to fight combat something that doesn't exist? You are a Dyatlov I see. Here is Dyatlov in action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocBVLMHK6c8
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  4899.  Gerr mkk  How could the whole world co-operate to control people when they can't co-operate on anything else and why would they do it or need to do it? They've already got people voting idiots into power, or otherwise control societies which are not democratic. This is fantasy paranoid conspiracy theory.
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  4900. @Scarface Education is not just about work, it's also about self development, developing critical abilities and understanding, which can be used in any environment. You can do business studies at school if you choose it for GCSE.
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  4901. @Scarface what new world order? The world cannot manage to co-operate on anything, let alone an unspecified 'new world order'.
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  4902.  Gerr mkk  Governments are not co-operating, to save the environment, to stop wars of all kinds including trade wars, to rescue those in need, etc etc etc. They don't share world views etc etc. The UN can't even get unanimous decisions to act on some things and the US doesn't even pay its fees to the UN.
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  4903.  Crying Shame  I'm not saying we should all be the same but we should seek to understand different cultures including the ones that have framed our society and understand each other. That's enough now. I've spent enough time on this topic. There are other things to do.
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  4904. @Scarface 👍
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  4905.  Uncle Joe  It is actually. Try it. It's good exercise for the brain. It's not just the body that needs workouts.
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  4906. Trump encourages racism by encouraging racist groups that support him.
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  4907. I think it's more because she's a good actress and they want to attract wider audiences.
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  4908. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJEMt8IZL3w&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=6&t=0s
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  4909. In the thumbnail it looks like true love. Hard authoritarian b**tards admiring each other.
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  4910. I don't trust products and companies that have no bad reviews (with some exceptions), and you can tell the types of reviews that are generic and not from personal experience. Where there are bad reviews I look a them to see what sort of things are being complained about. Sometimes it's just that things didn't fit or weren't to the customers taste or they were expecting something different (though the product is well described in the offer) or they didn't take notice of the size etc or the product arrived damaged but they say it was replaced o.k. These are not really a concerns compared to products falling apart, not lasting long, not doing the job, not arriving, not as described, poor customer service, no refunds etc. If people really feel ripped off they will say things like 'don't buy from this company'. Sometimes I can't find any reviews for a product in which case I don't buy it. I also google for 'independent reviews' of the supplier or product, and don't just rely on reviews on the supplier's own website.
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  4911. Don't bother. This is a totally biased website and anyone trying to give the true picture is deleted.
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  4912.  @emm_arr  She was famous for saying Naff Off.
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  4913.  @gerrabath  Lol. Of course.
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  4914. Is saying Tory voters don't deserve to be resuscitated the same as saying she wouldn't do it? Probably not, but she would not be trusted as a nurse after saying that. If you want to be better than the left though (as Dan Wootton says), then treat the NHS better and fund it better to do its job.
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  4915. It might blow your mind but it's drama not history so a bit of imaginative casting is o.k.
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  4916.  @sdg1970  And she had to oppress the working class to do it.
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  4917. I'm guessing he's a Tory donor. I don't know who, though his face reminds me of the former Harrods boss, Mohamed Al Fayed. I would not say it's him though.
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  4918. Of course they take unfriendly measures when he is invading and making war on European territory.
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  4919. Just imagine how much media time and government time is wasted in concocting lies and then disentangling and disproving the lies - time that could be put to better use actually doing some useful work that might benefit the voters. As Walter Scott once wrote 'O what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive'.
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  4920. It's more that they use celebrity gossip to sell their paper.
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  4921. @Fusilier Thresher or perhaps even *glorious (for those Brexit idiots who can spell - if there are any).
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  4922. @Derreck Jones What part of democracy is so hard for YOU to understand? When you agree to buy a horse and find it's a broken down nag when checked by a vet do you expect to be held to that contract - no, the terms of the contract have been broken. When people presented Brexit as a good option for the average person and it becomes clear it's not, after 3 years, when a lot of older voters have died and a lot of younger ones are newly eligible to vote, how is it undemocratic to put the current choice back to the people? After all Boris thinks he's doing that via the election doesn't he? However general elections are about more things than one issue - a Referendum is the suitable form for a single issue. The fact is that many parts of the country have been neglected by governments, particularly by this Tory government since they introduced austerity, but somehow the EU is getting the blame when it's nothing to do with the EU. If you think the same government that has neglected areas of Britain will somehow look after those areas after being elected again - well gullible is not in it.
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  4923. We know Farage talked a lot of bollocks about Brexit and now he expects people to trust his current bollocks. Have you noticed how good Farage is at criticising and fault finding with everyone else (that's the easy bit) but he's very short on ideas for improving things and the detail on those and the funding for those.
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  4924.  @lostintranslation1957  I can't find what doesn't exist i.e. his constructive economic ideas, and as for Brexit, my evidence is the state of the economy now and the fact that no one has really found any Brexit benefit but plenty of sectors including farming, fishing and business, can't point to the damage done.
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  4925. Trump seems to be trying to appeal to the terminally stupid and gullible - the ultra Trump loyalists. So the woman defending him on Fox news has been down in his office while those documents were in there -. she also says he has guests frequently there - admission of the security risks or what? Trump waves his magic wand to declassify top secret documents so now he can take them anywhere and anyone can read them? What?
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  4926. What put me off applying to university was the thought of the interview, after a friend of mine at age 17 was asked about 'Ulysses'. Luckily she had heard of it because her Dad taught English and she was able to mention Joyce's 'stream of consciousness' style of writing, but if that had happened to me I would have wished the ground to open up so I could sink beneath.
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  4927. 'The job of tracking fishing vessels in British waters is currently for a British firm. However, after Brexit, Boris Johnson's government has given the job to a French firm. Another example of how taking back control actually means taking British taxpayers' money from UK firms and giving them to others.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG_fN_cjds8&t=83s
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  4928. So they don't like all the poor people around so they abandon them to their fate and take their money elsewhere.
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  4929.  @larryscott3982  It's a French company actually.
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  4930. Brexit won't be 'done' if we leave in January under Boris. Jonathan Rees Mogg who is pro Brexit says it will take 50 years to sort out a post Brexit Britain.
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  4931.  @davidtorres1300  There are just more barriers now in Georgia.
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  4932.  @greghendershot6126  Here, you can read them for yourself. It includes new ID requirements, to vote absentee by mail, new time limits to apply for those mail ballots. It restricts the location of ballot boxes and times when they can be accessed. Poor and less literate people are less likely to be able to meet these requirements e.g. if they have no car and fail to apply for mail ballots within the new limits.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia-voting-law-naacp-lawsuit/
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  4933.  @greghendershot6126  What car can you buy and afford the running costs for, for the price of a phone and some Nike shoes? In any case how do you know the poorest all have these? No significant voter fraud was found in the recent election. No evidence of fraud that would stand up in court was provided, so this is a 'solution' for a problem that doesn't exist, and if it's such a good thing, why did Kemp shut out elected representatives while he was doing it?
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  4934.  @greghendershot6126  The MSM has got more to lose by lying than the conspiracy sites you probably visit. Are you saying that the MSM is misreporting what the courts have said? Then name a court case where election fraud has successfully been proved?
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  4935.  @greghendershot6126  Post up the evidence relating to the court that said that. Courts consider evidence, not political implications.
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  4936.  @greghendershot6126  You're saying all the mainstream media is corrupt. Where's the evidence of that? In fact there's a wide spectrum of views on the MSM. Where is the evidence that the courts are corrupt. Sadly it's just what you want to believe.
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  4937.  @greghendershot6126  Well he's certainly corrupt. He must be referring to himself.
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  4938.  @greghendershot6126  I don't watch much TV but I do lots of research.
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  4939.  @raymondglaser8481  I think the difference is that the vote for the stimulus bill did not prevent the Republicans from voting, whereas Kemp shut out elected representatives. She was an elected representative and had the right to be there. What right did he have to shut her out? Of course she protested. Isn't that what the Americans did at the time of the Boston Tea Party - protested at no taxation without representation? As for what I have against the bill, you can read my comments in this trail as I have already explained in detail to someone else.
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  4940.  @raymondglaser8481  Of course she was protesting. She had a right to be in there. It was Kemp who was breaking the law by excluding her. The point is the Republicans as elected representatives, had the right to vote against the stimulus bill and did so, before it was passed and signed. She as an elected representative was given no right to consider or vote on the bill. Kemp did it all in secret apart from the inclusion of a few of his cronies. That's not democracy. That's corruption.
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  4941.  @corryburton9834  Which fact checker's are biased and where does the evidence for that come from, conspiracy sites? If you are prepared to ignore all evidence except those conspiracy ones that fit your conspiracy theories there's no helping you. I hope you never have to do jury service as you would come loaded with preconceived prejudices.
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  4942.  @corryburton9834  No. Fox news is owned by Rupert Murdoch who is as right wing as they come. That's what you prefer to believe. Just because something's left wing doesn't mean it's wrong. In fact the right wing are the biggest liars. They are protecting the interests of powerful wealthy men who own them. Democracy doesn't help that so they seek to undermine it.
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  4943.  @corryburton9834  Oh for goodness sake. All they can fall back on all the time is Hunter Biden. That's pathetic. Trump has criticised the USA for supporting the Ukrainian resistance to Putin hasn't he? Trump was much more complimentary about Putin and Kim Jong Un than any democratic leaders. He considers democratic leaders to be weak and admires dictators. That's what you'd get with Trump if he got back into power. He'd dismantle democratic procedures and protections. He has no respect for the US Constitution if it doesn't serve his purposes. He just wants to be able to be criminal and corrupt in his own interests with no comeback. That's why he wants to be President again.
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  4944.  @corryburton9834  Well the Supreme court members are appointed by Presidents and Trump appointments gave it a conservative majority. Those are political appointments but judges of integrity would consider evidence and legal points rather than ignoring them in favour of political judgements. I don't think I understand your last sentence. It's not intelligible English. I'm not shaming anyone. There are times when people want to change laws and can demonstrate to show their support for change, which is allowed, but rioting is illegal.
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  4945. Booed by the Britain First candidate and his supporters and also bigots who presumably have lost the British value of 'fair play'.
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  4946. *has been run
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  4947. Relevant to what?
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  4948.  @andrewcheshire4762  That's rubbish. No one has ever lied as much as this government. They are the Olympic Champions of liars. In the past if a Minister was caught lying to Parliament or breaking the Ministerial code that was an automatic resignation matter and people did resign. Now no one resigns no matter how mendacious or corrupt they are and Boris keeps them in power. He even hangs on to Ministers he himself has called f*cking useless. The Civil Service is not in control. They do what Ministers want. They have no choice. They can draw Ministers' attention to possible downsides of their policies but in the end Ministers make the final decisions. They have changed a lot of Civil Servants. First of all they cut the civil service by 500,000 posts since 2011. Then, as there were not enough to deal with Brexit and the Pandemic they paid outside consultants to do much of the extra work and those consultants are paid at rates way way over civil service rates. If you don't do what Ministers want in the Civil Service you don't get on, and you can be put on a procedure leading to dismissal. I worked for a government department and 2 years after I retired there was not one person in charge at director level and above who was the same as when I retired. They had all gone. I don't think Brexit would necessarily have been the same if other parties were in power. For instance there were other Brexit options such as staying in the customs union which would have eliminated all the bureaucratic problems and the NI border problems. The Labour Party did offer a choice like that and a further Referendum as the implications of Brexit had become clearer. The Lib Dems always stuck with a Remain policy. There were options which meant it would not necessarily have been the same situation as we have now.
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  4949. The narrator says the company who did this was Ovo. The mother says it was SSE. They could end up killing people.
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  4950. No we had toddlers and now we have grown ups.
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  4951. JRM would always want to scrap the BBC licence no matter what the excuse. Lineker is just the latest excuse. I mean, good heavens, we wouldn't want a TV station capable of holding the government to account, would we?
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  4952.  @johncobourne361  Brilliant.
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  4953. Actually during and since Covid the government took over control of the railways because the companies would have walked away for lack of passengers during lockdowns. Now they collect the revenue just pay the companies a flat fee for running them. Effectively they do own the railways now but they are not direct employers of rail staff. However they are pulling all the levers. During talks any proposals from the union side have to be checked with the government by the employers.
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  4954. Trump probably wouldn't even know who Nicola Sturgeon was. Someone must have fed him those lines. I wonder who?
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  4955.  @johnn278  Ah yes. I forgot about the golf course connection.
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  4956. But also an increase in the amount that can carers can earn before carer's allowance is removed and wages are generally increasing including minimum wage rates.
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  4957. Clowns behaving like clowns. Who'd have thought.
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  4958. She's still Deputy Leader. That's an elected position so he can't sack her from that.
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  4959. *rich
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  4960.  @scottogden8509  I'm so sorry. Amazing of you to be commenting at all, really. Get well soon and don't stress yourself. Take it easy.
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  4961. Lots of facts in that report for you to get your teeth into. That's what matters. Opinions are all your own.
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  4962. Lord save us from Bridgen, Habib and Lowe.
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  4963. How is stupidity heroic?
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  4964. There is no apostrophe in the word 'wants'.
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  4965.  @911HRW  It's my version of hiding my head under the duvet.
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  4966.  @Legionnaire7777  *borders.
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  4967.  @911HRW  Happy Xmas. I'm signing off now.
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  4968. *baits
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  4969. Trump caused this by pulling out of the treaty with Iran and imposing sanctions on them for no other reason than to spite Obama. He forced others to comply with his sanctions on Iran. He hasn't a clue what to do about the consequences.
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  4970. Yes he does, but Trump is already preparing his team and his plans, or should I say the plans his backers have for him, the ones he says he's never read but is getting ready to implement - just listen to his proposed appointees and what they say they'll be doing.
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  4971. If this is happening, it's because the Tory government is allowing it. In fact the government has sold off NHS data to the private sector without any consultation of consent. You should be concerned about that. Socialists would never sell off private health data so stop blaming them to deflect from what the Tory government is doing. Apparently, the Tory government has also sold off people's data held by the DWP, and workers at the DWP have reported that the DWP now has to pay to access that data. This is outrageous. I doubt many people know. This government would sell off their grannies if there was profit in it.
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  4972. Don't be ignorant. The virus affects different people differently.
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  4973.  @topopops  Really? There are so many idiots on youtube it's hard to tell.
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  4974.  @BaerliOfficial  Don't insult boomers. We're not a blob that all think alike. You are resorting to old fashioned stereotypes.
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  4975.  @juice6521  No one can work with or vote for a liar because nothing they say can be relied on and it causes chaos in policy making and chaos in terms of international relationships. The administration spends all of its time dealing with the chaos and defending the corruption (or trying to) and no other work gets dealt with. Then I don't believe any of this bunch knows what they are doing and they don't have an ounce of practicality.
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  4976. What is a treasonist apart from a word you made up?
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  4977.  @JohnKobaRuddy  They should just have divorced then. She was estranged from him because of domestic abuse and had clearly been starting over with someone else. It doesn't seem as though he could cope with that, but people don't own each other. If he cared about her so much perhaps he could have been nicer to her in the marriage.
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  4978.  @rossnolan2883  I don't think you understood my comment. This is a compromise, not a victory. It was always going to be that.
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  4979.  @rossnolan2883  I am also British and I don't despise France. We have already stood down (compromised) by granting the licences.
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  4980. When Trump was unhappy about the state of things in the USA, why didn't he just leave? Now he complains about democratic oversight and tries to break the constitution. He could always leave.
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  4981.  @hanoitripper1809  Very slightly New Zealand.
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  4982.  @goldmaple5290  Maybe educated in England. His accent seems standard English with a slight touch of New Zealand.
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  4983.  @medialcanthus9681  Mainly English accent with a slight touch of New Zealand.
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  4984.  @innervisions2528  gonna is also used in other English speaking countries, like England. I'd say this is pretty standard English with a slight hint of a New Zealand accent.
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  4985.  @muayboran6111  That's not an Aussie accent.
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  4986.  @hanoitripper1809  There's an interview with a journalist where he talks about New Zealand. Unfortunately the page is blocked. I can't see why Afghans would be going to South Africa. It's not known for Afghan immigrants is it?
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  4987.  @hanoitripper1809  But the guy in question is an Afghan isn't he? He's their cultural spokesman.
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  4988.  @rasdarnurhana2597  Are you going to have a party to celebrate? O I forgot, partying is not allowed is it?
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  4989.  @K69g-m7n  If you've never heard an American.
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  4990.  @hanoitripper1809  People are trying to pin down the accent. I'd say he's definitely an Afghani though. Whether he was born in Afghanistan or elsewhere isn't known it seems, as you say.
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  4991. The scales fall from your eyes. Alas too late!
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  4992. Is that Boris?
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  4993.  @liza4757  Which ones are coming true? Is that just conspiracy sites telling you they are coming true?
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  4994. The government doesn't seem to be able to get adequate supplies of PPE to NHS staff and Care workers.
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  4995. Democracy is preserved. Those who voted leave, can't make the assumption that all leave voters wanted to leave without a deal. That has to be tested by an election or another referendum. You will be destroying people's jobs and livelihoods.
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  4996. No. Right wingers get excited at every little rise in the value of the £1 but it hasn't gone back to where it was before they bombed it with their mini budget. That well known radical left wing communist paper the Financial Times is alarmed also. Every time it rises a little the government seems to bomb it again. Anyway, the only reason it's risen a bit is because the Bank of England bailed out the government and saved the pension funds and the government has since promised an OBR assessment. Nevertheless, bye bye to the Tories at the next GE. .
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  4997.  @ZenAndPsychedelicHealingCenter  Yes. I've just learned that Grayling, changed the law in 2018 so that marine companies no longer have to let the British government know in advance about British redundancies. They only have to notify the country they are registered in, but nonetheless the government did know beforehand.
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  4998. We already have a useless class of people and some of them are in government.
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  4999.  @STM2811  There will be champagne for all. After all they are always criticised for being champagne socialists.
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  5000.  @STM2811  It's no good being a secret.
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  5001. Media companies like controversialists. It creates talking points and adds to their viewing figures. That's why Piers Morgan was also in demand.
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  5002. The BBC and other UK news channels should be talking about this. I've heard mention of job cuts and accessing data but not the extent or the details and not the implications for US citizens and government employees or security.
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  5003. Have gone, not have went. So when does Trump get sentenced?
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  5004.  @JMichael-xc7uu  I care, but I don't care to be told what not to do by other youtube commenters.
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  5005. Do you mean Khan? He wasn't 'hired' either. He was elected and the Mayor can't predict where the mentally unwell will appear these days. It the government who funds (of fails to fund) NHS services.
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  5006.  @XENONEOMORPH1979  You're out of date. Khan increased knife searches as announced on 10 Jan 2018. Re the NHS. What on Earth are you on about? Evidence please? if you are referring to Labour MP Rebecca Long Bailey, she's never been in government.
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  5007.  @XENONEOMORPH1979  Khan increased searches for knives as announced on 10 January 2018. What are you talking about in reference to the NHS? It's not owned by Luxembourg and if you are referring to Rebecca Long Bailey, Labour MP, she's never been in government. Are you saying the first nonsense that comes into your head?
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  5008.  @XENONEOMORPH1979  Why don't you look up the stop and search stats and compare them to those before 2018 or can't you be bothered? Stopped St George? There's no evidence that St George existed never mind 'going through London'. He's regarded as a mythical figure. Do you mean the flag of St George? Do you mean the violent protest by the Tommy Robinson supporters who arrived ready for a fight? I'm not sure they were banned from London. I saw a video of them in London giving the police a hard time.
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  5009. That's probably the least relevant aspect of the changes, but someone was bound to come out with that knee jerk comment.
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  5010.  @tennis5011  He was, but he accepts the results of the Referendum.
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  5011.  @shmadie_5668  Are you?
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  5012. Resolving a dispute doesn't just depend on one person. It's more democratic than that.
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  5013. Or they could be saying frack off.
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  5014. Is that worse than a Trump card?
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  5015. I think Trump and his cronies are trying to start some sort of civil war. Many people now believe what they want to believe and seek out media confirmation of their beliefs, never mind the truth. Fundamentally hardcore Trump supporters don't accept democracy. If someone like Trump gets voted in in future they will seek to destroy the mechanisms for democracy.
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  5016. They got rid of British workers who were unionised and employ foreign workers who are not.
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  5017. She co wrote and starred in French and Saunders TV series. She wrote and starred in Absolutely Fabulous TV series and film.
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  5018. So as not to prejudice a trial.
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  5019. After the second doses.
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  5020.  Nigel --  The government thinks it won't happen here because the UK is much further on than Europe with the vaccine programme. One half of the adult population has already received a first dose of the vaccine.
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  5021. Stupidity and greed. That's why.
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  5022. They loo pretty good on it tbh, especially if you like 9th century fashions.
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  5023. Would you care to volunteer in a care home to test that theory?
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  5024. The blame for the Wars of the Roses is not easy to assign. Margaret did tend to treat the Duke of York as an enemy and so turned him into one, but that was the way of politics where she came from in France. You can also blame the fact that Henry VI was a very weak King and that he had very incompetent and corrupt men around him. Another person you could blame is Edward III for having so many sons, and whatever disease took away his eldest son, The Black Prince. She was from France but she was Margaret of Anjou, not Margaret of France.
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  5025. The BBC is what's holding up the news standards for the rest. Once it goes, watch standards drop.
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  5026.  @-DC-  The sad thing is that ingmorant people will only want to pay for TV that spouts their own ignorant opinions and you'd get the sort of stupid TV they have in the States with people as much in the dark as many of them are there.
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  5027.  @-DC-  Anyone can do TV on the cheap if they don't bother with good journalism and if they don't check their facts.
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  5028.  @shadejalik4769  I was listening to this while you were wittering on about Meds. It's quite an interesting debate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k448JqQyj8
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  5029. @Seymour Butts I never said the BBC was perfect. I don't think a perfect broadcaster exists, but it's a lot better than many of the alternatives.
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  5030.  @richardjones3096  So you say. I think I understand him well.
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  5031.  @richardjones3096  How would you know?
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  5032. When Labour get into power again (later this year, depending on how people vote?) but how quickly depends on the priorities. There is so much mess and chaos for Labour to sort out.
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  5033. *should've
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  5034.  @xstorm_8_shadowx  My opinion and the court's. Stay safe yourself.
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  5035. It is in English. It starts in the middle of a scene. The Duke of Gloucester (The Lord Protector) says the King is old enough to give a reproof himself, (we don't know to whom) and the Queen should not interfere. The Queen says, if the King's old enough why does he need a protector? Gloucester says he will resign as Protector if the King wants him to. Suffolk or Sussex (can't remember which) intervenes and tells Gloucester to resign. He starts to accuse him of acting as King, and being responsible for the everything that's going wrong in the country. The country is going to the dogs. The heir to the French throne (called the Dauphin) is winning in France where England and France are at war, and Gloucester lords it over the nobles. The Archbishop then accuses Gloucester of over overtaxing the country (via the House of Commons) and overtaxing the clergy. Someone else (we hear but don't see) accuses him of spending too much on buildings and his wife's clothes. The Queen accuses him of corruptly selling official jobs and control of towns in France, and says it's a capital offence. She says the King knows everything. She then goes down and deliberately drops her fan to humiliate the Duchess of Gloucester by getting her to pick it up. The Duchess ignores her request and gets a slap. The Duchess says she would scratch the Queen's face with her nails if she could. The King says the Queen didn't mean any harm (The King is a bit of a weak booby, if you'd not picked up on that). The Duchess threatens the Queen with revenge for the insult. The manipulative Queen pretends to be very distressed and runs off.
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  5036. Have arisen. No one knows how to construct past tenses anymore. A failure of education or failure to pay attention in school?
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  5037. I think he realises that Putin does not believe in those things.
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  5038. Do people have such short memories?
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  5039. But we don't need more ignoramuses and noodle brains.
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  5040.  @motr1912  But many voted for that.
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  5041.  BradleyWynne  But they are being treated better than the rest of the population who pay higher IHT. Why should they be exempt? I understand many farmers are tenant farmers and don't own the land whereas many owners don't farm it.
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  5042.  @dabblerdeluxe775  If you can, get yourself a home treadmill, place it towards a nice view, and play some nice music while you take some exercise. I bought my daughter one some years ago but I use it more than her now. Other things I'm doing are growing stuff on an allotment, doing more home cooking, learning a language, and getting round to all those little jobs I kept putting off.
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  5043.  @pauldoporto6811  True. Good point. That's why people should only take it if prescribed by a doctor and monitored by a doctor. It can also cause stomach problems, like ulcers.
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  5044.  @PeaceandLove2023  What's a piece of cake? Trump's diet?
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  5045.  @pauldoporto6811  I'm not American, and I don't understand why the electoral college would ignore the result of the popular vote, or was it that the extra votes were so distributed that they did not cause the majority of states to be hers?
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  5046. Portnoy's compaint.
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  5047. They are not bothering to claim VAT on imports at the moment and they are not reclaiming billions in fraudulent furlough claims paid out during Covid . They overpaid companies by billions during Covid because of lack of competitive tendering, and on equipment that was sometimes useless and not fit for purpose. They have also turned a blind eye to money laundering and allowed the creation of companies for offshore investments whose real owners are not disclosed. The most wasteful government ever.
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  5048.  @nathanstevens5682  I didn't say she doesn't feel. I'm sure she does feel. She's just been trained not to show her feelings.
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  5049.  @hassanalialqadiri  That's the point. It preserves the mystique of the monarchy. Otherwise she would just be like anyone else who people would take for or against depending on whether they agreed with her views or not.
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  5050. Imagine if global warming puts the planet under water. Which form of life will have the advantage and dominate then?
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  5051. How can the Lords be expected to vote for law breaking?
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  5052. Tariffs can be useful when used specifically and selectively such as to protect US steel manufacturers from competition from countries (such as China) that would unfairly dump subsidised steel onto the market to undercut and kill off the industries of their competitors, but to use tariffs in the sweeping way Trump does cuts down affordable imports without having internal replacement industries. Internal industry growth may happen to some extent in years to come but meanwhile the US economy is collapsing, some manufacturers are closing down and inflation will rise. The other risk is that reciprocal tariffs may be placed by those countries on the receiving end.
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  5053. It's spelt 'does'.
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  5054.  @peterlyall7488  Do you mean 'nein'?
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  5055. That should be up to her local party and her constituents.
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  5056.  @robtyman4281  That should be up to her local party and local voters.
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  5057. They probably were investigating his government contracts, until Musk made sure to fire them.
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  5058. This series was excellent but I did read a New York Times article about what it got right and what it got wrong. Interesting read. For instance in this series people are often threatened with being shot (by the state) but in fact shooting people for disobedience etc stopped with the death of Stalin. It makes for good drama though and emphasises the seriousness of situations people find themselves in and the difficult choices they have to make.
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  5059.  @caroleivy  If what you say is true, 98% of published scientists would seem to be left wing. Also, over their lifetime, trees are actually carbon neutral. They take it in while they are alive and release it once they are dead or burned. You need to read up on a bit of science. We could actually stop trashing the planet if we wanted to enough.
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  5060. Perhaps GB News is failing because listening to w*nkers stroking each others egos isn't entertaining.
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  5061.  @whatayaDO543  Just google. Russia has free healthcare. China is more complicated but about 95% of the population is covered by basic health insurance. I don't think souls are sold in Scandinavian countries.
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  5062. *their * countries. If the virus was fake, you couldn't spread it.
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  5063.  @moonbeam8120  No I don't see that someone was looking for a reason to spread fake news.
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  5064.  @yodaslovetoy  I'm happy already - just laughing at your silly name.
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  5065.  @yodaslovetoy  *should have not 'should of'. The BBC has an educational remit which you might find useful.
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  5066.  @yodaslovetoy  You told me to take my happy pills, so I was just doing what makes me happy.
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  5067. *hearses
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  5068. There was a guy who lived en route to a hospital, who commented on youtube, at the height of the pandemic, and he was seeing them alright, frequently on a daily basis. Perhaps you are not en route?
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  5069.  @2Truth2you  Well you can always volunteer in a care home or a hospital if you have doubts.
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  5070.  @alexbell8687  * got thrown (why don't people learn their past participles these days?). I was a cancer patient who had an operation delayed by 4 months but it was o.k for me.
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  5071.  @alexbell8687  I'm sorry to hear that. Covid is not flu though. Opinions don't have to be 'asked for' in a comment section.
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  5072.  @alexbell8687  That's o.k. I wish all the best for you and your family.
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  5073. I fear De Joy might destroy sorting machines to prevent them from being re-instated.
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  5074. First thing out of this guy's mouth is a big lie, - second thing is a big lie, third thing is a big lie ..... you get the picture? Brexit will not benefit the average person one iota. It will benefit only the financial spivs, corporations, money launderers, and wealthy tax avoiders.
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  5075.  @EricssonRotaryBiscuit  I don't think Tory tabloids were encouraging people to vote Labour. They were mostly fearmongering.
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  5076. To me 'Tucker' always sounds like cockney rhyming slang.
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  5077.  @ssrmy1782  They are the ones that have already connected the dots or never lost the connection. The rest believe the Tories 'aspirational' bullshit or are comfortably enough situated to want no change. Other areas that vote Labour are in cities which contain more educated and younger people.
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  5078. He's not even listening to her but chatting to his colleague and looking at his phone.
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  5079. It's when they don't have the answers or don't want to tell people.
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  5080.  @peterloup2302  You don't get it either.
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  5081. Why shoot the messenger?
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  5082.  @therb6365  Eh?
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  5083.  @mollybloom5681  How could she lose?
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  5084.  @robertwilson207  Trump's much more of a Nazi.
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  5085.  @thedom6209  I think the comment of mine you are responding to, was my response to someone who said Trump was the leader of the free world rather than Merkel, and my comment was meant as a disagreement with that statement. I'm not going to make any more comments on this thread now because it is so long, it takes me ages to scroll down and find any comment addressed to me.
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  5086. No, Because they know that Johnson's bluff will be called on 31 October, so an election in November would be better. Either we'll be out without a deal and people will have had a few weeks to realise what that's like, or he will have asked for an extension which he said he would die in a ditch not to do. He will be exposed. If we have an election in October he will continue with his bluff that he wants a deal and will negotiate for a deal or that there will be no problem if the UK just drops out with no deal. Also if the bill goes through by Monday to stop a no deal exit, he will run out of options.
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  5087. Trump also gave fake cufflinks to Charlie Sheen as a 'wedding present'.
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  5088. Perhaps the regime also doesn't want them to have such foreign bolt-holes (yachts and houses). The Saudi regime is also funding various 'wars' which the money will probably be used for.
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  5089. It's because she had to fill the time allocated to the video and the topic but she didn't have any other news to fill it with. Perhaps he should have stopped his public role earlier than he did.
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  5090. A glass half empty man. Keep a bit of hope.
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  5091. *In English 'need to be serviced' or 'need servicing'.
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  5092. Were Trump voters not listening to what the MAGA team said before the election or did they think 'it doesn't mean me' or did they not understand the impact of such intentions? I think they voted to be better off financially, so they thought, and didn't mind who else would be hurt.
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  5093. @@SimonWeston-ms9vs That's not logical. How is a lack of knowledge related what someone wants or doesn't want.
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  5094. I watched the interview and I can sympathise with Meghan not coping and needing help, also with having to suffer the racist attitudes, particularly of the attack dog British press. However there seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of who and what can be paid for from the Sovereign grant and what duties those in receipt of such pay are expected to carry out. Minor royals have fought to get their children paid for from the grant. Prince Andrew's daughters are not on paid from it, much to Prince Andrew's displeasure. That was said to be Prince Charles's decision. Princess Anne's children do not have royal titles and are not on paid from it. So it's hard for Charles to justify paying his own children from the grant unless they are fully working Royals which you can't really be without living in the UK. Also I'm not clear why Meghan thinks a great grandchild of the Queen could ever be called a Prince. The connection to the throne is too remote to have titles like that. Why does Harry not understand this? Why did no one explain it to him and he explain it to Meghan before they were married so she knew what to expect? Where I do have some sympathy is that they were working royals in the UK but having to put up constantly with a lot of hurtful crap from the press and trolling in the media and not being able to correct the false stories, or have someone from the Palace correct, them must have been difficult, and it seems no one prepared her for that, nor did she bother to do any research to find out what life would be like - astonishing that the Palace could let that happen in view of past experience with Diana. As a Royal you also can't go around expressing your opinions about everything. Meghan clearly wasn't able to cope with the pressure and the restrictions and didn't get help. Where I'm less sympathetic is that they could have paid for things themselves like help for her and extra security for Archie, if they thought he needed it. Harry has his own income from Diana. They had their own security while they were working royals which should have been enough to cover Archie while he was so young.
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  5095. How could she have married such a pig?
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  5096. This is a horrible tragedy. People are dying pointlessly, forced into this situation. He didn't mention any assessment of the casualties. It's depressing how 'Make (insert country of your choice) great again' can get populist support for the most awful leaders.
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  5097. What's Keir Starmer done to him? He's not in power. Boris Johnson's in power and the Tories have been in power since 2010. I bet he'd be welcoming the fat, corrupt, incompetent one in.
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  5098. He makes enough comedy about himself. Novichok episode. That was hilarious.
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  5099. If you don't know, you are susceptible to bonkers conspiracy theories.
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  5100.  @erikh5512  Yes there is real news on TV but viewers are so bamboozled now with conspiracy theorists, bots and trolls muddying the waters that many people can't see it. They doubt everything now which is just the aim of those who want to discredit bad news.
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  5101.  Mike Hall  What Trump does is unbelievable - granted, but that's him. That's what he does. He only really listens to very few people, mostly in his family. He doesn't read anything or listen to experts or those with knowledge, and he seizes on anything that will make him look good or exculpate him from blame for anything. He doesn't really care if it's true or not. In his own mind and in his own little circle, he can never do anything bad.
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  5102. Or they are hawks who know they'll profit from it but won't be sent to fight.
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  5103.  @Joanna-il2ur  I do remember him. He was an MP in Birmingham where I grew up. A clever well educated man but rather highly strung.
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  5104. Maybe he needs someone to shout 'You're fired!'
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  5105.  @gardenguru461  They are in Parliament. They're not in government. What's that got to do with it? Their Manifesto was costed with the source of funding identified in it.
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  5106. Whoever she is? Wow. Look her up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQAUuTLwm5Q
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  5107. Too dim.
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  5108.  @eraldorh  I hate to say this but the Tories assume that Khan gets the ethnic vote and put up a black candidate against him in the hope of attracting that away from Khan, but London voters are on the whole, young and educated and don't trust the Tories, and Shaun Bailey, the Tory candidate' is very thick and just parrots what his masters want him to say and doesn't care if it's the truth or not or even if it makes sense.
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  5109.  @DavidSmith-vx1hj  Pathetic generalised comment about women. Perhaps injections of testosterone would do equally well eh? I do respect the leave vote in the sense that I accept if we have to leave,but only with a deal. Remember the leave campaign before the Referendum vote? They said we could leave with a brilliant deal. They did not say we would leave on 'no deal' terms, so why don' t they respect what they said? You do realise that over 4,000 of our trade deals, based on our membership of the EU, will immediately lapse on the day of a hard Brexit, and Liam Fox has only 4 deals lined up so far to put in their place. You do realise that no country in the world trades solely on WTO terms because that's like the 4th division of trading. Trade deals, especially with big trading blocks like the EU are premier league - what all countries want ideally but they take many years to negotiate. You do realise that pro hard deal Brexit economist Patrick Minford, says that leaving on WTO terms (hard Brexit) will destroy British Manufacturing and Farming but he's not particularly bothered by that. You have done your research haven't you before coming to an informed, intelligent and wise decision?
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  5110.  @DavidSmith-vx1hj  Just because a woman happens to be in power does not mean her gender was the thing that governed her polices. I could say Hitler was a man and so was Genghis Khan, Attila and Napoleon, Ropespierre, Stalin and Vlad the Impaler but it would be crass to say there should be no men in politics because of them. Theresa May didn't take 'no deal' off the table as far as I'm aware. She was certainly against doing that whenever she responded to that request in Parliament. I'm not a supporter of May but let's get the facts right. I can't go through economic factors one by one but for example, take farming and manufacturing. Under WTO terms we have to set tariffs for nations we trade with and they have to be the same for all countries we trade with. Currently within the EU we trade tariff free. If we set a tariff on imported goods that means prices will go up for UK consumers, so everything will cost us more but it will protect British farming and industry from unfair competition from countries running sweatshops with no protections for workers, paying them 2p an hour, say. Our industries can't compete with that unless they treat British workers the same way. If we set zero tariffs, which we could do, that would protect British consumers from price rises, as a result of hard Brexit, but it would offer no protection to British industry and farming from the unfair competition. Some people would still buy British as a matter of principle but most consumers will buy on price alone and go for the cheapest goods. That will wipe out British farming and manufacturing. In WTO British exporters will have to pay tariffs too, and they are likely to be set by other countries at a level to protect their own industries.
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  5111.  @DavidSmith-vx1hj  I'll leave you to your misogynistic fantasies. I'm not debating this rubbish.
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  5112.  @DavidSmith-vx1hj  Well, I can't spend my life solving the world's problems. wish I could but I don't have the time or the power. Knife crime has been on the rise for a while. I remember seeing this trend coming across with gang culture from America years ago and being very frustrated that the governments of the time were not giving priority to tackling it in the early stages. You could see that it would grow if not tackled. It has more recently been fuelled by factors such as austerity, large expulsions from schools leading to lack of skills and opportunity, lack of social mobility, a growing gap between rich and poor, pressures on the poor, breakdown of families under pressure, closures of leisure activities for youths such as leisure centres and youth clubs and youthworker projects massive cuts by this government to police budgets which has resulted in a loss of over 20,000 police officers at a time when other pressures on the police are growing, such as from cybercrime, terrorism, modern slavery and paedophile activities and domestic violence on top of the usual crimes. What I would do is restore the funding to the police and to those projects and youth facilities it was taken from and actually increase the funding to police and youth projects. I would hope that it's not too late to reverse this trend after years of neglect. I've just been reading an article about military drones and how the services have crashed and wrecked quite a few of them at a cost of £15 million a piece because of a lack of training an inability to understand what error messages mean. We have our priorities wrong and short terms cuts (to training) can have costly consequences in the longer term. This government prides itself on 'cutting waste' but it cuts money to public services while wasting it in quite a number of other areas. By what I've said above, I don't mean to exonerate individuals from blame for their crimes. Not everyone who is poor or under pressure commits crimes. Some will and some won't but alleviating some of those pressures and putting more resources into young people worked in the past and are a worthwhile investment to help turn things around.
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  5113.  @DavidSmith-vx1hj  I don't know if it gets your vote but I wish people would stop voting for more of the same, voting against their own interests, because they don't look beyond the slogans manners and appearance of slick politicians. Oh well.
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  5114.  @DavidSmith-vx1hj  A terrible mess and a worry for the future. It's the young people who will pay the heaviest price if it all goes pear shaped by October 31..
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  5115. In saying they are 'massively increasing testing', that's an intention, a wish list. They haven't got there yet. Maybe they could have got help from the EU.
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  5116. By your definition, since all violence is terrifying, all violence would be 'terror related' but that's not what terrorism means. Usually by that they mean there is a political motive. This guy could just be mentally deranged.
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  5117.  @laremabella  A Greek guy. I don't know his name.
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  5118.  @androidemulator6952  The police have it I believe.
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  5119. It boosts the immune system by developing its resistance to Covid.
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  5120.  @AwRighttttt  You need a sense of smell to detect a gas leak. Sometimes people lose their sense of smell. Covid can do that for instance, and then if there's a smoker in the house............
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  5121. If higher wages cut down on welfare spending there's a saving for the taxpayer. Also look at Scandinavian countries. Their taxes are higher but so are their wages and their free public services, and they come high on the happiness index. That's not a bad model. You have to have both sides of the equation though. It's no good raising taxes if taxpayers get nothing for it.
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  5122.  @ConservativeJuggaloPodcast  Because you said 'it gives all workers a $6 an hour raise no matter how much you make, and it makes people on welfare make too much to qualify for welfare'. I thought you were suggesting that low paid workers get welfare (as they do in some countries) so if their wages go up they'd get less welfare - a saving for taxpayers.
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  5123. All they will have to sell is their celebrity.
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  5124.  @ohwell94  As long as they are useful to people and as long as they are young and photogenic I suppose.
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  5125. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJEMt8IZL3w&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=6&t=0s
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  5126. Cretins (Cretins (like jet ins). Not Cretins like Creet'ns. Cretans (Creet'ns) are people who live on the island of Crete
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  5127. As soon as blood pressure falls rapidly a person faints, and in the case of beheading, blood pressure drops immediately. Even if brain death took some seconds, there would be no consciousness while that happened.
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  5128. This is wrong. It's setting up a straw man. As they stated the document proves that the NHS is not 'off the table' when it comes to US trade talks and any US trade deal post Brexit, and they could also have a secret agreement aside from any deal if they so choose. It also indicates that US drug companies are keen to increase the price of drugs to the NHS and the government is not telling them no. There's a myth peddled by the government and this video about how they are not 'selling off of the NHS'. However Boris can keep the NHS 'brand' and the 'free at the point of use element whilst allowing more and more health services to be sold off to private companies. He will hope because it will still be called the NHS and still free to use (in the short or medium term anyway), that people won't notice the gradual privatisation of health services. Health services that come under the Department of Health include social services and public health services as well as the NHS. Already 26% of funding goes to private companies. This is somewhat hidden by the fact that some of it goes to voluntary groups and local authorities who merely pass it on to private companies. Because it goes to the former bodies first, the government still classifies the funding as going to public services. You might think what does it matter who provides the services, but it does matter because: staff terms and conditions are often worse; if the private firm fails the taxpayer picks up the tab; money is unnecessarily siphoned out of the system in the form of profit; and private firms who are competitors and competing for contracts don't co-operate and share information in a way that provides for the best (seamless) patient care. The regular contracting round and process is complex and time consuming for those medical staff who need to input to it. It costs a lot to achieve and monitor and may become an inflexible and costly burden if circumstances change or the contract is not watertight. The way has also been opened for private companies to sue the NHS if they fail to win contracts. It requires a lot more accountants and consultants to run and maintain the system. If the NHS becomes predominantly privatised that could change the whole ethos of the NHS (that the patient comes first). The funding of the NHS is in the public domain at the moment but when Hunt was Secretary of State, an attempt was made to sneakily change the structure of funding bodies to align them with the format of those in the USA which would have made it easy for private companies to take this over, so private companies would be deciding how the money is spent. If that happened there would not be much of the NHS as we know it left - mainly the brand and the fact that it's free at the point of use, until a worsening of service would mean the Tories could gain enough support for changing it to an insurance based system and bingo, long term objective achieved. If you don't think the NHS is being gradually privatised, speak to anyone who works in it.
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  5129. The Tories are making up policy on the spot, I suspect from the results of focus groups or from gut prejudice, because they are desperate to try and shift those poll figures in their favour. However they have no means or plan or costings to achieve what they are promising and their record in office shows how incompetent and ineffective they are with delivery anyway. I suspect they will target degrees they disapprove of in a philistine way.
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  5130. Are you suggesting that they bought them in a run down state?
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  5131.  @Juliukas101  Council properties are usually very well built as they were subject to proper building control inspections and regulations. They still have to be maintained though, like any other property.
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  5132. You're missing the point. There's more fun being made of the Trumps, Theresa May and Boris Johnson here.
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  5133. Lol. The thumbnail refers to him as 'Gym'.
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  5134.  @northwestcoast  He's hardly employed now, self or otherwise.
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  5135.  @FullMetalFeline  This is not a time (pandemic) when it's easy to find a job if self-employment does not work out. It's cruel to leave people high and dry in these circumstances and so many self employed people are out of business because of Covid too. It makes me angry that the government saves money because pensioners are dying and the newly self-employed are entitled to no help but there's money to waste on companies that are 'friends' of the government or ones with poor track records of delivery and no experience in the health sector.
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  5136. Where did you hear that bollocks? Was it on this show? I lost the will to listen after a while.
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  5137.  @papanino4415  Wow, it's like the kind of explanations adults give to small children.
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  5138.  @dnciskkk9037  I can't seem to find any deficit projections based on Manifestos. Labour have shown how they would pay for their spending from taxes and borrowing so presumably they would not break the deficit limit. In the last few years the deficit in the UK has been less than 2% Here are some useful sites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFXKN6MFz9I&t=15s https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/14430 https://www.ifs.org.uk/election/2019/manifestos
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  5139.    Not quite. It's more complicated. Here is the situation for Railways https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-railways-eu-rules-nationalise-single-market-restrictions-labour-a8968691.html and here are the rules more generally https://www.ft.com/content/c00d8684-788c-11e9-bbad-7c18c0ea0201
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  5140.  @dnciskkk9037  Don't be silly. Personal finances and government finances are not the same. Sensible governments know that you spend to invest in a recession and save in good times. That's how Germany and Portugal got out of the 2008 crash without a programme of austerity like the UK. If you are investing you have growth and assets to show for any money borrowed. A bit like borrowing to buy a house. It's unusual for that transaction to result in a loss. in the UK. The 1945 Labour government 'maxed out the credit card' as you put it, at a time when the UK was bankrupt after WW2 to rebuild Britain, create the NHS and nationalise industries and it worked. This is for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZNwdcESn90
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  5141.  @dnciskkk9037  Manifesto. A common term around our way. We talk of nothing else :-). They are something people should read, or at least read a summary of, before voting in order to understand what it is they are voting for . Here's one example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rhz4s7m4mk
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  5142.  @dnciskkk9037  https://www.le.ac.uk/economics/teach/ec1001/Lecture%20Notes%20given%20to%20Students/Lecture%20Notes%2001%20Chapter%2023.pdf
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  5143.  @dnciskkk9037  Britain had lots of poverty in the 1930s and few could afford healthcare. When the war was over and soldiers returned their was a general consensus among the people and political parties that a fairer society was needed including a national health serivce. Even Churchill was promising that in his 1943 speech and 1945 Manifesto (there's that word again). You say investment in the NHS does not create growth but it does because you have a healthier and more productive workforce and also additional jobs that stimulate the economy. The reasons the NHS was a good idea then are still the reasons that it's a good idea now and Americans in the run up to their election campaign are starting to consider medicare for all as a serious issue. After all, just to call and ambulance there costs $2,500.
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  5144.  @dnciskkk9037 Don't be ignorant. The term Manifesto is used by all political parties in Britain and many democracies. It has classical origins from Latin 'manifestare' to 'make public'. Your Eton educated Tories also understand and use that term. If you don't know what it is, what on earth do you think you are voting for - hot air? P.S. Have you never seen the Tory Manifesto or do you consider it 'too left wing'? Manifestos are the documents against which political parties expect to be held to account by the voters. Here's the Tory one for you - just to prove it exists https://assets-global.website-files.com/5da42e2cae7ebd3f8bde353c/5dda924905da587992a064ba_Conservative%202019%20Manifesto.pdf
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  5145. Yes, it's no skin off my nose to do that. Mask wearing should not be politicised.
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  5146. Perhaps they ask him for ID because they can't believe his mental age or he doesn't actually do any shopping himself. I read an article with some statistics of the last US elections that show that the majority of non voters are found in the poorest income groups.
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  5147. It's news around the world.
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  5148. Trump voters should have watched the film 'The Apprentice' before voting.
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  5149. They should always explain the small print.
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  5150. @Carl Collins Well it was the Labour party that nationalised essential services after WW2.
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  5151. Intellectual comment.
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  5152.  @catsploitation  Why no? It was a compliment anyway.
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  5153. It's not just about the mistake. It's about the attitude he revealed towards his own colleague in front of everyone. Hard to go back from that.
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  5154. @Liam Fullarton-Ward I don't complain about people being like a bot when they are doing their jobs, if their job isn't to entertain me. I once had someone haranguing me on the phone for half an hour and I didn't lose my cool or swear at them or about them, but I did mention to colleagues that I'd had someone trying to browbeat me on the phone. When another guy got angry on the phone at me about something I had no control over, I just let him vent his anger and explained things. At the end he apologised to me. I used to swear at football matches but football songs are full of swearing and everyone swears there. I probably have sworn at people in my life but I can't recall particular incidents. It would have been likely that I wanted them to go away and leave me alone. I'm sure I've told someone to f**k off but I can't think when and I've sworn when I've injured myself or made a stupid mistake.
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  5155. @Liam Fullarton-Ward Nope. I'm just professional as you'd expect someone to be and would be moaning if they were not, when interacting with you, I'm sure.
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  5156. @Liam Fullarton-Ward Good for you then. Great tolerance of poor behaviour from public officials. I hope that works out well for you.
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  5157. They are successful in their own right.
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  5158. Surprised? Farage is a fascist.
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  5159.  @factorylad5071  Too true. I know they have removed the hard shoulder safety lane from some motorways. Thankfully I don't drive and haven't been on a motorway for a long time. It's amazing how they slyly slip their relaxation of safety measures through. Maybe because the impact isn't immediate and they foster an anti health and safety culture, that's why people don't protest more about it.
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  5160. And Hartlepool voted for a Conservative MP. Perhaps most of the poor don't vote.
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  5161. Boycott people who want to boycott the BBC. Their real aim is censorship.
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  5162. Estimate pronounced Estimayte when it's the verb and Estimut when it's the noun.
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  5163. She was a very rigid thinker or stubborn if you like. She didn't let facts or evidence or failure of her policies change her mind
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  5164. You have a habit of stroking your chin.
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  5165. Aren't his opponents desperate for Corbyn not to be elected. What have they to fear? Oh yes, they'll have to pay their fair share of taxes like everyone else.
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  5166. Liam Payne from One Direction. Funny how so many people have forgotten him so quickly.
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  5167. Trump is not authorised by Ukraine to conduct peace talks about Ukraine.
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  5168. Is the name Tucker rhyming slang?
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  5169. I don't think it's snobbery. It's more about self preservation.
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  5170. Well, it's only fair.
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  5171. I don't think he's genuine. He once shouted at Khan, who was proposing to increase stop and search to combat knife crime, that it was racist. Now, before the election he seems to be all for it.
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  5172.  @expendable1969  Being a lung expert he would be knowledgeable about drugs that affect breathing.
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  5173. He must be strong.
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  5174. I don't know, but Shaun Bailey's hopes of becoming London Mayor are already over.
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  5175. Pathetic comment.
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  5176. TheDissmaster. It's excellent acting. She is deliberately hammy towards the end to let the audience know that she is being deliberately manipulative in setting up the Duchess of Gloucester for a fall (which comes later). Also the whole cast had the aim of trying to make the play as understandable as possible to audiences not used to watching Shakespeare in order to reach wider audiences.
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  5177. TheDissmaster10. Well I suppose you have to live up to your name but you'd be in a tiny minority of critics who have seen this. I've seen loads of Shakespeare plays. I'm a big fan of his and I really enjoyed this production. I don't know how many productions of his plays you have seen. Plays are not like TV shows or films. There are big variations in productions depending on the director's interpretation. P.S. You are supposed to cringe at her behaviour in this one.
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  5178. TheDissmaster10. No big expert. Just a lover of Shakespeare's plays. You have your opinion and I have mine that's all, but I would encourage you to watch the whole play, if you haven't seen it, and its companion plays in The Hollow Crown before coming to final judgement. Cheerio
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  5179. Criticsing Israel is not the same as anti-Jewish racism.
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  5180. 2:33 Are you talking about the R number which has to be below 1 for the infections to reduce or are you referring to the percentage increase in cases ? If the latter, what is the R number?
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  5181.  @Si_Mondo  Why, because you think he didn't think? I don't think so.
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  5182.  @doveronefoxtrot4417  I do believe the Labour party has the interests of people at heart and the fewest corrupt individuals and having been a civil servant in my career I have had some insight into that world. However it seems the mass media and force of habit has brainwashed too many people into thinking it's Boris Johnson who is on their side. P.S. In the absence of active support, the Tories rely on the apathy of voters, particularly those at the bottom of the pile who have lost hope.
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  5183.  @geoffedwards-tb4kp  The result will affect you though, like it or not.
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  5184. Hmm. Who is using my name?
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  5185. Where did you hear from, a medic or a scientist or is this just rumour spreading?
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  5186.  @Tony-uq8tn  Selenium is good for you. Probably no harm is taking it but whether its absence would affect how the virus affects someone is probably unproven at this stage. Thee hasn't been enough time to do any studies.
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  5187. It's not that bad but we will be at sea without a sieve if we Brexit with no deal.
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  5188. She was white in history, from the south of France but in a drama it's not necessary to be so precise with casting.
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  5189.  @Vladpryde  They are known as Shakespeare's 'history' plays as they are based on history but they don't follow the history accurately. He gives the priority to drama.
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  5190. And how will the country then be improved. What's the path to improvement?
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  5191. *wreck
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  5192. I hope that cut was for hygiene reasons and that his coat will be allowed to grow again. Otherwise it's not right to shave off his glory.
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  5193.  @MrTrilbe  *the right to be tried by your peers, and it only applied to the nobility. Magna Carta only gave rights to the nobility. it was a check on the power of the King. The peasants were not considered.
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  5194.  @MrTrilbe  O.K I stand corrected. At the time of Magna Carta the freemen were only about10% of the peasantry, but it's a start. https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/508
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  5195. I thought Pagans liked liberalism.
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  5196. Labour is not anti-white. If 'wokeness' however you define it, is your worst problem, you are doing pretty well.
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  5197. It's not punchline comedy.
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  5198. But they would have got nothing from Trump. How is voting for someone worse a solution?
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  5199.  @cloudyskiesnow  They would have got nothing from Trump so how is voting for a fascist a solution?
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  5200.  @dragonfly6908  Neither is Starmer a bollard. The Tories seem a bit obsessed with bollards. I remember John Major's big policy was to create a traffic cones hotline and in fact I think Boris's uselessness comes to the fore in his comment as bollards are not made of plastic - traffic cones are. I think that's what he really meant.
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  5201. Peter Mandelson is exerting his evil influence over Labour again.
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  5202. He doesn't seem to understand the effects of Covid on the economy. Did he ever try to stop Trump's handouts to the wealthy, even though they have lots of money already?
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  5203. Too dim.
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  5204. Honestly, I wonder what she ever saw in him in the first place. Are people just too trusting? He doesn't look to have any attractive qualities or features and I read in another comment that he has a history of domestic violence.
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  5205. It was not illegal.
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  5206.  @ronclark9724  Well that's democracy. I accept democracy and don't seek to call things illegal unless they really are.
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  5207. It's wise to let Julie Walters 'have a feel'. She was once a nurse.
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  5208.  @ep1929  I don't think he's a joke. I just think he doesn't quite have the qualities to be leader of the Labour Party.
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  5209.  Jake Songster  I'd say not. It's a question of whether politicians incited such behaviour whether they too are guilty, but I don't think it's possible to excuse one's own law breaking by blaming someone else, not unless they forced you to do it at gunpoint.
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  5210.  @juliea.w.2127  Who is brainwashed by Trump? Not me. I'm no Trump supporter.
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  5211. @Beastbombshell P.S But I agree they should be responsible for their own actions. They know the law and can't blame others if they choose to break the law.
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  5212. Stupid. She works for the country as a whole not one particular taxpayer at the expense of all the others.
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  5213. Is Trump trying to tie up the legal system with so many cases against him that there won't be time to finalise the major ones that will get him jailed?
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  5214. Perhaps they didn't like his criminal record which involved lies about a schoolboy.
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  5215. I'm cheating. I studied Latin to age 16 but have forgotten so much I can't write in Latin off the top of my head. My husband, however won scolarships in Latin when young, and is still good at it though rather rusty now.
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  5216.  @jondoe8o  Tell me less.
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  5217. @my self So do you choose not to watch any news programmes? Are you choosing to be uninformed?
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  5218. @Gary Foster Most of the newspapers are right wing as their proprietors are rich men with their own personal political agendas. The BBC at least isn't run by single proprietors who are very selective about what they publish and the slant they give to it. 'Private Eye' is a good magazine because it exposes corruption no matter what side of politics it comes from.
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  5219.  @Analiffey1916  The BBC was forced into that position on the elderly by the government because the government withdrew the amount they were paying the BBC to allow free licences for the over 75s. They then said it was up to the BBC to decide whether to continue supporting the free licences, knowing full well that the BBC no longer had the funds to do it, but the BBC not the government would get the blame for stopping it. All those who don't pay their TV licences also make it harder for the BBC to give those concessions because their funds are reducing.
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  5220.  Moonshine Buck  I believe in paying to get a good standard of TV. If no one paid you'd get nothing good and that's the way it seems to be going. People who complain that there's nothing good to watch on BBC TV seem not to understand that not paying a licence will not improve that. It will make it worse.
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  5221.  Moonshine Buck  Oh don't be so silly. People are getting intolerant now and can't bear to hear anything that disagrees with their own personal views,calling it 'biased' and those sort of intolerant attitudes led to people voting for the Nazis in Germany. I can just see many people slipping into that sort of thing now, the way things are going.
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  5222.  @hoodoooperator.5197  I searched for the videos on youtube and looked at what came up, but I also get impatient with amateur presenters wittering on. Be focused and concise I say.
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  5223.  @jamiebrooks3864  *biased. It's not the same bias though. No media is perfectly unbiased. Even if they try to be objective, there is such a thing as subconscious bias, but they best ones understand this and at least aim to have good journalists who check their facts. The cheapskate ones don't bother with such things as checking facts. They go for sensationalism whether true or false, to hook in viewers. Clickbait is part of this, when it's news online.
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  5224.  @polm4074  Because as soon as the BBC goes those other stations will drop their quality and up their prices.
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  5225.  Robert Britton  No. Do you have racist friends?
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  5226.  Robert Britton  I'm one who seems to draw comments from goons.
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  5227.  @ludwigwittgenstein2422  Hardly as the people I vote for are not the clowns in power now.
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  5228.  @ludwigwittgenstein2422  Of course. That goes without saying. Who else's opinion would it be?
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  5229. She says 'rectify' instead of 'rationalise'.
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  5230. Well historically pay has been higher under Labour, the NHS waiting lists were at their lowest ever level, and child poverty was significantly reduced. Scotland and Wales got devolution. N Ireland got peace via The Good Friday Agreement and equality legislation legislated against discrimination. Those were worth having.
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  5231. I wonder which young people will be opting for the military version so they can learn to use guns. Is this about trying to turn people into Tories or get them off the unemployment figures? Also the government is paying some private company to recruit to the army and it's been an abysmal failure. I hope they will be cutting the public money payments to them. I don't think this policy will appeal to most young people.
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  5232. Sometimes Trump almost sounds Presidential. It's when someone else writes his speeches.
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  5233. @AlexanderFodor Hamlet in the play says he is feigning madness (so that Claudius won't think him a threat.).It's not real. Though there is a question of whether he really does get near it in his distress.
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  5234. It's about quality not quantity and gut guzzling. That's why people are mostly slim in France.
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  5235. David Walliams is a comedian and a very successful children's author. The other guy was in the band 'One Direction'.
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  5236.  @lostinpa-dadenduro7555  It's paid for from general taxation.
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  5237. DUP says nooooooooo. Computer says nooooooo.
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  5238. Dominic Raab next?
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  5239.  @happymelon7129  You need to update, She did attend a UK court trial recently, albeit from a videolink, and received a sentence albeit a suspended one. His family seemed content with the outcome.
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  5240.  @divinestrike00x78  The NHS will not be sold off wholesale but little by little it's being more and more put into private company hands under the NHS logo, which the Tories will keep and regard as a 'brand'. As long as it's still free at the point of use they hope people won't notice how much public funding is going into private shareholders pockets. The USA at the very least will be interested in upping the prices of drugs they sell to the NHS.
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  5241.  @Aaron-he3qd  I think the fact that they voted to stay in the EU whereas England and Wales voted to stay is enough of a reason for another referendum. The previous Scottish independence referendum was well before the referendum on EU membership, so that's significant change warranting another independence vote.
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  5242. Henry offering to join Cromwell in the local archery competition, anonymously, leaves Cromwell speechless, not knowing how to respond. Henry probably thinks it would be fun and an honour for Cromwell. Cromwell probably thinks the archers would end up lose their heads for speaking their minds with their usual freedom.
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  5243. Mr Trump don't like it, it ain't happenin' here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q5YcmEtS4c
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  5244. Too difficult and not worth it from the Roman perspective. (Were they into cost/benefit analysis, informally?)
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  5245.  @claireclaire238  When he talks about population reduction he's not talking about eugenics but about voluntary limitation of family size through contraception and education and perhaps empowerment of women.
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  5246.  @claireclaire238  Bill Gates is not his father. Here's what I read about the Tetanus vaccine. The whole source article is linked. 'In Kenya, all 27 members of the nation’s Conference of Catholic Bishops declared that a WHO/UNICEF campaign to administer neonatal tetanus vaccines to women of childbearing age was really “a disguised population control programme.” According to the bishops, the vaccines were laced with a hormone that would cause repeated miscarriages and eventual sterility. The same conservative Catholic network the Rebecca Project had allied itself with published numerous stories amplifying the bishops’ accusations and casting doubt on the government’s response. The Kenyan Parliament was forced to have the vaccine tested repeatedly. But by the time the claims were debunked, priests around Kenya had already instructed their congregants to refuse the vaccine.' https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/bill-gates-coronavirus-vaccine-conspiracy_n_5eb9ab7ac5b69358ef8a9803?ri18n=true
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  5247.  @claireclaire238  No they weren't found. They were alleged to be there by Catholic bishops but the Kenyan government tested the vaccines more than once and the allegation was proved to be untrue. James Corbett is a journalist and conspiracy theorist, not a scientist.
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  5248. *borders.
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  5249. Ukrainians were prepared to fight to defend their own democracy and national identity. Afghanistan was not a true democracy and had no strong sense of national identity. It's a group of tribes often warring with each other. Ukrainian resistance is supported by Western weapons. Once the Americans withdrew from Afghanistan there was no such external support.
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  5250.  @dyawr  They may have left weapons behind but the Afghan Army were never self sufficient in defence of the Afghan regime, but since it was a corrupt regime and there's not really a great sense of national identity in Afghanistan, it's not surprising they were not prepared to put their lives on the line. Also, unlike in Ukraine, the head of the Afghan regime abandoned the country within hours of the Taliban attacking Kabul.
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  5251. Because there has not been a general election yet so Labour is not in government. People have to vote to make change happen.
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  5252. Hello I'm Well Done and I'm joined by Duncan Well Done. Best turn over then.
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  5253. This is why people should vote for Jeremy Corbyn in the next election.
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  5254. The government has taken back control of the railways as the companies would have walked away during Covid lockdowns. The government now collects all the revenue and pays the companies a flat fee for running the trains. During talks with the 'employers' of drivers and other rail staff, the union has said that each time a proposal is made by the union, the employers have to leave the room and check with the government. The government is controlling this behind the scenes.
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  5255. You believe in censorship do you?
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  5256. A mild mannered moderate rational caring man, scientist and doctor whose main concern is the health and welfare of the people, rather than to get Trump re-elected, is called a 'traitor'. This is why these people should never get near the reins of power again.
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  5257. Most of the corruption is and has been in the Tory government.
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  5258.  @rintymcginty5618  They have to be careful because their charter requires them to have balance, and the UK government appoints their governors. However, the UK government is Tory and right wing (since 2010) and yet lots of people accuse the BBC of being left wing. Since they get accused of being opposite things (government { right wing} propaganda, and left wing propaganda) that's an indication that they sit somewhere in the middle of those two.
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  5259.  @BobBob-cn1yy  No.
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  5260. @giddy What country are you talking about? You can't call the Tories left wing.That's so ignorant. All modern countries tax and regulate. You're not living in Victorian times. Tory governments deregulated the financial system in Thatcher's time, leading to globalisation of capitalism that can move money and jobs to the countries with the cheapest most exploited labour. It allows rich people to keep their profits in offshore tax havens, it privatised the railways, water, gas and electricity and the forensic service, Treasury buildings, and army recruitment. It allows foreign corporations and foreign criminals laundering money to buy British property. It semi privatised the post office, education, prisons , court services and the probation service. It required the NHS to put its services out to tender with private companies. There are a lot more public services that have been outsourced or privatised - too many to mention. They hate Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party who are socialists. Socialists would not do any of the above. It's true that hate speech is banned. The government doesn't want civil disturbances. Your comment about being told what colour underwear to wear shows just how childish, ignorant and self pitying your thought process and your level of understanding is.
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  5261.  @lomgshorts3  If that was the case, you would have no one in politics who was representative of the average person. Only the very wealthy would be able to afford to go into politics and their interests are very different from those of the average worker.
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  5262. Make them work for advertisers rather, and serve up cheap fare - more reality TV is what's needed isn't it, because we just don't have enough of that and it takes our minds of stuff that really matters.
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  5263.  Hugh G. Rection  How people well name themselves on youtube never fails to surprise.
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  5264.  @richkingb01  Yes it is. BBC 4 is brilliant for my tastes and interests. I also like BBC2 which Peaky Blinders debuted on, and lately there was Peaky Blinders on BBC1 as well as Poldark. The BBC also was a co-producer of the brilliant TV series 'Rome'. If you didn't have the BBC you wouldn't have their brilliant back catalogue either. I also like Radio 4 though it's dumbing down a bit now it's being squeezed of funds.
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  5265.  @godzilla2k26  What do you mean 'so you settled'?
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  5266. I get there's a no confidence vote but I don't understand why. That wasn't explained. Are they objecting to his pro Russian policy for instance?
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  5267.  @soyouknow8207  ?
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  5268. The production of veal is cruel. I'm glad I can recognise it on a German menu now so I can avoid it.
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  5269. 4:25 'No trial will began?' Did this person not learn English grammar?
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  5270. Keir Starmer is holding the government to account in Parliament.
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  5271. *pouch? I don't think he could fit a small dog under there.
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  5272. Putin is a mafia like kleptocrat. That's what he's about. Holding onto power for his own interests, a bit like the Tories.
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  5273. For them, the gravy train has derailed.
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  5274. He's talking about the effect on ordinary people whether they realise it or not.
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  5275. He was booed at the Superbowl.
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  5276.  @1chish  The Tories are the experts at smearing.
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  5277.  @libtardsrus7823  Odd question. Personally speaking I followed the rules for mask wearing, social distancing hand washing and vaccinations and I never got covid. My husband - the same.
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  5278.  @andyharpist2938  Because Tories are incompetent and corrupt and don't care, but I don't live in Wales. I've had good health services where I live and it's not a Tory area.
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  5279. Remember to close the bow doors.
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  5280.  @barbaralindhjem1582  What's evil about it?
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  5281. The Sweden style experiment didn't work.
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  5282.  @jamescaley9942  They are asking questions based in the WhatsApp messages exchanged between government members. Nothing to do with the Guardian.
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  5283. If Rod Liddle doesn't take her seriously, she must be doing something right. Nothing she said was factually wrong. The apology is because the BBC is under threat from the government which threatens to scrap the TV licence. If anyone is bullying it's the government bullying the BBC. Also the BBC apologising did not say what Rod Liddle says they said. They said she was summarising questions to be put following her introduction and that wasn't made clear. I don't think that's right either, but it was the BBC trying to save face and meet the government's requirement for an apology at the same time.
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  5284. Quite a lot of it is being 'lent' so will have to be repaid when businesses recover.
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  5285. And here's the next stage in the Gloucesters' downfall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjr5wjIiJ7E
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  5286.  @daffyddduck2419  The Israeli government. Who started you?
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  5287.  @daffyddduck2419  Forced to anyway.
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  5288.  @daffyddduck2419  Which sentence is not coherent?
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  5289. How can you be 'overly ambitious' as a political leader? Surely the object of all of them is to get into power to be able to do stuff.
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  5290. It's global warming you need to worry about.
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  5291. For most of human history, life for most was nasty, brutish and short.
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  5292.  @NoLefTurnUnStoned.  Exactly so.
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  5293.  @fuckoffyoucunt  Eh?
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  5294.  @purplesunflower8242  Do check your facts. Khan is not responsible for London drains nor is he responsible for the Marble Arch mound. keeping drains clear is the responsibility of the local councils. The drainage system is the responsibility of Thames Water and The Marble Arch Mound is the responsibility of Westminster Council - a Conservative council.
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  5295.  @purplesunflower8242  Where does it say that? Westminster council initiated it and it passed through their planning system. I don't know whether Khan had the power to stop them. Westminster council clearly saw it as a money making exercise since they sold tickets to see it. They argued that it would attract people back to London. If Khan had any power to stop it, he might have thought it's green and it may attract people back to London. I've not seen it personally. Have you? At least it would be easier to remover than some awful sky scraper though I fear it may be a waste of Westminster Council's money.
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  5296.  @purplesunflower8242  P.S. I've just checked and the mound would have been referrable to the Mayor for permission if it was over 30 metres, but the mound is 25 metres so is not referrable to him for permission. Here's a link to the Mayor's powers which explains: https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/planning/planning-applications-and-decisions/what-powers-does-mayor-have-planning-applications
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  5297. I think he wanted to be in power to be able to control the financial framework that allows him and other wealthy Tories to carry on making a lot of money without restraint. I think that's what most Tory MPs are concerned with. They fear Labour will regulate more, tax the wealthy more, chase up tax avoiders and plug tax loopholes.
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  5298. So why won't Boris publish the report on Russian interference in the UK elections? Could it be they are helping the Tories? After all those Russian oligarchs who want to launder criminal money through Britain can do it much more easily with the Tories in power.
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  5299. Buying a home is a term that includes freeholds and leaseholds but recently leasehold contracts are getting to be a bit of a scam and the terms need checking carefully.
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  5300. Did Maga voters not have the capacity to listen to Trump or what he was saying, or do they have a greater capacity for self deception?
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  5301. People working with Trump will probably now say what he wants to hear for fear of being fired. I don't think the Donald knows what's a crime and what isn't. 'wouldn't of' in the subtitles? poor. conclusory'. Who is making up words? The word is 'conclusive'
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  5302. I think it's not just about pleasing Meghan. For Harry it's about keeping his wife and son away from the pressure of the press, feeling that they are being hounded as his mother was, and concerned to avoid what happened to his mother happening to his wife.
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  5303. Not really. It reflects theological struggles and it's not as if there haven't been flaws visible in the Catholic church even in modern times. That doesn't make it blasphemous.
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  5304. They can confiscate the proceeds of crime.
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  5305.  @edwardvalivonis23  He'll have to have an account in the UK at some point in order to use the proceeds in the UK and as soon as he does they can be confiscated.
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  5306. They are making stuff but not getting orders it seems. The government is not being honest. I believe the supply they are expecting is coming from China. I suspect they had some sort of exclusive contract with China but as we know, China had to close its factories and businesses for weeks because of the virus.
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  5307.  @Ann-ez8ml  Yes it's odd why their offer hasn't been taken up. The government is not coming clean about PPE problems. They've never fully explained what the problem in getting hold of them is. The whole world is after PPE supplies, that's true and China which supplies a lot of it, had to close down their factories for weeks because of the virus and were probably buying up stocks around the world for their own people. I understand the supplies that Hancock is expecting now are coming from China. I wonder if they've been tied into some exclusive contract with China in the past.
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  5308.  @zhangruyi3153  We haven't been doing it because it was cheaper to buy it from China, but China had to close down a lot of their industry and also needed the PPE for themselves when they had a huge breakout of the virus. It only goes to show that it's not ideal for the UK to rely on importing everything we need as some pro Brexiteers seem to think.
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  5309. Evidence?
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  5310. Sharia law? This is more like mob rule.
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  5311. Mephistopheles.
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  5312. Anyone who wants to be Prime Minister probably isn't qualified enough, but I think the Tory party will go for someone safe such as Ben Wallace as an anti-dote to the high jinks of Boris Johnson.
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  5313. I think it may be in light of a recent survey that found a lot of NHS staff were experiencing racism in the NHS. They don't have enough staff and need to keep hold of those they have.
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  5314. They are not 'one story high' if they have an upper story.
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  5315. Othello was often played by white actors blacked up. Lawrence Oliver played him and so did Orson Welles.
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  5316.  @BloodOfYeshuaMessiah  Queen Margaret was regarded with suspicion as a foreigner. She was French but since we're friendlier with the French now perhaps her casting is a metaphor to show that 's she's different from the rest of the Court. It doesn't bother me anyway. In Shakespeare's time all the women were played by men.
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  5317.  @Quest4Horror  * bear arms, (unless you are proposing a requirement for long sleeves).
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  5318. I don't think Trump is ever going to admit that he's lost. Even when he's out of office he's going to maintain that he was robbed of victory, even if all of his court cases fail.
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  5319. They should have realised long ago when Trump called them 'losers'. The spending was always mandatory anyway. The GOP are making up excuses because they only did this to spite the Democrats.
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  5320.  @marklutz95  Republican fairytales .. they voted for the exact same bill before. They only didn't vote for it this time to punish the Democrats for out-manouvering them on something earlier that was unconnected with this bill and now they make up false excuses. Just look at all that fist and elbow bumping afterwards - no care for veterans at all.
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  5321. Well it was part of it while it was conquered, like it or not. It was ruled directly from Westminster for a long time.
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  5322.  @waterloowar  I don't think so. By not processing immigrant claims to distinguish between genuine refugees and illegal immigrants the Tories paid to house them all. Labour will process claims faster, return illegals and refugees allowed to stay will be able to work and pay for themelves.
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  5323. How do you know they have not got jobs?
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  5324. Don't equate the working class with racists and don't forget it was the working class that gave the UK Labour Party a landslide election victory after WW2 to rebuild Britain, create the NHS and nationalise essential resources such as water, coal, energy and railways.
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  5325. That is her title. Charles made sure of that.
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  5326. That cat looks cross eyed.
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  5327. No. It's Tracey Ullman in disguise.
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  5328. Does Shiseido test their products on animals?
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  5329. *in vain
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  5330. We're good at manufacturing corrupt and inept politicians. Anyone buying?
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  5331. Where do your figures come from? According to these stats cases in the USA have already exceeded 10m https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ In fact you are at 10.25m
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  5332. I hope they don't lose their traditions. Many modern cities look so alike and boring. It would be nice to know some history, like how they came to be one of the few Spanish speaking countries in Africa. Do they have any native languages? Gabon is a French speaking oil rich country and everything is expensive there too but they have everything imported. They don't survive on the food they grow themselves, and they import all skills, but often don't have the skills to maintain the infrastructure that has been built for them. The natives don't do labouring work. Work is done by immigrants from other African countries who are rather looked down upon. The country, apart from the capital city, Libreville, is mostly jungle with some dirt road. The climate is very hot and humid. My knowledge of this dates from the 1980s so may be out of date now, but the President at the time gave a lot of senior government roles to his friends and relatives.
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  5333.  @daredemontriple6  From recalling more info now, I believe you have it right.
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  5334. Elections do change things. After WW2 Churchill was out and Attlee (through his minister Nye Bevan) created the NHS. Election campaigns are not for the purpose of being entertaining.
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  5335. The British guy is being deliberately obtuse. Anyone who doesn't want to be filmed has the right not to be filmed. He doesn't have to film them.
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  5336. It's a crime to impersonate a policeman. Arrest Boris quick!
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  5337. @codalex Then you are a criminal
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  5338. I think Labour will be in government within this year. Lack of power has hindered progress on this.
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  5339. Lawlessness starts from the top in this society.
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  5340.  @johndewalt3108  Sounds very Hitlerish
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  5341. Who was 'the warm up act'?
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  5342.  @amandahunter4034  Lol.
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  5343. So many people on this channel know nothing about international law and they vote and comment on the basis of knowing nothing. You could look it up if you could be bothered.
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  5344. Brexiteers were told to ignore experts before the Referendum and generally did. Even if the UK voted to rejoin the single market now, the EU might not accept us. It only takes one dissenting EU member to block a rejoin application. Starmer probably wants to avoid promising something he knows can't be delivered within maybe a decade and more now.
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  5345.  @jamesoneill2933  Don't speculate based on your prejudices. Wait for the facts to emerge.
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  5346. Euros were handy for people travelling through Europe though or trading across EU countries.
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  5347.  @GR-sc3ph  His story didn't sound right from the beginning. Why would robbers only tie up the stronger of the couple and kill the weaker? Why then would they leave him as a witness?
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  5348. Everything's 'fake' and 'phoney' if it doesn't suit Trump's story but his story changes from day to day.
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  5349. This government is a bunch of liars though. Can't rely on what they say.
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  5350. So many Trump supporters on this site. Can't wait to see them eating chlorine washed chicken and facing American healthcare providers after Brexit. Also when much business and jobs disappear from the UK. Will they still be cheering then I wonder?
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  5351. *Corbett
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  5352. A better title would be top 10 songs that gained popularity through their use in AMERICAN movies. Clearly the rest of the world doesn't exist.
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  5353. Barry Customerservice
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  5354. Jethro Fakenews John Brexiteer Rowena Remainer
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  5355. UK deaths at home - possibly some were from hypothermia, not being able to afford heating?
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  5356.  @LondonSteveLee  I said 'some', which could be some during the Winter season. Just a thought.
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  5357. So he doesn't disagree with Liz Truss's direction. He just thinks she went too hard and fast so we're in for a slower car crash rather than a fast one. Time for a General Election. Based on his track record, this man's judgement about economic policies is not the best and I'd doubt his political judgement too. He says the only successful policy that can be carried forward on NI 'is the one that we have' (which should be adhering to the signed agreement, the protocol, not reneging on it). Giving into DUP blackmail is atrocious but not surprising. Throughout history, British governments have given in to unionist blackmail, but the DUP's position on Brexit (pro Brexit) is different from the way NI as a whole voted (which was to remain in the EU), the DUP never agreed to the GFI and is now the minority party in NI and is losing votes, but thanks to this Tory government their chaotic policy on NI will continue. Supporting the prejudiced agenda and nonsensical position of the DUP, as time goes on, will find the Tory government on the wrong side of history with NI. 'The jurisdiction of EU law in NI' as he terms it, allows NI the privileged position of free trade in goods with the EU as well as with mainland Britain and it's only some trade rules. It's a privileged position which is allowing the NI economy to thrive. The Tories don't like it for ideological reasons and because it shows up the difference in performance between a part of the UK with access to the EU and the rest of the UK which has bureaucratic trade barriers as a result of leaving the EU.
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  5358.  @julien3331  Since he'll be offering 2 options, how can you say it's to get the vote he wants? In fact he's probably a leaver at heart much many in his party are remainers so some in his party will be disappointed whatever the outcome but he said he'd stick with what people voted for. Boris's deal is not a good one at all. It's merely a vehicle to lead towards a hard Brexit exit which will not benefit ordinary people.
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  5359. Was it because after that drubbing, Zelensky would not sign the minerals fleecing agreement?
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  5360. Comments are vetted before being allowed. Only positive comments are allowed it seems.
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  5361. It's the banks willingness to gamble with our money that will bring on the next crisis. If Boris really cared about British financial sector welfare though, he wouldn't be going into a hard Brexit.
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  5362.  Bobby Smith  I didn't say that's how it works, but someone asked why they head for Britain
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  5363.  @Simlife101  I doubt it. I think the rules were changed some time ago to make it tough for people to do that.
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  5364. Who will dare now?
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  5365. If 95% of adults in England and Scotland are estimated to have antibodies, how is it that so many people are still catching Covid. Where does that estimate come from? Surely Whitty is concerned with the fast spread of Omicron (as it spreads much faster than Delta) will outpace the ability to roll out booster vaccines fast enough, and the protections of previous vaccines do wear off after a time.
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  5366. They are all for the filthy rich in fact, though they have a facade of being blokish and for the ordinary man
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  5367. Paul Starmer. The 17.4 million stabbed themselves in the back and when politicians try to save them, they insist they don't want the treatment. Fine. Let's just see how that goes.
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  5368. Yes, it's funny how the Tories can never spend more on the NHS unless it's to hand the extra funding over to private companies, who only spend a proportion of that on patients because the rest goes to shareholders.
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  5369.  @dnciskkk9037  We spend proportionally less than the rest of Europe, who mostly have insurance based systems. If we spent the same that would improve things. The left is not in power I remind you, and does not have the power to alter government data collections. It's the Tory government which doesn't collect adequate data if that is a problem. I saw some recent facts that stated that immigrants actually cost the NHS less than they pay in. EU travellers may use the NHS free because this is part of a reciprocal arrangement which involves British travellers having free access to EU healthcare systems. The left is also not in control of immigration as they are not in government. The Tories won't spend on public services and that includes not spending enough on the Border Force that would be the ones to detect illegal immigrants. You are just reading all the bilge spewed out by Tory papers, The sun and The Daily Mail, I expect.
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  5370.  @dnciskkk9037 Here are some current controls on drug prices for drugs supplied to the NHS . The rules and limits are set by the UK government it seems within an overall EU framework. However the rules can be changed in the future at any time provided they are within an EU framework and that constraint (which is not much as it just describes a scheme without figures) can be completely abandoned if we Brexit. Also the NHS saves a lot by buying generic (patent expired) medicines which are cheaper than branded ones but the discussion document that Corbyn got hold of saw discussions about US intentions to extend patents on drugs which would mean American drug companies could charge the NHS more on those drugs for longer. https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/w-005-2025?transitionType=Default&contextData=(sc.Default)&firstPage=true&bhcp=1 fber.
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  5371.  @dnciskkk9037  Because the Tories will have to cave in to some demands from the Trump administration in order to get a trade deal with him and what they are telling the British public is not what Trump is telling the US public, which is more in line with the leaked document. The Tories don't really care about the poor or the NHS. Dominic Cummings himself has said so if it wasn't obvious to anyone from their ideology and track record, so it will be no skin of their back to concede to the USA on these areas.
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  5372.  @dnciskkk9037  The US will be a dominant partner in a trade deal. I don't see Trump giving any ground to us as we will need a deal more than he will. This is from a Metro report on the leaked trade discussions document with the USA. 'The notes detail six preliminary meetings between British and American trade negotiators between July 2017 and July 2019, a few weeks before Johnson became Prime Minister. UK Officials describe the discussions as ‘the first lap’ of talks on a wide range of policy areas they ‘might expect to feature’ in a post Brexit trade deal. The health service is mentioned a few times along with US negotiators talking about the cost of medicine and the possibility of lengthening patents. Once patents expire the NHS is able to buy generic rather than branded versions of the same drug. They are typically shorter in the UK which is one of the reasons why medicine is much cheaper than in the US. American negotiators said there is ‘a lot of conversation’ in the states about drug prices and that ‘looking at what other countries pay is causing angst’. But fact-checkers say there is nothing to suggest the UK have agreed with US demands (Picture: Getty Images) They have concerns the US is ‘not getting a good deal in pharmaceutical industries.’ It echoes American trade objectives published in February which say they ‘full market access’ for pharmaceutical products. This would limit the control the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has over which drugs can be given to patients. ' Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/28/labours-nhs-sale-document-leak-fact-checked-11232546/?ito=cbshare Twitter: https://twitter.com/MetroUK | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetroUK/ That's it now. I'm not wasting any more time on a blockhead.
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  5373.    It's project look up the facts, not project fear. The people had few facts when they voted 3 years ago. Anyway since you are set on it, no facts will get in your way obviously.
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  5374.  @dnciskkk9037  In the US for example, it costs $250 for an asthma inhaler. Do we really want the NHS to move onto unrestrained US pharma prices? That's just a licence to treat our public services as free money they can extort. There's even been a case of the NHS being charged £1000 for a bottle of mouthwash to help treat the side effects of chemo patients. NICE is a body of doctors that examines whether a drug is effective. If you take NICE away we're open to all sorts of expensive drugs that don't necessarily work well. You have a naive faith in Trump's sense of 'fairness' and if we have zero tariffs under WTO rules we can still be charged tariffs by other countries (e.g The EU who will charge our farmers over 40% on their beef and lamb exports to the EU). Patrick Minford who is a pro hard Brexit economist has admitted that zero tariffs under WTO rules will destroy British agriculture and manufacturing as they won't be able to compete with cheap tariff free imports from countries with low costs because their labour forces are paid very little and have few if any rights.
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  5375.  @dnciskkk9037  Get an education. I do know about WTO because I looked up WTO rules on the WTO website. What research have you done? Don't answer that. I can't be bothered with you anymore. Just keep your head stuck in the sand.
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  5376.  @dnciskkk9037  I do understand the topics I do use my own words mostly but I support it with independent evidence which I link. You accuse people of all sorts without ever having done any research yourself and without independent evidence to back up your claims. I don't think you are even capable of understanding the evidence presented to you. Democracy is not set in aspic. More votes does not mean less democracy.
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  5377.  @dnciskkk9037  The Tories have not denied that the document Jeremy has is genuine. It doesn't matter who leaked it to whom. If it's genuine, it's genuine. I'm not going to waste my time anymore because you wouldn't accept any evidence that contradicts your views, no matter how genuine.
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  5378.  @fanfanackapan  Except that bollards aren't plastic. In his usual careless way, Boris gets it wrong. It's traffic cones that are plastic.
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  5379. There are no militants in the establishment. The establishment is the establishment. It doesn't need to be militant. It's sitting comfortably. From that you can gather that the establishment is not who the right say they are. The establishment is the wealthy plutocrats and tax avoiders and their tame politicians.
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  5380. The civil service is neutral and only serves to carry out the wishes of the government of the day.
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  5381.  @PBas-qq4uh  If the question is a reference to Ministers, yes. If it's a reference to Civil Servants like Wormauld, they are not allowed to take second jpbs.
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  5382. It's very good acting. They are trying to make Shakespeare understandable to the widest possible audience. Also, this is acting within acting, as the Queen is pretending to be offended at the end, but she is a manipulative person who is setting the Duchess up for a fall.
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  5383. You are easily terrified. Which aspect terrifies you most?
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  5384. Wearing masks will control the spread of the virus and keep town centres open.
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  5385.  @matthewwalker5317  So how would you control it?
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  5386.  @davidbarlow350  It's more about not spreading it, so those people who unknowingly have it won't spread it around through coughs and sneezes as the mask will inhibit much of that liquid from being jettisoned as an aerosol spray in the air. If masks were no good at all, why do all the medics wear them?
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  5387.  @matthewwalker5317  What you are not taking into account is the longer term or permanent effects on some survivors, even those who are young or who didn't have a severe experience of the virus. There is plenty of information on that if you look. I'll give you one example. In Germany they MRI screened 100 patients who had survived the virus and discovered that the hearts of 78 of them had been affected. Many had infllamation of the heart, but Covid can affect other organs too. e.g. lungs, liver, kidneys. It can cause blood clotting that leads to strokes. That's not to mention long term fatigue afterwards or loss of muscle tone while on ventilators, leading to people needing physiotherapy in order to walk again. It's a nasty disease and one best avoided. Of course there will be people it doesn't affect much who won't be aware they have it, but it's not entirely predictable. Even Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who dismissed the disease, said he was fit and it would not affect him much if he caught it, took no precautions and caught it, now says he's been left with 'mouldy lungs' afterwards.
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  5388.  @davidbarlow350  No. I am going to get my flu vaccination as usual, but Covid 19 is not flu.
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  5389.  @davidbarlow350  I'm in a vulnerable group so the statistics are different for me. I'm not intending to take the Covid vaccine until I see how that goes with people. Covid is a coronavirus not a flu virus. I can tell you're getting frustrated as you are resorting to insults, so this will be my last comment. I'll let you have the last insult. It's good to get things out of your system. It might calm you down.
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  5390.  @matthewwalker5317  I didn't think that about you but it seems an apt description now that you say it.
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  5391.  @matthewwalker5317  👍
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  5392. It's versus not verse. It's like you get what you vote for (except for those who didn't vote for them. They get what they didn't vote for).
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  5393.  @chrismcparland5274  But we were never told what leave would mean for the economy. The Leave Manifesto suggested we would have a great deal but it can take up to 10 years to negotiate trade deals. In the meantime WTO rules would apply which mean tariffs on trade and what that would mean for the economy was never discussed. In any case the EU won't be offering us, in a deal, the kind of terms we had as a member of the EU so there will be an econimic hit and it was never admitted or assessed at the time. Cameron never had a plan for leave as he was convinced that Remain would win and when leave won, he resigned leaving others to sort things out.
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  5394.  @chrismcparland5274  In answer to your last question. They will hope we still continue to buy from them but they will certainly make it more difficult for us to sell to them. At least I've looked up the rules rather than just throwing about slogans like 'project fear'. Anyway we will see as Brexit is going to happen now though there will be a one year transition period unless Boris dumps his withdrawal agreement. He has said he will get a deal with the EU ready for a year's time, but since EU deals have never been negotiated in such a short space of time, it remains to be seen whether he can do it or even whether he really wants to do it.
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  5395.  @chrismcparland5274  Yep. It's a tough old world out there and no one will be doing us favours when we're out of the EU.
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  5396. @Andrew Battersby What I mean is to contrast a hard Brexit which is leaving the EU without a deal, with Corbyn's idea of a Brexit to save jobs, which was staying in a customs union with the EU. A few countries have arrangements like that with the EU but they are not in the EU. I can't remember them all off the top of my head Turkey is one.
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  5397. @Andrew Battersby Well if our government has overseen a 67bn trade deficit inside the EU, I don't hold out much hope of them doing well in the wider world. We are governed by incompetents. Look, though I don't have confidence in the Tories, I hope things work out well for the north of England and for long neglected areas in the UK.
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  5398. Watching the Covid spread, tragic.
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  5399.  @arkatub  There's no such thing as 'highly socialist companies'. Those are opposite concepts. It's like saying communist capitalists. Social democracies are the better option, as in the Scandinavian countries which come out high on the Happiness Index.
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  5400. Tulsi Gabbard in charge of intelligence? She won't find much of it in this Trump regime.
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  5401. What is your evidence for that? If you have evidence you need to report it to the police rather than writing libel on youtube.
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  5402. This doesn't promote fear and hysteria. Your reaction is your own. It's actually good to know there are such people taking care of the sick.
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  5403.  @israeldiegoriveragenius2th164  I am no defender of child abusers. You will be hearing from my lawyers.
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  5404. At 21:12 and 21:24. Except for his skin colour, Cheddar man looks a lot like the guy who used to be the Secretary of our local allotments. I like the twinkle in his eye. He looks like he had a sense of humour.
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  5405. The globalists are Boris Johnson and the hard Brexiteers because a hard Brexit (a Brexit without a trade deal) means trading on WTO (world Trade organisation) terms. They have no particular strategy for protecting British business. Boris in the past has said f*** business. He is also alleged to have said f*** the 7/7/ families.
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  5406. Democracy's not dead. It just f*cked up voting this government in
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  5407.  @TeeTee-dz8xj  He asked a question though he forgot the question mark. I answered his question.
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  5408.  @grapefruitshortwave1071  I think you'll find, if you look it up, that sentences beginning with Who, What Where, When, or How etc are classed as questions grammatically. Don't they teach grammar these days? I imagine it was a rhetorical question (i.e one that does not require an answer), but I thought I'd answer it anyway.
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  5409. It was on the news at the time but not the whole speech.
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  5410.  @MattyMooreChannel  Well Boris nearly died from it.
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  5411.  @mylon5227  How do you know? The NHS staff who cared for him confirmed it and they had no love for Johnson. They were at pains to clarify that he got the same care as every other patient they cared for, as he seemed to talk as if he had special care but they never corrected what he said about the seriousness of his condition.
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  5412.  @mylon5227  why would he hire paid actors who seemed so annoyed with him and keen to correct his misrepresentations? How could they tell lies and that the hospital would not correct? Not everyone is corrupt outside of the political world and especially not inside the NHS hospitals that would not put up with any such misrepresentations.
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  5413. It means letting Boris do what he wants. Ultimately leaving the EU without a deal and if he gets elected on Thursday he'll neuter Parliament, The Supreme Court and the opposition, open up all media to tell lies with impunity, and gerrymander marginal constituencies, to try to ensure no opposition party ever gets elected again. (See page 48 of the Tory Manifesto)
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  5414. Who is Kahn? Khan?
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  5415. Are the prison guards giving the true picture I wonder in these accounts? Are modern prisons much better? There's nothing about toilet arrangements for the women. There's no indication there was much violence or neglect or how mental illness was dealt with. The food doesn't seem to include any fruit or vegetables (necessary for health) though one image appeared to show cabbages being grown in the grounds outside of the prison. Another picture shows women exercising while holding the hands of their children but there's no mention of children in prison. It's surprising that the women were allowed to have scissors for their tasks. I don't think that would be allowed now. I'm sure I would not survive in these prisons but hair cutting would be the least of my problems. It's just hair. It will regrow, and they are allowed bonnets to cover their heads it seems. It doesn't mention how short the hair would be cut.
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  5416.  pinkie perky  Well you are right that there will never be enough masks for the population so most of us wont have that option. As for whether the virus can spread from person to person via being airborne (as opposed to being coughed or sneezed over someone or being taken in from infected surfaces) the experts can seem to agree but this is the WHO's position https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf No harm in being extra cautious though.
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  5417.  pinkie perky  Well I'd trust science to tell me rather than someone who is not a scientist.
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  5418.  @GlobstersMessenger  Droplets are heavier than air so if someone emits droplets they will fall to the ground - hence the 2metre distancing advice, I guess.
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  5419. Because many factors contribute to crime levels that are not under the control of the Mayor but he is frequently challenged on it by his opponents.
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  5420. Half Scottish.
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  5421. Can the coders automate their own jobs I wonder or just other people's? I wouldn't think it's safer either. If there was a software glitch or hack, who would be there to safely disembark passengers stuck in tunnels or between stations? If there's a landslip or an obstacle on the line causing an accident who would be there etc etc
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  5422. Natural selection will weed out idiots who don't listen to advice and don't protect themselves and others. If it's a hoax, it's the most expensive hoax in the world ever. There are easier and cheaper ways to control us with new technology if that was the aim. It's not a hoax.
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  5423. When is a foreigner no longer a foreigner in Japan? If they live there for most of their life are they still foreigners? Do Japanese people try to fit in with the culture in other countries when they visit?
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  5424. War is a tragedy for both sides.
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  5425. How do you know? What is your field of expertise? I'm sure the medics know what is killing the people they are caring for.
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  5426. Doesn't realise that there's less democracy out of the EU because it's other countries that will dominate your economy instead, some of them very unsavoury, or small cabals with in the Tory Party with very particular and vested interests (such as hedge funds) which have nothing to do with the interests of the British public. Also he wasn't asked how he was managing now that he can't get enough staff since Brexit.
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  5427. Is this a metaphor for Putin putting the boot in?
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  5428. What about supporting British invention and technology?
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  5429.  @QwertyQwerty-bd3tm  We had a tech up in London near Old St. I'm not sure what happened to that but the modern history of British inventions is that the government doesn't invest in rolling them out so they get bought up by wealthy international corporations who reap the benefit but not for the UK.
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  5430. My generation would say ' I'm fine' when asked 'how are you?' in the UK. I think 'not too bad' was more an older generation thing. The latest expression now is 'I'm good' which is not even grammatical as strictly speaking it should be 'I'm well'.
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  5431. You need to check your own English grammar before criticising others. It should be 'barely able to' (not 'can barely') or you've missed out a ' it that' after 'Why is'.
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  5432.  @neil676 As the saying goes, be sure you're not in a glass house before throwing stones.
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  5433. MP at 1:19 is a plant in all senses of the word.
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  5434. Is that fair on Kier?
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  5435.  @ParallelSyntax  He has more leadership skills than Boris. Why do we need a personality. We need competence and honesty. Voting for a personality is how people ended up with Boris.
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  5436. New Zealand has been doing that for some time. We'd be starting at the bottom with trade deals often taking up to 10 years and in the meantime we'd be trading on WTO terms which is like the 4th division of trading. No country in the world trades on just those terms for that reason. They all want deals but you can bet New Zealand trades with their nearest neighbours. They don't try to import fresh food from half way around the world. Much of our fresh food comes from Europe and will become much more expensive if we hard Brexit out unless we place zero tariffs on it but then our own agricultural industry will fail as it won't be able to compete and at the same time Europe will be putting 40% plus tariffs on British lamb and beef. That's just one example from one type of trade. No one has ever pointed to concrete benefits for the average person or the country from a no deal Brexit. It will only benefit a wealthy elite of corporations and other tax avoiders who want to be free of EU financial regulations and tax harmonisation rules. The less tax, the less funds for public services like health and education.
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  5437.  @1jasonmatthews766  What policies are you referring to? New Zealand was never in the EU, so it never left the EU.
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  5438.  @1jasonmatthews766  I will have a look for info on the New Zealand economic model, but I don't buy the argument about the power of the unions. The power is always with employers and unions grew just to try and add a bit of fairness and balance by giving some power to employees, so that those creating the wealth don't see it all siphoned off into shareholders and executives pockets. Of course you can sometimes get corrupt unions just as you can get corrupt employers. One good model of union participation is the German model. Guess who drafted the German constitution after WW2? - the British! We already had our own rather rickety model which has never been updated in the same way.
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  5439.  @1jasonmatthews766  I've looked. It doesn't look like a great model to me - maybe some macro benefits but not for individual New Zealanders https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/12624/unstable-and-unequal-new-zealand-economy-not-good-model-independent-scotland
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  5440.  @1jasonmatthews766  Don't tell me. I lived through it. It was Thatcher who destroyed the coalmines in Britain when she decided to close them down. She didn't put anything in their place either and the North of England is still suffering from that blight today. Hopefully Cobyn's plan to create jobs by investing in green industries will help there. I will look at some documentaries on Germany in the 60s but why the 60s? It seemed to be doing fine in later decades. The 60s is so close to the disaster of WW2.
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  5441.  @1jasonmatthews766  I'm still looking at Germany. I see their economic production overtook ours in the 1960s . I'm looking at the details of that. However the lack of manufacturing in the North has other causes. 1) The loss of the British Empire which was a major export area 2) In WW1 the USA took advantage of Britain's difficulties to steal their markets - as the saying goes, 'one man's difficulty is another man's opportunity'. 3) Britain lost its markets for cotton and wool which was produced by northern mills. A newly independent India was a competitor and produced cheaper cotton 3) Thatcher closed down the mines and didn't replace them with anything.
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  5442.  @1jasonmatthews766  I'm not sure about the pay cut. I didn't see that but the German finance guy cut very high taxes (85%) even on average type incomes) to 18%. There was also a lot of borrowing and investment (which the UK is bad at doing but which Corbyn proposes). Brtain's weakness in the 1960s was lack of industrial investment in contrast to Germany. In Germany the state was very influential in stimulating growth in the economy. German workers did work hard and worked long hours. They still have a reputation for that and they are well educated and well trained. There is no snobbishness about trades. If they did take a pay cut that may be because they had tax cuts also and with the constitution the British wrote for them, workers representative bodies would have been consulted and agreed the pay cuts. It's always easier to proceed with such actions if workers are consulted and can see the longer term benefits rather than having cuts imposed on them, but as I say the tax cuts may have made up for the pay cuts. It sounds like a sort of social contract.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtschaftswunder
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  5443.  @1jasonmatthews766  Labour's Manifesto is not fairy tales. It's no more radical than the Manifesto implemented by Labour in the 1945 government and if you read (Tory) Churchill's speech of 1943 and his Manifesto of 1945, he was planning to implement similar things (though not all the nationalisation but he was planning to introduce an NHS and education reforms - lots of investment planned). By the way, here's a good idea and one of the reasons many German workers might work hard (even if it wasn't in their nature) https://www.worker-participation.eu/National-Industrial-Relations/Countries/Germany/Financial-Participation/Basic-Data-on-Profit-Sharing-Employee-Share-Ownership
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  5444.  @1jasonmatthews766  Which 'People's Party.' There is no British People's Party it seems, only a EU one. That's irrelevant in a British election.
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  5445. He thinks he's still fighting the last election.
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  5446. So has he written the book ready for release when the time comes or has he not written it yet, I wonder, and it's only an intention at this stage?
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  5447. The government thinks this and believes that, but they can't or don't do anything useful.
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  5448. Sounds like he's been drinking.
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  5449. This title is silly and illogical and incorrectly paraphrases what the Professor said. Of course conservatives losing in 2024 would be unprecedented, because there is no other year 2024 which could be a precedent.
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  5450. He retired.
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  5451. The EU may prefer to have a deal but not on any terms. They will have worked out that they stand to receive more economic damage by complying with Boris's requests than by resisting them. I see the UK being squeezed between the nutcracker of the EU and USA. Boris tried to play one off against the other but that failed.
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  5452.  @carlarthur4442  Corbyn didn't say that, because it wasn't true. The Tory tabloids made that up to discourage people from voting for him and get them voting for Boris and they succeeded.
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  5453. It's a bitchy song.
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  5454. They should have seen this in the run up to the election. There were so many tell-tale signs they must have ignored.
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  5455. I thought the 'hoodie' was our national costume - from medieval times to now.
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  5456. Isn't it possible now to use the internet to join hobby groups where you can see and talk to people while doing activities you enjoy - art groups for instance? I know older people may feel they don't have the knowledge but if there was a charity group that could help and teach them how to do this it would cut down the isolation, especially during lockdown.
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  5457. 'A simple proposition' by simple minds. The unions already provide for emergency cover when on strike. This is just Tory propaganda in the absence of any constructive action. The MP on the right of Sunak (or left from his viewpoint) looks like Earl Spencer though he can't be.
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  5458.  @Tezo1981  His name was Joel Cauchi if you are keeping up with the news and he was a schizophrenic who had mental health problems from his teens. He was also a male escort offering services to men and women.
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  5459.  @BIBIWCICC  No, not like that guy.
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  5460.  @thethinkingman-  More interesting than your comment anyway.
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  5461.  @thethinkingman-  Ponder away.
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  5462. He isn't bothering. Didn't you know? He's never been bothering.
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  5463. Richard Fitzwilliams and Williams Fitzrichard.
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  5464.  @DDD-xx4mg  It's said that you can't buck the markets. Marx said that capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction. We are a country that's not paying its way. Our economy is not good and has suffered further since Brexit. There's no easy way out and there will be pain to come.
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  5465.  @colinpatton3859  Brexit shrank our economy.
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  5466. He's always looked horrible.
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  5467. Well this is not shit.
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  5468. That's the difference between prose and poetry.
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  5469. Because they all know that no deal would be disastrous for the UK economy. No one is discussing what will happen in a no deal scenario. In the run up to the Referendum, the leave campaign was to leave with a deal, the implications of leaving without a deal were never explored. It will deliver a powerful shock to the UK economy, if we try leaving without a deal just on WTO terms. No country in the world trades just on WTO terms because in trading terms it's the 4th division. They all want deals with a big trading block which is the premier division which is where we are now. It's a bit of a myth that the EU controls us. There are some rules of membership but 99% of what the UK spends is determined by the UK government not the EU. So what happens if we go to no deal WTO terms? We have to then set a tariff for trading with the world and under WTO terms it has to be the same tariff for everyone we trade with. If we set a tariff that will push prices up for UK consumers and we'll be worse off. If we set a zero tariff (possible under the rules) our farming and manufacturing won't be able to compete with cheap imports from countries where workers have no rights and are paid pennies an hour so our farming and manufacturing industries will be destroyed. Patrick Minford, an economist who is in favour of a hard Brexit (a brexit without a deal) says the same about the future of British farming and manufacturing. It will affect other economic sectors also. a hard Brexit means dropping off the cliff from day one. There will be no transition period without a deal. Wealthy people like ex stockbroker Farage and Jacob Rees Mogg will profit from a hard Brexit because WTO rules do not regulate financial systems and they will be even more free to transfer their profits to tax havens around the world. The very people who want Brexit because they are suffering under the present government's austerity programme, will suffer even more under no deal Brexit. None of this was explained before the Referendum by a campaign that wasn't even talking about a no deal Brexit. As for getting trade deals, as a member of the EU, we have over 4000 trade deals that will no longer apply the day we go out on no deal and Liam Fox only has a handful lined up to replace them. Trade deals take years to negotiate because they are complex covering everything traded between countries. Trump is protectionist and the US is a larger economy than ours, and if we want a trade deal with the USA it will be very much on his terms, as he doesn't need to deal. His negotiators have already said they want access to NHS funding for their corporations as part of the deal and for us to take their farming products like chlorine washed chicken and hormone fed beef - practices currently banned by the EU. China and Russia are not our friends and in any case they don't allow countries to export freely to theirs. They are also protectionist. Asian countries have each other to trade with nearby. The only thing India wants from us is more visas for people to come here. Other countries won't make up for the loss of the big trading area on our doorstep (the EU). The way out of our problems is to vote for a party that will do something about inequality in the UK and protect jobs and trade, and that's not the Tories or the Brexit party. Farage has stated he is for replacing the NHS with an insurance based market system. He is for taking restrictions off the sale of handguns and he has other right wing policies too. If we set a zero tariff, that would be zero for EU trade also, except as outsiders the EU would be placing a tariff on us (could be 40%). That would make us uncompetitive in trading with the EU. You can't just count the cost of trading with the EU in terms of our subscriptions. You have to count the benefits to the economy too and the health and welfare of people to get the whole picture.
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  5470. *pissed off not pissed, unless you are an American. However if it gets too bad next year I expect a lot of us will be drinking to get pissed.
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  5471.  @annoyingbstard9407  How is he right when the remoaners here are saying they are pleased and relieved by this?
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  5472.  @charlietm4350  You don't seem to know what's happening. The UK has said it's legislating to illegally break the Brexit withdrawal agreement they signed with the EU last year - the one that protects the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. The US has said there will be no trade deal between the US and the UK if the UK goes ahead and breaks the Good Friday Agreement aspects of the Withdrawal Agreement.
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  5473. Only the wealthier will be paying more, that's what he doesn't like as it will affect people like him.. Employers can't pass on extra NI taxes to workers in terms of their wages, if workers have a contract of employment. That would be illegal.
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  5474.  @JackIves  Are you calling me a dumbass child or someone else? Your comment does not need explanation by me. It's self explanatory.
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  5475. That's nothing to boast about is it?
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  5476. No. The media is the messenger. Don't shoot the messenger.
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  5477. @TheClassicalSymphony No one can know what someone thinks unless they express it.
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  5478.  @paulkavanaghk  No one can know what people think unless they express their thoughts.
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  5479.  @paulkavanaghk  The police police illegal activity. Hate speech is illegal but you can think you hate someone without expressing it in speech or writing.
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  5480.  @lewis123417  The Uk legislators decided that hate speech that encourages or stirs up violence against its citizens is not something it wants to tolerate. It's against its core values. Slander and libel are also free speech but you can be sued for using those 'freedoms' too.
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  5481.  @lewis123417  Where speech is blocked though not 'illegal' it's often down to the actions of corporations who don't want to lose customers by being associated with unpopular views. It's down to 'the market'. They are undoubtedly being over-sensitive but they won't take risks.
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  5482. @TheClassicalSymphony Within the law.
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  5483. @TheClassicalSymphony You are free to say that. That's not the same as hate speech.
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  5484.  @lewis123417  Hate speech is a crime. I think it's within the equalities legislation.
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  5485.  @peeceei7470  Did they search her because they were suspicious of why she was standing in the street? Maybe they thought she might be selling drugs. You don't find people's thoughts by searching them.
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  5486.  @lewis123417  I thought that encouraging violence against people or inciting killing of certain groups of people was punishable. I remember Anjem Choudhary being sent to prison for over 5 years for urging support for ISIS.
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  5487. Journalists talking about how we never hear Kim Jung-un while talking over him so we can't hear him. Lol.
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  5488. Because it's so easy for anyone, no matter how disturbed, to buy guns.
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  5489.  @jasondevon481  So bearing that in mind, what paperwork and processes would you advise business to implement in order to follow government advice to prepare for trade with other countries after Brexit? This is rule by the Kakistocracy.
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  5490. Depp is a credible witness. I wonder how Heard will compare when she takes the stand.
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  5491. Andrew Marr has no judgement. He was extolling the virtues of Liz Truss a month before she crashed. Now he extols the virtues of Penny Mordaunt but in her previous race for the leadership she showed herself to be very naive and ignorant and made very bad mistakes.
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  5492. ? You might get a painful operation.
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  5493. Is it 'the night of the long knives' all over again?
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  5494. *Walliams
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  5495. *Queen
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  5496.  @davidedwards1336  A taunt from the infant playground but typical of Boris with his lack of integrity and dignity.
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  5497. Julie Walters, not 'grandma', thank you.
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  5498.  @cgdimension  No. The right will turn on the left first and vice versa.
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  5499.  @alexbowman7582  Well a bigot then.
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  5500.  @Brexituk  Islam is the religion of a large minority in his country though.
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  5501.  @diehardernxgt2161  O.K a bigot rather than a racist then.
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  5502.  @Raj_Singh-321  I have not used the word dictator but you want me to define it for you? How can I when I'm only a 3 month old?
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  5503.  @taffpatch1  I've answered that point already in the comments if you read them. I used the word bigot instead.
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  5504.  @littlefluffybushbaby7256  You don't have to be to have an opinion.
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  5505. That comment doesn't make sense.
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  5506.  @PhilipMarcYT  I think if you bother to read the comments you'll see I changed racist to bigot. I see I must change my main comment to accommodate those who don't read on.
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  5507. I don't know why people lose insurance (health insurance?) by earning more. Can anyone explain? Is she referring to Medicare?
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  5508. David Sanchez. Where is it incompetent? You realise that the hammy part is meant to convey to the audience that the Queen is being deliberately manipulative in order to set up the Duchess?
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  5509. Dozens (plural) is more than one dozen, so two qualifies as dozens unless you are making up your own language. The civil service doesn't deliberately set out to stymie the agenda of the Tories. They just can't be expected to put themselves in jeopardy by breaking the law. Breaking the law is against the government approved Civil Service Code as well as being against the law of course. Strangely the so called party of 'law and order' seems to have no moral qualms about breaking the law themselves. GB News presenters are thick or biased or probably both. Yes Minister is entertainment, not reality.
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  5510. 'rebuilt with billions and billions of dollars'? I hope he's not envisaging a US takeover of the NHS.
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  5511. Never give personal info or make payments to someone you don't know ringing you unexpectedly and asking for these.
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  5512. I don't think Israel cares about breaking international laws or being condemned for it. They have been breaking them for a long time in terms of illegally taking over land that is not theirs. They should be boycotted the way South Africa was boycotted for its apartheid policy. Syria doesn't care about human rights and breaks them in its own territory.
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  5513. In a democracy people are allowed freedom of thought aren't they? It's a bit odd that you think her demise was sad but would have liked more elimination of people who thought like her.
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  5514. They do the best programmes because of licence fees. I'd rather that than they drop down in quality level because they have to compete for the dumbest audiences and fill their programmes with adverts.
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  5515. blazednlovinit. You don't have to have a TV or watch BBC iplayer (many people don't these days) then you would not need to pay a TV licence. You can get your news online and your films from netflix. I think the BBC keeps the standards of other TV channels up as they have to compete. Also it's good to have a national channel that connects everyone rather than TV all being in the hands of private companies that can go bust at any time. A lot of private companies are in the control of rich men who have an agenda and will be very selective about what they show and are not bothered about showing "fake news" when it suits them or exerting censorship of the news. It's good to have a channel that's not subject to those pressures and has to abide by a charter requiring it to be fair and balanced whatever people think about it. Also it sells a lot abroad and keeps Britain's profile and reputation high in the world and can be a great influence for good. For instance a worldwide campaign to reduce plastic wrappings and containers has had a high profile and some political success following a BBC nature programme by David Attenborough where the effects of plastic on sealife was seen, though that was not the purpose of the programme.
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  5516. I dunno. It's the want want want, me, me, me society now. So you want to risk the sink in quality of TV? Well some things are for the good of society as a whole. TV needs to cater to the intellectual and educational, and high quality reliable news needs of society was well as entertainment, but as some of those things have smaller audiences, than say, the porn channels, you won't find private sector companies providing those services, and if it's only to be paid for by a smaller pool of people, the poorer in society won't be able to afford it. At least this way the costs are shared out.
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  5517. blazednlovinit. Well YOU may not care but you are not the whole of the nation. You may not care about some of the stuff taxes are used to pay for but taxes aren't optional either.
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  5518. blazenlovinit. There are things that people generally would not choose to pay for, given a choice, but all governments have decided that it's for the good of society that we have those things. For instance road taxes. Who would volunteer to pay them if they weren't compulsory. Actually I don't drive. I never have driven and I don't have a car but yet a proportion of my taxes goes to creating and maintaining roads. I accept that though. I don't continually moan about it. Rupert Murdoch's agenda is to undermine the BBC so he can dominate the news agenda without much contradiction and if we relied on such people for news we'd get what Fox TV provides in the USA some of which is unverified and absolute nonsense. There's no concern about whether it's true or not. If it fits the agenda they pump it out and being fed false news can lead to things like war as people get more and more incensed about what they are being told. It helps the wealthy media owners to divide people and have them at each others throats so people don't unite to challenge some of these wealthy owners agendas.
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  5519. blazednlovinit. I know you don't give a crap because you only see the individual perspective. You are wrong about roads too. You see you haven't been watching BBC news and have probably been watching crap TV instead. Here is the true position. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=does+council+tax+go+towards+road+repairs%3F&oq=does+council+tax+go+towards+road+repairs%3F&aqs=chrome..69i57.19965j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8. Read the first sentence of the first item. We need the BBC so every voter does not end up as ignorant as you.
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  5520. blazednloviit. MPs say they are not there just as robots to do the public's bidding. They have to look at the costs and benefits of anything and make reasoned judgements too. If the government did just what people wanted, there would be chaos because there would be no one taking a co-ordinated overview of the impact of lots of individual wants, which might have conflicting outcomes. Many people would push for things just because they can see what's in it for them (like you) but often in ignorance of the facts or what other consequences may result.
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  5521. blazednlovinit.To answer your comments: If you don't watch TV then surely you don't need a TV licence, so you don't pay anything to the BBC unless you watch via iplayer. You were ignorant because you said my taxes wouldn't go towards roads when the facts are that they do. Parliamentary democracy does not work the way you think it should. It never has and never will. In fact no democracy works like that or ever has. It's not practical for it to, for reason already mentioned, but a government does need to be broadly in line with the views of the majority otherwise it won't get elected. However when you vote, it's on a package of the more important policies outlined in the parties' mandates. If you agree with the ideology of the party you vote for, you gamble that it will generally take you in the direction you want to go on any other policies also, but that's as far as you can determine it. God doesn't exist so he can't give powers to anyone. That's just an old justification given by people in power.
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  5522. blazednlovinit. Here's the info on who needs to buy a TV licence ...just in case you don't really need one http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one I can access BBC news without going through iplayer although iplayer appears as an option on the BBC news page when I get there.
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  5523. blazednloviit. But if you watch TV online from another channel (not BBC) and you are not watching it live but only as a recording, but it's not been recorded by you, it's from a recording stored by the provider, that wouldn't seem to me to come within the scope of when you need to have a licence. At least it doesn't seem worded to cover that. http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/about/foi-legal-framework-AB16 Perhaps they mean that if you use ITV Hub for instance, you can't be stopped from watching live ITV programmes, so must pay the licence, but if ITV could separate their access point for live programmes from their access point for the programmes they have recorded, people would not need to pay a licence fee. Do you see what I mean? If that's the case, some of these independent channels could do something to bring watching their recorded programmes outside of the scope of the TV licence fee.
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  5524. It seems like they are now following Farage's bad behaviour model.
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  5525. What a whinger! How stupid he is. He doesn't seem to understand the relationship between cases, hospitalisation and deaths. Florida also has a lot of elderly people who will be more vulnerable to severe effects of the disease.
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  5526. Their news programmes keep up the standard of news on other channels. Their new dramas keep up the standards of dramas. Bin it and watch standards drop, and you'd be expected to pay anyway if you want to watch TV without adverts every few minutes.
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  5527.  @sudo_nym  I hate adverts interrupting programmes every few minutes and taking ages to run through so that it a problem for me and I watch the BBC more than any other station. I like the quality of shows - pity about the repeats but I don't want to pay more for all these commercial stations and get adverts thrown at me as well. Commercial stations are more likely to field fake news because they have fewer checks on it.
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  5528. Putin's like the school bully but with massive weapons.
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  5529.  @maureenchallener1529  If the problem is still there after 6 months, do the same again.
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  5530.  @Colin623  You know that was because of a world collapse in banking which also affected British banks and the Labour government plugged the gap and persuaded other countries to do the same thus saving international capitalism and economies from collapse due to a crisis of confidence? It also saved people's savings from disappearing but you can thank them later. The cause was a whole network of world banks buying into debt from sub prime mortgages in the USA.
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  5531.  @Colin623  The thing is that every comment I've seen like that before has always been from someone having a dig at Labour's economic management. Glad to hear that wasn't your implication.
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  5532. You take offence at, not offence to. Having 'taken offence to' the facts he put before her, she follows that by lying. What a corrupt scumbag. She should be forced to sell a yacht or two to provide compensation to those students.
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  5533. The Tories have for some time been funnelling public funds to Tory constituencies even when those constituencies are not the best match for the criteria for distribution of those funds. Threatening withdrawal of funds for non compliant behaviour is just taking things a step further.
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  5534. Victims of abuse don't abuse their abusers like that because they would fear the consequences. All the evidence shows she was not the victim of abuse.
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  5535.  @Swampert384  Thankfully it's not my country.
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  5536.  @elzilchojd  Not me. I understand those things. I was in the top group in maths at school.
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  5537.  @Angels1168  Just because people had other illnesses doesn't mean catching the virus didn't kill them. People can live a long time with many illnesses but Covid can attack the bodies of people with underlying illnesses more severely because they have less resistance. Covid can cause a thickening of the blood to produce strokes and can attack bodily organs.
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  5538.  @awesomekingakathe66bro36  I guessed they are not reporting accurate figures but I've no idea of the real numbers.
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  5539.  @keithhylton4631  As long as people don't touch each others clothes they should not catch it from that source, but it can be airborne from the mouth which is why a mask protects people in more. It stops it being spread in an airborne manner.
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  5540.  @ubermind-tim  I agree with his aims.
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  5541.  @ubermind-tim  No. There is only one science which is that whose results are verifiable and repeatable by any scientist. 'Science' that does not fall within those parameters is not science.
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  5542.  timchuk mark  Well the medics insist on wearing masks as part of PPE and it certainly inhibits infected people from coughing over others. Of course masks alone are not going to stop a person getting Covid. Keeping social distance and frequent hand washing are essential too.
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  5543.  rod speaks  What else should we be bound by but science? Superstition perhaps like in medieval times? There have been at least 1m Covid deaths in the world. The stats are individually reported by each country. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ I believe the state does have my best interests at heart (UK) because I am in the older age group with co-morbidities. I do feel guilty about the effects on the rest of society of protecting the likes of me. Seasonal flu is seasonal and there's a vaccine. We don't know how or when Covid will end. I calculated that in the states about 2.6% of the population have had Covid so far. We don't know about the health of the survivors because there is such a thing as 'Long Covid' where people live with chronic conditions brought on by Covid. In the time of the Spanish Flu I think it was San Francisco that avoided the problems of the first wave by following strict conditions. Unfortunately they then got hit by a second wave which they weren't expecting and had relaxed conditions by then. We don't know that herd immunity can be achieved because Covid 19 is new and we don't yet know everything about it or how it behaves. There are now people who say they've had Covid more than once. If it mutates like flu and cold viruses it will certainly be able to infect people more than once.
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  5544. Covid 19 isn't the same as flu. You should check the facts on that. It can make the blood sticky and inclined to clot so it can cause strokes and other problems. It can attack other organs. Young fit and healthy people will most likely not be badly affected by it but co-morbidities including obesity can make people more vulnerable to serious consequences. We don't yet know everything about the virus or how or whether it will end. We don't yet know whether herd immunity can be achieved as some people now claim to have had it more than once. We don't yet know whether it will mutate like cold and flu viruses or how long that might take and unlike flu there's no vaccine for it generally available yet. We don't know how many lives have been saved by restrictive measures or whether people are following them properly. In the UK research has indicated that at the height of the virus when the country was in lockdown, only 18% of people who should have been self-isolating did it properly and only 11% of people who should have been quarantining after travelling from abroad, did so properly. Public events seem to be the easiest way it spreads. It would be sad if there were no possibility any longer of music concerts, theatre and public celebrations. We should all try to do our best to bring down the R figure (the spread rate) for the sake of ourselves and our communities.
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  5545.  @keithhylton4631  It's 3 things that are necessary to stop the spread of the virus, mask, hand washing and social distancing. The mask on its own probably won't do it but medics insist on wearing them and they do have the benefit of stopping anyone unknowingly infected from coughing or sneezing over others.
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  5546.  @Angels1168  What you said about a virus not being able to give people strokes is not true and if you bothered to look things up you'll find that different viruses behave differently . Some are more virulent but less easily spread. Ebola didn't much affect the west. The few cases in the west were caught early on and isolated and treated. Also some have symptoms that everyone notices quickly. Covid 19 can be symptomless in some people and the highest time of infectiveness is just before symptoms appear so people can spread it without knowing they have it or before they get symptoms. I'm a bit fed up explaining things to people who think they know it all but are ignorant and can't be bothered to find out for themselves so that's all from me.
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  5547.  @Angels1168  I agree. Science is literally knowledge and we need to pay attention to it. Scientists will admit there's a lot that is unknown about the Covid 19 virus yet. I've seen people now claiming to have had it twice. How long will immunity last even if there's a vaccine I wonder?
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  5548.  @Angels1168  The cdc is science based is it not? I don't get the logic of your comment. Yes it spread to the USA and will continue to spread if people don't take action to avoid giving it to their neighbours. 230, 000 deaths so far. That's about 115 x the twin towers death toll isn't it?
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  5549.  @Angels1168  There is a vaccine for the flu and the stats show that Covid has this year killed more people in the US than the flu killed in its worst year for deaths in the last 5 years.
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  5550.  @Angels1168  I don't get how you can say that when you're not a doctor and you weren't there when they died. That's not facts that's just what you want to believe. People can live for many years with chronic illnesses but catching Covid often doesn't allow them to do that. I know that, I've had chronic asthma for 25 years and diabetes for 11 years, and I'm perfectly fine but I don't think I'd survive if I got Covid. Covid can also kill people who are obese. My brother in law had Covid and it gave him a stroke which happened during his illness because Covid can cause blood thickening and clotting. There is also Long Covid where people recover but find they have to live with long term symptoms such as fatigue or damage to their lungs. Covid is best avoided if at all possible. Also Covid is coming on top of seasonal flu and hospitals may become overwhelmed in the Winter having to deal with both at the same time.
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  5551.  Peter Kit  No one knows who has natural immunity. Young people with no underlying conditions have died from Covid, so vaccination is the safest option (statistically).
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  5552.  @gustavobarajas6155  Science is repeatable and verifiable by others conducting experiments, religion is not. It depends on faith alone.
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  5553.  @loralarose9615  Could there be a less relevant comment? Were they keeping a distance or hugging each other. Were they all double vaccinated? You don't know the relevance of your statement unless you know those things and followed up to see how many caught Covid afterwards.
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  5554. Huskies produce a lot of poop. Someone must be cleaning it or it would be seen all over the yard.
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  5555. Ukrainian forces
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  5556. Isn't that great!
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  5557. Sharks, the lot of them.
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  5558.  @kellysmallman8864  What are you referring to? I don't take notice of conspiracy theories, only maths and science.
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  5559.  @kellysmallman8864  I rarely get my news from Sky.
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  5560.  stuart mcdermid  Why?
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  5561.  @cupxd471  No. Science only. I am not a superstitious uneducated medieval peasant but a product of man's development via the Age of Enlightenment.
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  5562. It exercises the brain, particularly non thinking ones. It's not child abuse.
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  5563.  @daisybuttercup6801  I disagree. Maths and science is rules based at the basic levels whereas Shakespeare stimulates the creative mind. We need both to become rounded people. Who do you know who has ever said that Shakespeare dulled their mind? They may have found it dull if they did not understand it but that's not the same thing at all.
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  5564. Trump as President again. Now that would be a scream.
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  5565.  @William1866  I don't have time to list everything. Look up the youtube video titled Trump's 30 Biggest Broken Promises. (I think posting links to other videos is no longer allowed or I'd do that for you). That video doesn't include Trump paying election funds into his family's personal accounts, increasing the national debt, all the lies he's told, the Jan 6 attack on Congress which he encouraged or the threat to change the constitution and democratic processes so that he will be able to stay in power if he gets elected again. His main interest in being President is personal gain and avoiding prosecution for criminal activities.
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  5566.  @vegahimsa3057  Diabetics are advised to avoid fruit.
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  5567.  @ianfitzpatrick9755  Too much meat can cause high cholesterol and colon cancer.
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  5568. The plural of ally is allies, not ally's. That's a grammatical failure.
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  5569.  @shirlinealmeida5279  *deteriorated
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  5570. There's more at stake here than the price of eggs.
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  5571. Ricky is a lefty too. He just doesn't like hypocrites.
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  5572.  @jeanlockley2911  That's not an informed comment.
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  5573.  @emm_arr  Religion is irrelevant.
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  5574. So he's appointed someone who resigned previously - another disposable, and one with a finance rather than a health background.
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  5575. Why does anyone vote in Neil Hamilton? He's practically a Nazi in his beliefs.
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  5576.  @yvettethornton4629  One that is truly dim, prejudiced and even more useless than the Tories. What is so called 'patriotism' but the refuge of the scoundrel?
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  5577.    He's the biggest charlatan. He cares only about his own career. You do know don't you that the day after the Brexit referendum vote he was queueing up for a German passport and that he was trying to arrange a career in the USA?
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  5578.  suburben yobbo  I believe he was turned down for the passport because he didn't meet the criteria ( the requirement to have lived in Germany for a certain length of time) and he gave false details on his application in response to that question (A German address). There was a German police case on it. Anyway it's hypocritical because Brexit will mean Brits in general will find it harder to travel to EU countries (more bureaucracy, more cost, longer airport queues) but if he got a German passport he would escape all of this. I suggest Brexit was what prompted his application for it, as he applied the day after the Referendum result. Other hypocritical wealthy Brexiteers can escape some of the the consequences of Brexit, having their cake and eat it, by buying citizenship of Malta, and some are doing so.
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  5579.  suburben yobbo  My point was that it will still benefit the wealthy after Brexit, only the rest of the population including the working class will lose out. I think it's hypocritical when the wealthy Brexiteers or those with dual passports don't come clean on that. Farage was applying for a passport for himself by the way. His kids may have them already as they have a German mother.
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  5580.  suburben yobbo  You seem to miss the point. He was keen for a no deal Brexit which would see British people suffering the downside of that while at the same time thinking he would not have to suffer the downside, and not being open about that with Brexiteers. In the end I don't think he got his German passport. I'm not sure because he refuses to give a straight answer to the question. However if you are happy with him, good for you.
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  5581. You're joking. Trump still won't condemn Putin. He'd give him everything he wants. Trump talks himself up a lot but it's basically bullshit talk.
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  5582.  @Chiefmismaker  Putin has got some hold over Donald. Putin would know he could do what he wants with Donald in charge in the USA, and Donald would not have agreed sanctions. He can't even bring himself to criticise Putin or condemn him for goodness sake - never mind agree sanctions. Why do people think the sun shines out of Donald's ass. That's just his own assessment of himself and his followers seem to swallow it. The only talent Donald has is for entertainment and showmanship.
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  5583. You want more of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpj0xeTnqBk
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  5584. Everything Trump's children need to know?
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  5585. If you're open for business I don't think you can pick and choose who comes in. That's discrimination, unless someone's acting badly or unlawfully. What's the issue anyway?
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  5586. You could see clearly that the needle went in. There was that little moment when the skin resists before it goes in.
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  5587.  @Gracie1344  People are often so cynical now and yet, at the same time many are often willing to believe any barmy unsubstantiated conspiracy theory. They choose what to believe based on what they'd like to believe - consumer choice. Lol.
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  5588.  @maxmorris4562  It's not a 99% survival rate, more like 98% but lets not split hairs.Some of the more recent variations, seen around the world, have higher death rates. The alternative to vaccinations is longer lockdowns, unless you want to end up like India with hospitals overwhelmed and having to reject patients. One of the reasons the death rate isn't higher is that hospitals are treating and saving lots of people. Survivors though can suffer from permanent damage or long term symptoms. This is known as 'Long Covid' and there are over 1 million of sufferers in the UK, so around 1 in 4 of cases. Vaccinations are new but build on the vaccination knowledge and science that already exists. Millions of people have been vaccinated now so the level of risk is known and it is far far less than the risk of Covid but if you are young you may decide just to risk Covid instead, and rely on your immune system. The rise in world population to 7 billion is very recent in historical terms. It was only about 2.7 billion when I was born. The reason that life expectancy has increased so much is because of sanitation, better nutrition, and health services (including the availability of vaccines).
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  5589.  @maxmorris4562  It's a small risk. I've had both doses of the AZ vaccine as my risk from Covid would be much higher than my risk from the vaccine.
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  5590. There must be a lot of animals dying in the fires too.
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  5591.  @debbiehenri345  This is terrible. Trump is part of a party that wants to squeeze public funds for things like this and particularly wants to starve democrat voting states of funds. It's criminal. I hope Trump gets booted out in November. There are trees that are fast growing but they won't necessarily be the same kind that were burnt down. If the climate is now more likely to produce forest fires, I can see there might be a reluctance to replant forests.
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  5592. As far as I know she's never suggested anyone should be shot.
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  5593.  @farmerned6  When did she support Hamas? As for supporting the IRA, she distanced herself from that support in 2017 when asked about it saying her views had changed since 1984 and MI5 had changed. Supporting any side at that time, including the British side would have meant supporting shooting.
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  5594. Angela phases out the German coal industry as part of moving to greener energy production. Thatcher just shut the UK coal industry down in the '80s to be replaced by cheap coal imports.
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  5595.  @raymondelliott2280  Indeed. Many people don't know the behind the scenes shenanigans that go on by the Tories.
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  5596. Spending so much money on the military benefits no one unless you go to war and war benefits no one but the military industrial complex and rich investors. Taking money from domestic programmes hits so many more people. Thank goodness Romney never became President.
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  5597. Are re-infections milder than first infections (on the whole)? Do we know the percentage of people who have never been infected? This surge in infections doesn't seem to be getting the same publicity as before and no new vaccinations are on offer, it seems. I don't think I've had Covid or if I have I haven't noticed. I was classed as vulnerable. Now getting back to more normal activity, ( arranged to travel to see friends, arranged to go to the theatre, scheduled for jury service etc) I'm worrying about the risk, in light of the latest surge in infections, and concerned whether I should really be doing these things. Very early on in the Covid pandemic (before March 20) several in the household (including me) had an odd illness of tiredness and headaches for about 3 weeks but no other symptoms. This was before tests were available and before lockdowns. More recently one of the household had Covid but I didn't get it. Is this just luck I wonder. Took me a month to get over the Pfizer booster and I was relieved when I was told I wasn't vulnerable enough for an additional Pfizer booster.
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  5598. If AI was given a mission to save the planet they'd probably get rid of human beings wouldn't they?
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  5599. I don't suppose you'd mind as long as it was your political agenda.
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  5600. You didn't notice the worst line up of opponents I've ever seen, then?
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  5601.  @colinbaker3916  I don't know where you are getting your information from but in the last election (2017) overall the Tories lost 13 seats and Labour gained 30 seats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election . It's a tricky time at the moment with Brexit coming up. Both Labour and Conservatives support Brexit though they have different ideas on how to go about it. For that reason the public doesn't see clear water between them on that issue. I suspect that party support won't change significantly until after the fallout from Brexit, by which I mean, once people can see what the effect on them is, and once the parties start tackling other issues again because they have very different ideas on other issues. The government benefits by how much they can shift the blame for society's ills onto other groups (who are not in power) such as liberals, leftists, immigrants, workers and benefits claimants etc and the largely Tory supporting press helps them to do that. That makes people blame Labour even when they are not in power. For instance the latest rail fare rises are being blamed on the Unions, but I don't see any blame being attached to the costs of the complicated, expensive and utterly daft privatised system we have, or the amount that shareholders take out of the system or the complete mess that was made of the timetabling system in the last year which the Transport Secretary washed his hands of. The government and news media seem quiet on all but the timetable mess.
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  5602.  @colinbaker3916  I heard it on the BBC and also in some local London newspapers. The responsible Government Minister , The Secretary of State for Transport, Chris Grayling, has been blaming the Unions for the increases and the news media has been reporting this. Here's an example https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46731749
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  5603. It doesn't help if most of the records were burned in a civil war (Ireland). Didn't Augustus's direct descendants die out before him which is why his stepson, Tiberius, became emperor?
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  5604.  swave158  I know that. I've been listening to Phil too. But as Michael Caine might say 'Not a lot of people know that'.
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  5605. Because if you say too much of what you are going to do, the Tory government could have tried to do things to sabotage them in advance, before leaving office. Also they can't be clear about what they can plan before seeing the state of the finances which could be worse than they anticipate.
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  5606. There's lot of difference. Politics is not just about the economy and doing deals. You have a constitution which is the legacy of the founding fathers and provides rules and rights which must be respected. They are legal requirements. The constitution provides for checks and balances in government. It's not a one person dictatorship. Other people have key roles according to the constitution. Trump thinks because he was the boss of a business, he can just behave as a dictator with no recognition of any rules and no respect of others' constitutional roles.. That will be his downfall if he continues not to understand how government works and why.
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  5607. I think by 'Parasite Class' they may be referring to anyone who relies on state benefits or federal programs not just the civil servants or agencies that administered them.
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  5608. Fox News doesn't let any views on its channel that it disagrees with or that it thinks will challenge its audience and lose them audience share and therefore lose them money. As part of that strategy it knowingly tells lies to its audience. Fox News is a huge part of cancel culture when it suits its purpose. Any views don't suit its purpose are called woke or lefty and Fox acts like a victim in all this. It's laughable.
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  5609. Trump must be one of the worst people in the world to work for. If any of the crowd gets Covid, he won't want that made public. Was Trump raised to dissociate himself from reality? He surely damaged his own support further by telling people how he'd asked for the Covid testing to be slowed down, for fear of showing up the true Covid figures.
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  5610. Meaningless slogan to catch voters.
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  5611. Auditors can always challenge the accounts and writings off and refuse to sign off the accounts if they are not satisfied - even bring in the police maybe. The NAO (National Audit Office) should be looking into this.
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  5612. Isn't brutality a vice?
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  5613.  @TheMogregory  I think it might.
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  5614. Do you have to be 'liked' by religions or religious authorities in order to do the right thing by Gaza?
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  5615.  @earthman6700  There's not a lot of trust for people who switch allegiances.It's felt they need to prove themselves.
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  5616.  @jibjub2121  O they love a posh educated boy with nice manners. They never notice the deviousness or double standards.
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  5617. I ceased to be a subscriber in Jan 22 (if I recall correctly) for 4 reasons. There wasn't anything more I particularly wanted to watch. Some recent things I'd watched seem to have been of lesser quality, and I was not watching much because I was spending my time doing other things. Some of the good things they showed had come from other sources that I already had access to, such as the BBC. The subsequent rise in fees did not encourage me to return.
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  5618. Another massively ignorant statement.
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  5619. The funniest part of his evidence was about a 'surreal day' when they were considering moving from plan A on Covid to a plan B. In the middle of this an aide came in and said Trump wants you to bomb Iraq. Then another aide came in and said Boris's other half Carrie was going crazy about a story about their dog that had appeared in the newspapers and wanted the press office to deal with that.
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  5620. Trump's not really religious and is a misogynist. Didn't you see that?
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  5621.  @everythingisupsidedown9593  Really? Which common founders were there?
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  5622. Nothing is as amazing or beautiful as the Earth.
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  5623. ?
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  5624. Is rectal cancer the same as bowel cancer? Bowel cancer is not uncommon, but I don't know about rectal cancer.
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  5625. Does Trump understand tariffs? Why on Earth is he introducing them?
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  5626.  @alfern1770  Which Marxists and Communists were in power?
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  5627. He cares about getting cold himself. He doesn't care about people coping with California fires.
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  5628. @JackDutch-b2n The difference is the scale of lies told to get elected. Democrats hope more to get elected via truthful promises but it's easier (as Trump has proved) to get elected with lies by saying what voters want to hear, even if it's contradictory, and even if when you tell the awful truth you are not believed.
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  5629. If you mean a spine to go for hard Brexit, it's because they know it would be a disaster for the economy, and they won't get it through the House of Commons as there's not enough support for it. If you mean the spine to renegotiate the paving deal with the EU, the EU won't budge on the things the Brexiteers don't like, like the backstop arrangement, so I don't think any of the jokers who come to the leadership next will do any better.
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  5630. Leadsom says there's no evidence that Priti Patel has done any of the things she's alleged to have done but that's questionable at the very least. Patel was judged, by the government's independent Advisor on standards to have broken the Ministerial Code (according to those who saw his report' ) but Boris Johnson overruled that judgement and buried the report.
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  5631. Where's your sense of humour? This show, by Tracy Ullman, not the BBC, parodies politicians from left and right of the spectrum. By the comments, we see who it is that has no humour now.
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  5632. Shailesh Kumar. I'm not a conservative like you, and the jokes go both ways in this show. They make fun of Jeremy Corbyn too.
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  5633. That sounds rather paranoid to me. No one can destroy people's power of discrimination unless people let them, and I certainly wouldn't classify the BBC as trying to do that. The BBC are hardly anarchists. You're barking up the wrong tree there, or perhaps you are just barking.
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  5634. He pronounces morale like moral.
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  5635.  @allanbyallas7546  Indeed but if everyone was taken by surprise, and even the staff were. They may not have had time to strap up. That's what I heard victims say.
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  5636.  @baum7275  I think he just broke those long words down because they are a bit of a mouthful for a foreigner and easy to mangle.
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  5637. Probably caught through cyber detection rather than snitching.
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  5638. Words in English that Americans pronounce differently from English people: Moscow, Duke, Bolshevik, Pogrom, Basil
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  5639. Governments should ensure a minimum liveable income for everyone or at least for the unemployed. It would be a way of ensuring the benefits of AI are shared more fairly, but will they do it. In democracies 99% are not going to agree for the 1% only to benefit. However will the 1% be able to fool the 99% through AI fakery?
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  5640. I think she just had to shout the answer.
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  5641.  @jitblues  No. But there's no need for hatred.
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  5642.  @PohjanKarhu  More than one person with hate then.
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  5643. David Frost lives in fantasy land though.
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  5644. 'No more lockdowns. We want Covid'
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  5645.  @mudvayne2311  You can like any chant you wish even if it doesn't match the facts. That is freedom of a sort.
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  5646. It's not insoluble. They need some young immigrants to expand the economy and balance out the age imbalance.
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  5647.  @redco9895  Still, the Brits are spending their money there and living on British pensions. The Moroccans and South Americans will pay tax to pay for Spanish pensioners' pensions, if they can get an education and find jobs (perhaps those that Spaniards don't want to do) though some will create jobs via restaurant businesses. Benefit payments may be seen as a short term investment in the future workforce.
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  5648.  @redco9895  So why does this video suggest that there are not enough young people in Spain to support the increasing number of retired people? Perhaps you should reply to the video host on that. That's enough from me to you now, as I see you have no manners.
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  5649.  @redco9895  I'm not a Brexiteer. Whatever gave you that idea?
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  5650. I thought you were an American as your English is so good and your accent is American. I fear Trump and Musk are trying to make it impossible for anyone to go after them.
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  5651. They want an election date after the EU meeting on 17 or 18 October or maybe in November, anyway when it's clear that there isn't going to be a deal. In an election before that, Boris can still bluff that he wants a deal and is doing something about it. That may go down well with the voters. He also suggests that leaving with no deal will not be a problem. If there's an election in November after we drop out, people will have had some time to realise what the consequences are. If he really doesn't want us to drop our without a deal, he will have had to negotiate and extension by the end of October - something he said he'd never do. Either way he will be exposed.
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  5652. Oh no one's allowed to criticise that clown, are they?
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  5653.  @williamj.dovejr.8613  Why do people think so highly of Trump? He's obviously a crook who wants power for his own benefit and doesn't care at all about democracy, as he admires all the dictators of the world.
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  5654. You aren't paying him to give us his opinions. His opinions were given in his own time and not through the BBC. He's not a political journalist for the BBC so there's no conflict of interest. The BBC has not banned even political pundits like Andrew Neil from giving their political opinions outside the BBC as Andrew Neil was editor of the right wing magazine The Spectator at the same time as he worked for the BBC. It's hypocrisy by the BBC
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  5655. @kateebot it's bothered in English too. Catherine Tate's speech in this is London slang (chav)
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  5656. Why isn't Trump in jail already? Evidence of sedition is plentiful. This is a man who incites violence against others but cries and begs for mercy in court. Double standards or what? He's also a callous user of people who believe in him
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  5657. There's a difference in pronunciation between woman and women. Women is pronounced wimmin.
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  5658. The Scandinavian countries look after their people better though, because they've decided to share the proceeds of capitalism more fairly, so there's not such a massive gap between the wealthiest and least wealthy in society.
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  5659. He was a 'guarantor' who 'guarantees' the loan.
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  5660. Lord Rochester in The Libertine was missed
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  5661. Rightist voters now pay the price.
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  5662.  @tonyves  The price for Brexit and the price for corruption and the price of wasteful Covid spending, assuming rightists are consumers and tax payers. I don't know the price of Brexit. Perhaps someone will cost the loss of trade, the damage to British industry and the price of the extra bureaucracy, but the cost of test and trace, was £37bn of contracts to supporters without competitive tendering (which rules out valid UK businesses) and where the law was broken by not publishing those contracts within 30 days - still not published at this time either. The test and trace service was assessed to have not shown evidence of effectiveness or value for money. £100bn set aside for bi-weekly tests that are only 50% accurate, so pretty useless. Might as well toss a coin. Still, perhaps you don't really mind or are totally unaware, since you needed to ask the question.
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  5663. The public keeps voting in the same w*nkers - pardon my french.
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  5664. Rats can see the ship will sink.
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  5665.  @dilwich  They report what the scientists are saying and what the government says. They don't invent things themselves. Also just because people don't like what they hear or what the scientists say, doesn't mean it's lies.
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  5666.  @adammforrester-smith2518  I don't need to be 'helped' by conspiracy theorists.
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  5667.  @dilwich  You say that, but you've no evidence other than believing what you want to believe.
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  5668.  @dilwich  What evidence?
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  5669.  @dilwich  I'm not the one making the allegation and your allegation is not precise enough to research. Your the one that needs to prove your allegation. Main stream media have reputations to lose. Conspiracy sites don't. They pop up all over the place.
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  5670.  @dilwich  I'm fully vaccinated. That gives some peace of mind I must say. So long.
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  5671. @bonnieo910  I would not disagree with that. Braverman has certainly broken the law or endorsed breaking the law in the past and as a democracy we have the right to free speech and to demonstrate peacefully. Otherwise the police will arrest people but they are not there to do the biased or non legal bidding of Braverman.
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  5672.  @bonnieo910  Good, because what she tries to do disregards the law. If she wants to change the law let her try that by getting wider support. We do not live in a dictatorship nor do we want to.
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  5673. On 17 November, the editor of the Daily Mail, Geordie Greig was replaced with someone more supportive of Boris Johnson.
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  5674. But the woman who said 'there may never be a vaccine' also said 'the results are encouraging'. So all she is saying is that they are hopeful but not to bank on a vaccine yet. It's too early to be sure.
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  5675.  @cuddlymike  Scientific rigour does not go out of the window.
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  5676.  @cuddlymike  None of them have finished being tested yet. They are not yet on the market for that reason.
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  5677.  @cuddlymike  Oh I didn't know manufacturers been made exempt from being sued for damages. I'll have to look into things a bit more. To be honest I'm never the first to rush into having a vaccine. I wait to see how things are going first, once it's released. What does it mean if the virus has not been isolated? Does that just mean the vaccine might not work or some other adverse situation? I've been vaccinated for many things over the years and never had any problem.
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  5678. No, but Israel is stealing land that does not belong to them.
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  5679. They were both born in England but Hunt has far more experience.
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  5680.  @pauldunne5230  Yes I've looked into it. I don't think you have.
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  5681.  @pauldunne5230  but Boris agreed to this last year when he signed the withdrawal agreement. It's nothing new. The EU aren't controlling our trade, but if we are leaving the EU there has to be customs between the UK and the EU otherwise it's just leaving a backdoor for smugglers to bring goods into the EU that may not meet their standards and or pay their tariffs, thereby undermining the single market.
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  5682. What kind of factory?
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  5683. I wanted to find out who. At one time some national newspapers used to publish details results for every constituency but alas no more it seems.
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  5684. MSM newspapers know that sensationalism sells their media. However there is a real problem with lack of lorry drivers which was entirely predictable, was exacerbated by Brexit, and which the government has ignored for a long time. In fact they are now blaming the guy in the trucking industry who kept warning them about it. The government is totally inept. They are not schooled to run a modern economy but to be overlords in an Empire that no longer exists.
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  5685.  @allanstack7016  That's the system. You don't have a choice. You might as well say English law is not your law. If you live in England it is..
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  5686. You've been persuaded of that, but I don't think Labour would have wasted billions on contracts and payments to their friends and supporters which turned out to be lining their pockets without delivering any value to taxpayers. I don't think Labour would have been intending to slowly and sneakily reduce people's civil and human rights. They would have been focusing on people's needs, particularly housing, NHS waiting lists, access to GPs, and raising windfall taxes on bloated energy companies to bring down energy costs.
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  5687. It's a patriarchal society and monarchy at this point was all powerful.
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  5688.  @jackmatthew1880  I don't follow your reasoning. Cromwell executed Henry's orders. What restrictions did Henry have? Maybe some existing since the time of Magna Carta but those mainly benefited the Barons. Henry did have to bring people to trial but no one dared acquit someone if Henry was against them.
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  5689. A twit takes over twitter.
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  5690. Starting a sentence with 'so'. No. Tory Party members love a giveaway. Truss obviously believes they are bribable and many of them are too bigoted to vote for Sunak
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  5691. I believe that Hedge fund closed down after first moving to Dublin following Brexit.
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  5692. Zelensky doesn't want to give away any of Ukraine. I wonder if the ones he regards as traitors are more inclined to compromise on that in order to end the war. A difference of opinion in how to end the war, or maybe Russia has approached these people saying they would end the war if Zelensky was removed. Since Russians lie a lot, who knows whether anything they say, or offer, can be trusted. They are a gangster regime, and therefore not worthy to run a democratic country.
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  5693. That's probably because they have enough good quality PPE. They saved it for themselves. To be honest though countries that are more densely populated with more cities are more likely to have higher death rates and in Turkey they are probably more likely to care for older family members at home rather than place them in care homes.
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  5694.  @maquacr7014  Where did you find that out?
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  5695.  @soniaalvarez1584  Does that give them the right to come back and steal other people's land beyond the land they were given by Britain in 1948? I think not
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  5696. Don't distract. That's Trump's strategy. What about this issue?
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  5697.  @TheLemonadedrinker  Agreed. However I'm sure there are plenty of crawlers to be found or people who see eye to eye with Boris. They will also be useful scapegoats if things go wrong and highly 'replaceable'.
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  5698. *woman
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  5699.  @m0vnt41n5  *affected
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  5700. *have gone (grammatical English)
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  5701. This is what exploitation looks like.
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  5702. That's typical of the style of jewellery she wears.
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  5703.  @thomasrobert4654  It's not the doctors destroying it. They accepted it long ago, but you do know that GPs are small business people contracted to work for the NHS don't you? It has always been that way since the creation of the NHS.
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  5704. When Piers Morgan is accused of being a leftist, you know the world's gone topsy turvey.
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  5705.  @stuartcorbett4902  Seriously stop reading fake news on Twitter. Go to a decent proper fact checking source for your information. The excess deaths figure that is used as corroboration for Covid death figures is taken from registered deaths and shows the rate of death above the average for the time of year, the excess undoubtedly caused by the Covid virus. This rate suggests that deaths from the Covid virus are under-reported rather than over reported.
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  5706.  @stuartcorbett4902  Obviously the rate of Covid deaths have been reduced by the lockdowns and other stratagems that countries have used to reduce the spread of the virus. We are not over the pandemic yet though so the figures will keep going up for some time. Flu normally affects people worst in the Winter months but Covid has affected Europe most in the Spring season and will continue for some time to come. Your first sentence needs correcting as it's not grammatical English and it doesn't make sense.
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  5707.  @stuartcorbett4902  'Research' is too broad a term. What are you suggesting? I've had my flu vaccine last Autumn as usual but it won't protect me against Covid 19.
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  5708. @gjaegreag I think it's more to do with whether there are reciprocal pension arrangements with those countries.
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  5709.  @rapid8748  It doesn't matter what the source of the document is. The Tories have never denied that it's a genuine document, (and why won't Boris publish the report on Russian interference in British politics if he's concerned about it). Boris and the Americans may deny interest in selling off the NHS to the British public in an election but it's not what the Americans are saying to American audiences. Anyway you have to understand that the NHS and the care system is not a thing that will be sold off lock stock and barrel. The Tories will keep the NHS brand and keep it free at the point of use in the hope that the public won't notice that more and more services provided are being taken over by private companies via contracting systems. Greater privatisation of services is provided for in the Health and Social Care Act of 2012 which the Tories introduced, if you read that. Talk to any healthcare workers. Jeremy Hunt, the longtime Tory Secretary of State for Health, wrote a policy paper advocating privatisation of the health service before he was appointed to that post. Not only that, but while in office he sneakily tried to reformat funding bodies so that they matched US ones to make it easier for private firms to take over the funding decisions in the NHS. This he tried to sneak through in a Statutory Instrument (SI). SIs are normally used for finance matters and are passed through Parliament without debate. Fortunately his sneaky scheme was noticed. You can't trust Boris and Trump. They are liars with form and Boris is already presiding over a NHS whose services are more privatised than ever before. If Trump extends drug patents, as he intends to, the NHS will have to pay much higher prices for drugs for longer before they become 'generic' and therefore cheaper to buy. He will winkle more money out of the NHS in one way or another, by hook or by crook (and he's the crook).
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  5710. We've yet to see. Trump was made President by the electoral college in spite of getting 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton. The USA electorate voted Trump out at the next election. The coup in the USA would have succeeded if Mike Pence had left the Capitol on the day of the riots, without completing the process of transfer of power to Biden. The UK voters gave Johnson a massive majority (80 seat majority) at the last election. Boris refuses to go no matter what rules he breaks and how many lies he tells. Will his party be able to get him out before the next election? It seems inevitable but we shall see.
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  5711. How so? There have been forest fires in Siberia, California, Australia, Brazil, the UK and other places. No one is making that up.
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  5712.  @md-run  I'm sure it is, as that's what would benefit the USA most.
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  5713.  @ewancarmichael3412  Well I saw quite a few comments about not voting for Labour but wanting to set up new parties or vote for the Greens or never voting Labour again. In a first past the post system that will get us nowhere, unless Labour is being abandoned in order to vote for a party more likely to topple the Tories.
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  5714. I'm sure partners do have influence with PMs behind the scenes. We just don't usually get to hear about it.
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  5715. Where did EII's English heritage come from since her mother was Scottish (born in Scotland), although it's said that the Bowes Lyon's ancestral line does not include ethnic Scottish blood? I saw a programme that indicated that Prince William has some Indian ancestry through his mother's side though it probably would not reach your 2% threshold.
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  5716. Isn't the blind spot because Russia is heavily invested in Trump businesses and Trump admires a strong, aggressive, dictatorial leader like Putin? Trump would like to be the same if he could get away with it.
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  5717. People will take any old dangerous drug but are scared of the Covid vaccine. Where's the logic?
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  5718. Stop using youtube to request criminal fraud
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  5719. Can you now do Jeremy Corbyn in Somerset? I love the way Jacob Rees Mogg patronises them at the bingo. JRM isn't going to change their support by 'putting across Tory messages'. The Tories will have to stump up cash, and lots of it, for investment in the North for a start, to begin to undo the damage they've done over the years.
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  5720. I wonder if some of those masked Nazis were among those who attacked the cops on Jan 6th.
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  5721. He looks like a mafioso.
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  5722.  @liscatcat8756  No. virus = illness.
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  5723.  Sean lewis  I know enough people who have had it to know it's not scam.
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  5724. See at 1:33, Nadine Dorries puts her head on the shoulder of the man next to her.
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  5725. I doubt that's true. They probably just don't like ignorance and racism. Never doubt that the Tories don't have your interests at heart. They just want your vote so they can carry on enriching themselves at your expense.
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  5726. As free as the Taliban will allow it to be.
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  5727. The slurring and tongue thing may be the side effect of some drug e.g. a prescription drug. For instance, slurring could be from a dry mouth that makes it difficult to speak. Anti-depressants? tranquillizers?
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  5728.  @Ziggy_Moonglow  If they do the same thing they did before the same problems will occur again. I assume they've learned their lesson and know that, but it doesn't matter whether I'm right or wrong does it? I'm only a person who made a comment.
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  5729.  @paulmartyn9028  Targets for what? Targets for crime or targets for dispossession?
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  5730. I had read that social distancing was based on the distance viruses could travel via a sneeze.
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  5731. The Empire ended years ago. All empires do end eventually. You can't rely on exploiting other countries for ever.
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  5732.  @ioanpena  Only by consent. They can vote for independence from the UK in referendums. Just because they've voted to stay previously, doesn't mean they will still vote to stay in the UK after a hard Brexit.
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  5733. You'd have to add the numbers dying from Covid at home also.
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  5734. A place that sells chips (fries to you).
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  5735. There have been people from around the world in the past but they go to the Cenotaph in London rather than Wolverhampton.
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  5736. Yeah. You get a sore arm for a couple of days but that's common with vaccinations.
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  5737. Hardly. This is his third term now.
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  5738. What good will that do? China has at least got the virus under control now and to do that they shut down the economy and stopped making stuff anyway, so there won't be so much for you to buy from them even if you wanted to.
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  5739. Countries in Africa probably don't have the infrastructure to collect info accurately. I've just seen a news item on Somalia which has quite a low number of cases officially but the growing cemeteries tell a different story. Most people prefer to die or be ill at home rather than go to hospital. The hospitals are doing their best but the one featured didn't have any ventilators.
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  5740.  @michaelochido3244  For which countries?
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  5741. Because the medics recommend it. Covid immunity, from having had the disease, is not thought to last for more than 6 months. 2 doses of the vaccine give longer lasting and maximum protection. He probably also wants to reassure those scared of having the vaccine.
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  5742. I'm not surprising the White House of freaking out because do they follow the orders of their boss, Musk, their President who is hands off with Trump, or the judges who have ruled Musk's actions illegal?
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  5743.  @CORNISHDUDE  Oh for pity's sake!
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  5744.  @walterguerson4265  Are you a troll or have you had a sense of humour bypass? This is more poking fun at the Trumps, and at British politicians Theresa May and Boris Johnson, than it is at Merkel.
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  5745. The vaccine does seem to reduce the seriousness of the illness and the risk of death. Since large numbers of the population have been vaccinated, there have been fewer deaths and hospital admissions in the vaccinated population. Most of the hospital admissions and deaths are among the unvaccinated.
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  5746.  @PrinceCbass  Not true. You can find a video on the autopsies of patients who died from Covid and the consistent but different symptoms from other diseases that it can cause. Generalised blood clotting and attacks on all organs but especially the lungs, changing the lungs. Also what about all those sceptics who were healthy and not old who died after getting Covid, without ever believing in it? Sad.
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  5747.  @PrinceCbass  1) Testing is a necessary public health measure in those circumstances and governments have a responsibility to protect public health. For instance, you would not expect there to be no food standards would you, so that the public was at risk of illness from contaminated food? Food producers are required to meet certain hygiene standards for the sake of public health. 2) You cannot know all of the risks or measures people are taking in any one country or state, compared to others, by your impressions from visits. That's not scientific but I'd be interested to know which countries/states you are referring to.
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  5748.  @PrinceCbass  I can't comment on this as I don't have the technical knowledge. I haven't had any Covid tests except before hospital stays and I don't know what type of test it was except that it was a swab from throat and nose. For hospital outpatient visits they just scan with a non contact thermometer. I'm referring to the UK.
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  5749.  @edibleresource7753  But not what he said ' that he (Corbyn) did not underestimate the British people but many British people were worried that Boris overestimated himself'.
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  5750. It's a rictus smile. He's not really enjoying the experience but tries to pretend it's not affecting him.
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  5751. Did the driver fall asleep at the wheel? He drove straight into the back of the truck before his own tanker exploded. The truck behind the tanker seemed slow to back off.
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  5752. As Shakespeare said; 'Use every man after his desert, and who shall scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity' and as the bible said. 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone'. In any case she didn't steal them. She just inherited them.
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  5753.  @MarvinChenFantasy  You can't inherit a crime. No one has ever been accused or convicted of a crime by 'inheriting' it. You have to be the committer of the crime.
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  5754.  @richardturner5703 ' Never actually check a fact' seems to be the motto of most ignorant comment on here.
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  5755.  @richardturner5703  They've since said they've checked him out and it was a mistake that he was on the 'no fly list'. Do keep up.
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  5756.  @andyetheridge  I've no idea what a terp is.
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  5757.  @ragnarironspear1791  There are videos of police sending other British people back to their homes as well but I suppose Covid 19 is always a good excuse for parading your prejudices.
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  5758. The Titchfield Thunderbolt is not 'cobblers'. Anyway the licence doesn't just pay for TV it pays for news and radio, and iplayer and the pleasure of watching programmes without adverts every few minutes.
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  5759. I hate to say it but Poland is only welcoming of white Christian refugees and most Ukrainians are lucky to fit that category.
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  5760. Many Rees Mogg videos...... Rees Mogg visits X, Y & Z with the same closed mindset and not much knowledge.
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  5761.  @festo8885  Bully for you. I'm all right Jack then, and the devil take the hindmost, eh?
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  5762. Fun fact. Red hair is thought to have come from the Neanderthals who interbred with our ancestors. Many of us have a little bit of Neanderthal DNA.
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  5763.  @Pal.Cockrum  Fool. Any American foodstuffs sold in the EU, (including the UK while we are part of the EU) have to meet EU standards but not so if we have a hard Brexit. This is an example of the standards that Americans get https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/17/health/baby-foods-arsenic-lead-toxic-metals-wellness/index.html I could post loads more types of low standards but you can google them yourself.
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  5764.  @Pal.Cockrum  If your comment is aimed at me, you can see where the info is coming from. On what's happening to workers rights it comes from legal documents drafted by Boris's government. On baby foods it comes from CNN who are highlighting an investigative report that confirms the result of an earlier FDA report (Food and Drug Administration in the USA - a government agency) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24du25osgRY&list=LLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=2&t=2s https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/17/health/baby-foods-arsenic-lead-toxic-metals-wellness/index.html
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  5765.  @gregorysmith7308  I read the article and if you read it all, it also comes from rice which, more than any other crop picks up arsenic from the soil but there are other heavy metals in the baby food also e.g. cadmium. Since the USA allows many more chemicals to be used in farming than are allowed in the EU, plants will be at higher risk of absorbing stuff. It doesn't seem as though the USA is intending to do anything to improve matters or make baby food safer. It's typical to load all the responsibility onto consumers to avoid this that and the other. Until this study, I doubt there were any warnings about this and I bet there are none now. Big corporations control the US government.
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  5766.  @Pal.Cockrum  The horsemeat scandal was quickly brought under control when discovered and vCJD originated in Britain but was also tackled once discovered. The EU banned British beef. There's a difference between breaking the rules (illegal) and not much in the way of rules (allowing for all sorts of risky practices to go on quite legally, often without the consumer's knowledge)
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  5767.  @mrmagoo-i2l  You don't seem to realise that after a hard Brexit, UK farmers will only be able to compete in price terms with farm produce from the USA and elsewhere if they lower their costs by dropping their standards in terms of chemical usage and animal welfare. Boris won't stop them. He wants deregulation so you will no longer be able to rely on UK produce being of good standards.
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  5768.  @mariogmajner6549  I agree with you that most Brexiters are maybe beyond help, but when the scales start to fall from their eyes as Boris betrays their trust, they may remember some of this.
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  5769.  @Pal.Cockrum  As I said, there's a difference between breaking rules for which offenders can be prosecuted and not having any rules to protect people in the first place.
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  5770.  @wozzer3wa  He gives his interpretation of what things signify but he always applies logic. He's not making up what the withdrawal agreement says (or omits) and he's not making up the wording of the draft Bill currently going through Parliament. I'm sure you could google those and confirm it.
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  5771.  @Pal.Cockrum  You didn't read an earlier comment it seems. The CNN report confirmed what a government body, the FDA, had also found (FDA = Food and Drug Administration.
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  5772.  @wozzer3wa  Nope. You can google for yourselves to find out whether I make things up or not - if you can be bothered.
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  5773.  @reissjarvis9523  Not yet. He believes in deregulation in general, and he's going for a hard Brexit it seems which means he doesn't have to keep to EU food standards. He placed workers rights and the environment in the non mandatory part of the withdrawal agreement which means he can drop them. He's not included them in his withdrawal Bill (currently going through Parliament) and economic pressures of a hard Brexit will force farmers to drop standards to survive against cheap imports from countries with lower costs and standards. I don't see Boris regulating to keep the standards and he will have to drop them to get any deal with Trump. Right wing Tory ideology means they believe the market will take care of everything and the government should not interfere with it by regulating - they believe in 'small government' and consumers being responsible for their own choices. Of course the poor won't have as much choice as the wealthy as they'll only be able to afford cheap food.
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  5774. Since Taliban were also killed by IS I hope the Taliban will get rid of IS from Afghanistan.
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  5775. With an 80 seat majority he's not going to shift is he?
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  5776. The title is inaccurate. I don't think schools tell children that they are born in the wrong body. That feeling comes from some children themselves.
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  5777.  @anomalocaris2593  O.K thanks for explaining. I'm not well versed in millennialspeak.
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  5778. I'm willing to bet you've never been a real centurion. It's all about play acting isn't it? Nothing to get worked up about. It is a great watch and you'll forget about the casting once you get absorbed in the story, I'm sure.
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  5779. ? The Reform party sabotaging itself? That figures. They are not too bright apart from anything else.
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  5780. Brexit finally getting done and Boris finally doing you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24du25osgRY
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  5781. Strangely the last bird to be caught in the video was just drowned and left in the water. Do they just kill when they are not hungry or is it that they don't like their birds too wet?
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  5782. Bye Bye.
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  5783. That'll tell them. It will tell them they can ignore you. Imperfect as it might seem, voting is the only lever we have and people struggled for centuries to get it.
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  5784.  @pa5287  That is the Tory lie to stop people voting for anyone else. Voting is the only lever we have and people struggled for centuries to get it.
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  5785.  @mrwhitestone7461  Why not vote for The Greens or there will be some independents standing with different views from the main parties. They never get many votes but its better to vote than not.
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  5786.  @pa5287  If enough people who think like you vote, yes, it can make a difference. You have to change the government to get real change because changing one or 2 people at local by-elections is not enough to change the political direction of a government though maybe it will make them crap themselves enough to change some things, but the Tories are largely hidebound by their ideology. Anyway read the parties' manifestos before an general election, next time, to see what they propose. A lot of the anti-democratic stuff being done by the Conservatives was actually stated in their manifesto though they wrapped it in the kind of language that made it sound like it might be a good thing.
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  5787. Yes, well he has the day job to do.
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  5788. I think that's largely an American view of how a cat should live. I've always thought it's a bit cruel not to let a cat experience the great outdoors. I had 2 males (brothers) that loved that. Now we have a female. She's not so adventurous and does not go beyond our garden.
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  5789. I don't like ugly modern buildings but I have to say that post war buildings were built cheaply because there was a lot of wartime bomb damage to repair at a time when Britain was bankrupt and the intentions were good, to give people who'd lived in pre-war slums a warm place to live with indoor bathrooms. There's less excuse now for ugly buildings. Modern planning laws (relaxation of, or lack of enforcement of) must bear more of the blame. My favourite houses are Georgian ones - the space, the light, the symmetry, the materials, the decor, the domestic comfort. In modern times there were some very fine houses built in the 1930s but they weren't affordable by most people. Don't forget that in medieval times most people lived in muddy insanitary and cramped conditions. London architecture did not survive the plague and the great fire. The architecture you refer to to was built after the great fire I'd love to have seen and experienced medieval London but when most of it burned down in the great fire in 1666, London ceased to suffer from the plague and the rebuilt London was also beautiful in a different way and more solid. One problem in London is that tall buildings are often built with gulf oil money by nations that have different architectural tastes and no feeling for the traditional beauty of English style architecture that already exists there. Tower blocks are not suitable for families to live in and most of them will eventually lose value and be a 'hard sell' but by then the developers will have walked off with their profits and the environment will have been uglified.
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  5790. *poll
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  5791.  @suemarshall6185  Do leavers know what WTO entails and the potential effects it will have on them? It doesn't take much to look it up but I'm guessing not many have bothered.
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  5792. I think that poll result indicates someone has been smoking illegal substances.
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  5793. It's not just about the swearing. They are both in the same party - both meant to be on the same side, and he revealed to all the opposition parties how little he values his own colleague. How would you get on working with someone, who'd just done that to you?
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  5794.  @MaelstromTranquil  As a democratic representative he should accept answering questions as a normal part of being accountable, and if he can't cope with that without a hostile reaction, it suggests he's not a good representative or he's got something to hide. You shouldn't have people swearing at you on a daily basis, but thankfully they are not swearing at you as someone in an official position. If a doctor or a police officer started swearing about you just because you were asking some questions, and suggesting that something was 'wrong with you' for doing that, maybe you'd feel differently. Would you get away with swearing back at the customers?
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  5795. Do you understand the economics of hard Brexit and how it will affect you? It won't affect the likes of rich people like the Rees Moggs.
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  5796.  @mick3ism  People seem to think we can go back to the way things were before the EU but the world has changed since then and a hard Brexit will be bad for us. It can take years to make deals but we'll lose the deals we have as part of the EU from day one of a hard Brexit. The US will want deals solely on their terms and they know we need a deal more than they do. Other big countries like Russia and China are not our friends and don't let in many foreign exports. Russia would want the lifting of sanctions before a deal and will then think they can get away with anything. Asian countries will trade with each other and the only thing India wants from us is visas. Canada doesn't want a deal with us if we have no deal with the EU and other distant countries can't make up for loss of trade with the big block on our doorstep (the EU).No country in the world trades solely on WTO terms. It's like the 4th division of trading.80% of our exports are in services and 49% of those are with the EU. We'll lose the 'passport' for services exports on day 1 of a hard Brexit and the EU will have a tariff of as much as 40% on some of our goods without a deal in place. Here's a video about Canada denying us a deal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb2FzeEjHeo&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=2&t=258shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?
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  5797. Cats don't bond with a single partner. More likely a territorial dispute.
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  5798. It's a critique of communism not socialism. Orwell himself was always a socialist.
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  5799. Not at all. Labour is implementing the recommendations of the previous enquiry that the Tories ignored for years while they were in office. They now pretend to care. Lol.
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  5800. He's wilfully ignorant.
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  5801.  @ENGLISHMURPHY  Starmer has confirmed that they won't be letting violent prisoners out early.
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  5802. Anaemic economic growth because of Brexit. It's become too difficult and expensive to export to the EU. As for 'fewer layers of management in the NHS' (Truss), the Tories always say that but it was they who created the need for more of them them with the introduction of complex finance systems (contracting, contract compilation, contract monitoring and contract managing, contracting out to the private sector), cuts in bed numbers, high staff vacancies, cuts in funding to nurse training, and also because the finances are inadequate and NHS debt is high and it has to be carefully and rigorously managed, and the creation of lots of quangos via the 2012 Health and Social Care Act when they pushed lots of Department of Health functions out to NHS quangos in order to avoid Ministerial responsibility for much of NHS performance..
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  5803. The words 'Taliban' and 'lark' together? There's an oxymoron for you.
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  5804. We can only know what's happening by comparing figures and looking at the trajectory. If the figures aren't reliable we're in the dark about the progress of this pandemic and whether our actions are having the desired effect. I don't trust the USA figures either. They have the highest number of recorded cases. Trump flip flops on policy and introduces control measures only when forced to, and yet the deaths declared seem unusually low compared to other countries https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ This UK government has manipulated statistics for political purposes more than any other I can remember. I don't see them allowing an Inquiry into the handling of this pandemic.
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  5805. So he didn't know that what he does as a lawmaker has consequences. He should not be in office.
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  5806.  @electric_sand  I don't play dirty tricks. Nor do I always have to be right.
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  5807.  @shaunwilson3059  Agreed. My comment wasn't wholly serious.
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  5808.  @mrn8645  Just misandry what?
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  5809.  @crm9825  We know that but Johnson has never admitted it.
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  5810. The disturbing thing is the number of idiots loudly cheering De Santis. Petty revenge and censorship is his instinct. Imagine De Santis's ideal state where it was illegal to criticise him or vote against him.
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  5811. It's Mum in Britain not Mom.- but he is meant to be saying Ma'am, short for Madam. He just needed to lengthen the vowel sound.
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  5812. Gorbachev is very diplomatic and circumspect here. Putin took everything on himself alright, including the state assets though he did share some with his cronies. It would have been interesting to ask Gorbachev about Chernobyl and what he thought of the TV series on that, in which his character is portrayed.
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  5813. The Freedom of the City of York is bestowed by the City. The Sussex titles were bestowed by the Queen, not by Sussex.
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  5814. Republicans don't seem at all concerned by Trump's misdemeanors. Their only defence is to try and throw some dirt at Joe Biden.
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  5815.  @MOGGS1942  If he has investments, he will benefit from the removal of financial regulations that a hard Brexit would bring and he would be freer to invest in tax havens. The wealthy will not suffer from hard Brexit in the way that poorer people will.
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  5816.  @MOGGS1942  But the Queen's not trying to get the nation to 'self harm' by leaving the EU. The wealthy never suffer, true, but some have a care for the welfare of others. Farage does not.
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  5817. Only about 40-50% of patients going into intensive care survive.
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  5818.  @garsm2290  If he is, he's probably sitting on his own wondering where everyone is.
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  5819. No, he seems to be a woman hater and a Russian stooge instead
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  5820. Yes big corporations will always want to move to the countries that have the most exploitable workforce but we don't have to buy goods from them if we don't like that.
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  5821. The children of those who escaped poverty in decades gone by are now being pushed back into poverty.
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  5822. Rubbish English and rubbish statement
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  5823. What's the point?
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  5824. Doublespeak and doublethink. George Orwell got it right.
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  5825. It's the will of the people to damage their own futures and it hasn't been implemented yet. Woe to the politicians who are not ensuring this.
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  5826. Get it from the mouth of Trump himself. He tells people he will do these things and somehow they don't believe him or disregard it.
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  5827.  @Eman_Puedama Some of those that didn't ended up in hospital unfortunately and some of those didn't leave.
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  5828. They want to fire people to save money so they have enough financial headroom to make tax cuts for the wealthy and maybe cut the deficit but I think the former is more important to them.
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  5829. Doesn't this overlook the problem that if it stops spinning before reverse spinning, there would be no gravity while it was still?
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  5830.  @curtissmith2679  What you believe is neither here nor there. What does the science say?
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  5831.  @xavierlauzac5922  O.K. Thanks.
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  5832. To be fair, Steve Baker seemed to acknowledge them as though they were his fans. Lol.
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  5833. Says someone who can't spell intellect or Rayner.
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  5834.  @AMITKUMAR-nf8in  * didn't have
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  5835. This video could have been more succinct.
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  5836. This slow detailed horror video made my internal organs ache.
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  5837.  @JK-ux9du  He's not playacting except by pretending to want a deal. His agreement is a vehicle for getting no deal. He has pinned his colours to the mast, and the success of his career depends now on him getting a no deal result. That's why the ERG group are backing him and they all stand to benefit from a no deal because WTO trade terms do not include financial regulation, unlike the EU whose tighter financial rules to reduce offshore tax avoidance and money laundering come into effect in January 2020. The Tories are the party of tax avoiders, money launderers and financial speculators, backed and financed by them.
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  5838.  @JK-ux9du  Am I right? Here's some news. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uuTGKcx2G0
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  5839.  @JK-ux9du  Well why did he pull his deal from Parliament when it was being voted through? I don't want to argue with you but he has the weight of the hard Brexiteers of the Tory party, who are his main backers, on his shoulder, and with Boris it's always about his own success in the Tory party rather than any ideological standpoint. Anyway let's wait and see. I think a hard Brexit will be a disaster for Britain and British workers in the long run and even a soft Brexit will be worse than what we have now but I know you disagree. You're probably going to vote for the Brexit party I guess.
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  5840.  @JK-ux9du  Ha Ha. What EXACTLY do you expect to gain? Don't talk in abstract terms about sovereignty etc. What in concrete terms do you expect to gain? Even the hard pro Brexit economist, Patrick Minford, who wants zero tariffs under a hard Brexit admits that will kill British manufacturing and British agriculture and don't forget that would mean we weren't placing tariffs on the EU either (under WTO rules you can't pick and choose different tariffs for different customers for the same goods) but the EU will be placing tariffs on us -over 40% on British lamb and beef. Apart from imposing zero tariffs, the only way to avoid tariffs is to have deals with trading blocks, but those typically take years to negotiate and because other countries have trade deals and we don't, we'll be at a massive disadvantage both in trading and in negotiating trade deals, and we'll immediately lose the 40 or so trade deals we are already in as part of the EU, the second we hard Brexit. We also export a lot in services - over 80% of our exports and about 49% of those go to the EU but these services will lose their 'passport' to the EU the second we hard Brexit. So I hope you've done your homework and are clear where in all this, the average person stands to gain anything. Farage is all sloganising, but fine words butter no parsnips. I forgot to say that Britain has no experienced trade negotiators because all that was done by the EU. They have all the experienced trade negotiators as do other countries with deals and trade deals are very complex things to negotiate because of their comprehensive nature, and we'll be outdone on any negotiations after a hard Brexit by those experienced and skilled trade negotiatiors. If we do decide to put tariffs on our trade with other countries, that will put the prices up for consumers in the UK.
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  5841. It gives the Florida Republicans the opportunity to cheat themselves too, it would seem.
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  5842. Jabber, Name one that doesn't.
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  5843. Emma Preston is a new city having been granted city status in 2002. It does have a cathedral https://www.lep.co.uk/your-lancashire/preston/preston-s-new-cathedral-one-of-only-three-in-the-world-1-8039969
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  5844. Emma, I suppose it doesn't matter which religious denomination has a cathedral. Maybe they got cathedral status because they had been granted city status :-)
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  5845.  Capo di tutti capi  O.K O.K. Boss. I shall keep omerta on that one from now on.
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  5846. What did I do for voters? I held events that spread Covid among them.
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  5847. This is trivial
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  5848. I voted for him and all my friends did too. This investigation is not about voting. It's about the announcement of the opening of the Elizabeth line a day before the local elections.
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  5849.  @jonbaker5990  I don't regret it though. Did you hope either the dim Tory or the even dimmer Lawrence Fox would win? Neither being on the side of the workers. I don't think Lawrence would know what a worker was, but there are lots of them among the voters in London.
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  5850.  @jonbaker5990  Well, I live on a busy road and developed chronic asthma as an adult but it's been a lot better since the congestion zone and the the ultra low emission zones were introduced. I've been able to drop one of my asthma meds. You drive in London but you don't say that you live here. It's people who live here who vote for Mayor. In fact your experience would be worse without these policies because public transport in London is good and more people have been encouraged to use it, reducing traffic on the roads.
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  5851.  @jonbaker5990  No other candidate or party offers to tackle congestion except the Greens. Unfortunately London is a big city that dominates the country economically and wasn't designed with minimising pollution in mind so it's not an easy problem to solve but when electric vehicles become the norm it will get better. A lot of people cycle. I used to, but I was nearly killed on a couple of occasions by lorries overtaking me and swinging into the kerb while still passing me as if I wasn't there. Fortunately on both occasions the kerb. gave way and I could get off the road. I didn't think I'd be lucky a third time. The economy would be more balanced if the Tories had supported manufacturing in Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, but I remember Margaret Thatcher's government saying we didn't need manufacturing, because we could earn our living from financial services which are predominantly situated in London. As for criminal violence that's been increasing around the towns and cities of Britain as poverty increases. That's not to excuse it, but I think it is an underlying cause. The Tories claim to be the party of law and order but they seem to break the law whenever it suits them these days and they were responsible for the cuts in police numbers by 21,000 since 2010.
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  5852. Who says?
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  5853. But GB news uses a distorted version of the British flag and UKIP used a purple and yellow version with a pound sign in the middle. I don't remember a huge outcry against those.
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  5854. No one and nothing can go '10 times faster than the speed of light'. No one can go faster than the speed of light at all.
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  5855. The New Statesman seems to be as stupid as Nadine Dorries. The headline is wrong. It's not that she doesn't know who owns Channel 4 (It is publicly owned). She doesn't know what its funding model is; that it's not taxpayer funded via a license but by private companies via advertising.
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  5856. It never did.
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  5857. That recital was full of feeling. If you didn't see or hear that you maybe need glasses and a hearing aid.
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  5858. Not really academic. Just explaining the plot since you asked.
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  5859. The US doesn't realise it is the bully and it supports other bullies in the world.
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  5860.  @jamesparkinmusic  He's only pretending he knows how to make tea. Notice he doesn't take the tea bag out. In real life he has someone to make tea for him.
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  5861.  @gravemind3590  You must really like tannin.
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  5862. Is this policy aimed at Remainers who don't like what Britain is becoming under Brexit? As for those who are against the existence of the country, is he going to lock up those Scots who want to break away from the UK by voting for Scottish independence.
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  5863. That's because flu kills a lot of vulnerable people every year but Covid 19 is not flu. It's more severe than flu and it's very infectious..
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  5864.  @ZenosOsgorma  That's not an English saying.
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  5865. This will be the UK after Brexit if the Tories get their way.
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  5866. That's part of his shtick as a comedian.
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  5867. Like the bonehead he is. He is gambling on the EU changing their negotiating position which they have always said they won't. Rees Mogg really hopes for a no deal Brexit but I can't somehow see him feeding his kids hormone fed beef but he's happy that it will go to other people's kids. Patrick Minford is a one song singer and he's prepared to sacrifice British manufacturing and industry.
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  5868. A vaccine is a preventative measure. The drug used to treat Covid is an advance but it doesn't save everyone.
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  5869. Why do they all have to suck up?
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  5870. @Chris Clark Scotland has a sensible government.
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  5871. Maybe he fell into a place that was difficult to get to and he was not visible if covered by undergrowth but a sniffer dog would have found him I believe or indicated where he was.
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  5872.  @BMack-p9s  No but from the smell and the nearest safe place for them to stand they could alert handlers to the location without having to go right to it.
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  5873.  @moonshapedabsolution  What a snotty comment about boomers! A much higher percentage of the younger generation went on to tertiary education thanks to the last Labour government whose policy it was. That's why they are generally more informed and better able to analyse things. They are also bearing the brunt of the failures of Tory policies so they are under no illusions.
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  5874. Blaming his staff although Boris overruled their advice and took the final decision? How base!
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  5875. Possibly he did, and was making a joke about it, but it gave her the idea for a story.
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  5876. Can you believe a liar who says he's no liar? If he told the government he had enough PPE at the time when all the newspapers were reporting that care homes didn't have it, that's a lie, and if he told the government that all elderly patients would be tested for Covid before being discharged to care homes, that's not what the guidance on the government website said, so that's a lie. The guidance warned that patients discharged from hospital may have Covid but that care homes were equipped to deal with it (at a time when they were not) I also experienced it in my family. My brother in law had Covid and the hospital wanted to discharge him even though he'd not been tested to check he was clear. They told my sister 'the government has told us to free up beds'. That ties in with what Cummings said hospitals were told.
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  5877. Fiscal responsibility was only a mantra for the Tories. The real agenda was staying in power by whatever means including lies and unfunded bribes that would never materialise.
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  5878. The private sector will give as little as possible for the highest price and profit possible. That's the duty they owe to their shareholders.
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  5879. Both lawyers asked the witness the same questions so it's very repetitive.
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  5880. It does 100% stop you from having to be admitted to hospital from the effects of Covid though.
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  5881.  @russputin6294  Yes but the actual stats so far have shown it to be 100%.
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  5882. It's not news dumbass. It's a comedy show.
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  5883. No, This guy was not elected by the electorate, but only by the majority of the Conservative Party which is a small number nationally.
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  5884.  @keystothekingdom6610  Ah, so internet trolling is now your hobby since ceasing to be the Prime Minister of Australia. I don't think the plan is to say. Politicians know that would be political suicide, but the truth is that a hard Brexit won't get through the Commons as currently constituted. It was the least popular option in the indicative votes. The most popular option was a softer Brexit with some kind of customs union to protect the UK economy and trade. Although it is the most popular option, it would require Labour and Conservatives to vote for it and since our system is very adversarial rather than co-operative, it's not clear whether that will be do-able. It will require compromise on both sides. The extremes of hard Brexit and Remain won't like that option and will vote against it. The House is divided as is the country and no one really knows what kind of Brexit leavers voted for, because they were never asked. They simply voted to leave at a time when the consequences of different types of leaving or leaving at all were not fully known. What is interesting is that some leavers voted on principle and even though they now see that the consequences would destroy their businesses they would still vote the same again on principle. I've seen people interviewed on TV who are like that including a strawberry farmer who knows that he will not be able to get enough foreign workers (or any workers) to pick his strawberries when they are ripe. Indeed he is already struggling to get them in the run up to Brexit.
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  5885.  Derreck Jones  I agree that Labour didn't regulate the banks and the financial sector enough but neither did the Tories before them nor would they have, nor have they regulated the banks effectively since the crash. Blair was a great fan of Thatcher who started all the deregulation and her deregulation it caused an economic boom in the short term in the 1980s. Blair thought this was the way to go. As I said he wasn't really any kind of socialist.
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  5886.  @colonelquickshifter6534  Slogans and wishful thinking are no substitute for looking at the cold hard reality in the light of day.
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  5887.  @mypointofview1111  There is one exception I think. Conservatives have generally become more socially liberal, with the exception of some individuals like Jacob Rees Mogg.
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  5888.  Derreck Jones  Labour introduced them in 1998 up to £1000 per year. I sort of understand why, (even though it was Tony Blair again) because most people going to University were middle class and workers were paying their taxes for it but not benefitting from it as much, so it was seen as fairer to workers to do this, (a more balanced policy) as students would reap the benefits through higher salaries after graduating and could borrow money for the fees, or take part time work while studying. Then came the gig economy which meant that there was downward pressure on pay and conditions and also many professional and public sector jobs, traditionally inhabited by graduates were largely cut or pay held down by later Tory governments (particularly after the economic crash of 2008 but it was happening before too on a less rapid scale), so graduates were no longer so sure of getting well paid jobs and the Coalition Government of Tories and Lib Dems in 2010 raised tutition fees enormously to £9,000 per year (despite Lib Dems promises in the run up to the election, not to do this.) The gig economy is both a product of globalisation of the economy and of the Tories being against seriously regulating it.
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  5889.  @frze5645  You are only looking at the payments but there were gains too in terms of economic growth. You need to weigh up both sides.
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  5890.  @frze5645  Do they? Have they ever been asked about that in light of the consequences of leaving without a treaty and knowing how it will affect them? This isn't about grovelling. It's about protecting the economy and the livelihoods of the people.
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  5891. For indigenous people it's easier to get off the streets because they have access to free public services to help them if they want it.
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  5892. What's wrong with RFK's voice?
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  5893. Someone will make a film about this one day.
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  5894. He wasn't defending Hamas. He condemned the attack on Israel, but he was talking about the context for this long term conflict and the equivalence of the lives of Palestinian and Israeli children. The Palestinians are not interested in Islamic fundamentalism but in having some freedom.
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  5895.  @fivewindow32  Glad to amuse.
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  5896. Yep. They've done that in Swale in Kent and they now have the highest rate of Covid cases in the country. Over 600 per 100,000. Well done Swale.
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  5897.  @davidwhite4874  Cobblers
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  5898.  @davidwhite4874  Heliotrope before Youtube pressed for a name change.
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  5899.  @mazg4707  You can't help people wanting to protect their businesses and wanting their customers to feel safe. You can order things online though so there is some choice. Perhaps someone will set up a venue for the non-vaccinated but they'd have to be monitored afterwards in case they get Covid, so that they don't pass it on.
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  5900. @Dee R I heard the same as you but I also heard that the first dose is always the worst in terms of side effects. After the first dose I was tired for 3 days and had something that felt like a headache without any pain. My husband felt very little. Friends and relatives felt very little. Our second dose is this Saturday coming.
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  5901. @Dee R Sorry to hear that. I hope the second dose is easier for you. I read that the AZ first dose is half the strength of the second, but maybe the second dose doesn't have so much in the way of side effects because the body has already reacted to the first dose. After all, they say these side effects are symptoms of the body's immune system reacting, which is a good thing. Anyway I'll find out more on Saturday and afterwards. My husband and I are getting our vaccinations together (one after the other) so we can look after each other if necessary.
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  5902.  @AndrewSmith-zy9de  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n5YiCRIujo&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=32&t=372s
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  5903. This is why the UK government is full of incompetents. The ones that go to public school (and that's most of the senior ones) are given a lot of confidence and come out thinking they can achieve anything.
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  5904. Lee Anderthal was part of the Tory government that was in power for 14 years.
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  5905. Politics is about who gets what. That takes place even in caves. Politics is part of life.
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  5906.  @katie7513  It is divided as the country is divided. I expect it will get sorted out eventually. It was never going to be easy as we've been in it for 40 years and we have 4 countries in the UK who voted different ways. I think there will be an election soon but not before 31 October (the next Brexit date). What happens between now and 31 October I think is that we'll drop out without a deal on 31 Octoberl or have an extension.
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  5907. Didn't Trump also impose an embargo on Iran?
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  5908.  @ruthbashford3176  The reason for that was that they didn't have enough PPE. 'Hospitals go it alone on coronavirus protective equipment as ...www.telegraph.co.uk › news › 2020/03/29 › hospitals-go-alone-issue-... 29 Mar 2020 - Doctors and nurses should not be forced to treat coronavirus patients ... that the NHS has enough PPE and that any shortages are as a result of ... “It's clear they downgraded the guidance to mask the fact that there isn't enough PPE”. ... Coronavirus: the next 100 days - the future of UK, the economy and our ... '
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  5909.  @ub2bn  In the Spanish flu, the only US city to escape the devastation was San Francisco as they locked down early. However they did get caught by a later wave, after they thought they were safe, as the virus mutated. I agree that earlier protocols such as testing,tracing contacts issuing protective gear and closing borders or checking everyone who came through them might have saved us from lockdown, possibly. I think airplanes carried it around the world very quickly.
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  5910.  @ub2bn  One similarity with the Spanish flu is the way it was spread, via close contact, but via railways and troopships instead of airplanes. We were still involved in WWI.
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  5911.  @derryshore5586  It's not wrong to speculate occasionally as long your starting point is evidence based and as long as you are making it clear that you are speculating.
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  5912. They're all delusional. This should be quite entertaining if it wasn't for the impact it will have on British people.
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  5913.  @nutscratcher7973  Ha ha.
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  5914.  @jazsm5385  She's holding her headphones against one ear and from the expression on her face, she heard the translation o.k.
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  5915. Everyone tried to tell you during the election process.....
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  5916.  @Vince-I-Am  They only care when they think they might lose elections, and they don't like public displays of disaffection it's bad for their image. They like to maintain the fiction that they have public support at all times.
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  5917. If it didn't say he was a historian, I'd think he was a merchant.
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  5918. How are people still supporting conman Trump?
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  5919. Eh?
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  5920. I read that it's a protest because they denied him medical help and prescriptions to deal with his health conditions which were brought on by the earlier poisoning attempt.
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  5921.  @irishandscottish1829  No I don't believe everything I read. I look carefully into the facts. I have done plenty of research. I can tell you're not much of a reader or fact checker from your inability to spell naively. Here is a list of Putin's political opponents or just those investigating corruption who were mysteriously murdered, injured, or imprisoned:  Galina Starovoitova, opposition Duma Deputy killed Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia political party, shot and killed Mikhail Trepashkin jailed after a secret trial on espionage charges. Yuri Shchekochikhin, poisoned, Russian authorities refused to allow an autopsy Mikhail Trepashkin, a former KGB spy imprisoned Mikhail Khodorkovsky, sent to Siberia Nikolai Girenko, a prominent human rights defender, shot dead in his home Paul Klebnikov, editor Russian edition Forbes magazine, shot and killed in Moscow Viktor Yushchenko, anti-Russian candidate for the presidency of the Ukraine, is poisoned by Dioxin. Andrei Kozlov, shot and killed in Moscow Anna Politkovskaya,journalist, shot and killed in Moscow. Paul M. Joyal, shot in street Stanslav Markelov Russian human rights attorney shot in the back of the head Anastasia Barburova, a young journalism student. Shot in the back of the head. Moscow. Boris Nemtsov, Russian opposition politician, shot in the streets of Moscow near the Kemlin 2015 Natalia Estemirova leading Russian human rights journalist and activist,shot and killed Nikolai Glushkov – Russian businessman in the UK who had been given asylum – strangled in England Sergei Skripal – UK former spy – double agent poisoned with Novichok 2018 Yulia Skirpal UK daughter of Sergei Skripal poisoned with Novichok 2018 Sergei Magnitsky – Accountant in USSR who was investigating and exposed tax fraud by the Russian state. Imprisoned and died in prison after being beaten up. Prosecuted by the Russian state even after his death. Maxim Borodin – journalist found dying on the ground outside his 5th floor flat Mikhail Beketov – journalist left brain damaged and later died Oleg Kashin journalist left seriously injured after an assault Tatyana Felgengauer – journalist, stabbed in the neck while at work Alexander Litvinenko. KGB defector. Poisoned with Polonium in London Alexander Perepilichnyy Boris Berezovsky 6 Russian Diplomats who have died since Trump's victory Alexander Kadakin – Russia's ambassador to India Andrey Malanan Senior Russian diplomat in Greece Vitaly Churkin Russian ambassador to the UN Denis Voronenkon Russian politician who had fled to Ukraine Migayas Shirinskiy Russia's ambassador to Sudan Pyotr Verzilov. Pussy Riot Founder. Protested with girlfriend and others at World Cup Final against police persecution while Putin was watching from the stand. Poisoned on 11 Feb 2018 after attending girlfriend's court case. Mother was blocked from seeing him. Doctors refused to explain. Alexei Navalny – opposition leader to Putin. Poisoned on a flight within Russia 20.08.20 In the Crimea UN's June 2018 Crimea report accuses the Russian Federation of grave human rights violations in Ukraine. e.g multiple cases of torture e.g. Ibrahim Mirpochchaev Crimean journalist, abducted with his father and 2 brothers. Beaten for hours, asphyxiated with plastic bags, strangled, repeatedly tasered and violated with a hard probe used to electrocute him internally. Renat Paralamov, Crimean Tartar similar tale, forced confession. Server Karametov, 76 year old with Parkinson's disease prosecuted for holding a placard in support of 70 Crimean tartars being tried for multiple simultaneous peaceful lone demonstrations. Ervin Ibragimov, Tartar leader, dragged off by men in uniform May 2016. Not seen since. Oleg Sentsov, Crimean film maker, sentenced to 20 years in gaol. Olexander Kolchenko, his assistant, sentenced to 10 years. Gennady Afanasayev beaten, suffocated, stripped, threatened with rape and jailed, to force him to testify against Oleg Sentsov. He withdrew his testimony at the trial. Nariman Memediminov, Tartar activist, forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital- a measure described by his lawyer as punitive psychiatry. Vladimir Kara-Murza, journalist and opposition activist alleged he was poisoned twice by Russian security services. He nearly died after suffering kidney failure in 2015 and two years later went into a coma for a week. Pyotr Verzilov, another Kremlin critic, accused Russia's intelligence services of poisoning him in 2018, when he fell ill after a court hearing, losing his sight and ability to speak. He too was treated by Berlin's Charité hospital, and asked the Berlin-based Cinema for Peace Foundation to arrange Mr Navalny's airlift there.
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  5922.  @irishandscottish1829  I don't only look at the MSM but the MSM has more to lose by lying so the best of them don't. Ever heard of 'Private Eye' magazine? Ever heard of independent fact checking sites? I don't know anything about Navalny except that there's been an attempt to poison him, his aim is to highlight corruption in Russia and that's enough for Putin to want to take him down. Human rights aren't respected in Russia which is run by a kleptocracy.
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  5923. DeSantis doesn't understand what education is. It's teaching kids to think for themselves. They are exposed to ideas but not obliged to agree with them.
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  5924. Independent quality control was removed by the Tories when they took it away from building control in local councils and allowed developers to hire their own building inspectors.
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  5925. Generally Corbyn sticks to his points and doesn't get into insulting others in Parliament, but when you see the whole thing, he says something, not out loud, after enduring several minutes of insults from May, along with all the barracking from her side. You have to have the patience of a saint not to retaliate at times. Also MPS often resort to insults when they've got no answer to the questions being raised. She had no answer to his.
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  5926. @evelyncraig7243  the political system in the uk and how it works. Don't deflect with philosophical questions.
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  5927. That's nonsense. It's nothing to do with radiation. Stop swallowing the fake news you are being fed.
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  5928. @Russian Troll so Im told You can sack your Tory MEPs if you wish.
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  5929. He is the Secretary of State for Health. That doesn't seem to be his priority though. Another moron like Hancock.
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  5930. That's right, start up another wave of the pandemic - very clever. The woman saying people with heart conditions can't be tested for Covid 🤦‍♀️
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  5931.  @tahirmahmood6316  Appalled? Applaud means the opposite.
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  5932. Hardly.
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  5933.  @fatfat1877  You don't seem to understand that there are certain consequences of Brexit. It's not the EU choosing to be difficult. It's that you've left a club with privileges. You are not longer paying the fee to be in that club so you no longer get the privileges. I direct you to a very pro hard Brexit economist that Jacob Rees Mogg says 'is always right' - Patrick Minford, and even he admits that a hard Brexit will destroy British manufacturing and agriculture but he does not care about that because other aspects of a hard Brexit matter to him more. We are no longer in the 18th century. World trade is no much more globalised and we no longer have an Empire to exploit. Trade is never entirely free. Countries are protectionist, and want to gain an advantage. There are trade offs and compromise that have to be made. Trade with the rest of the world is no more 'moral' than trade with the EU. Mark Rutte, the Netherlands P.M has said that no one of significance in the EU is now pushing for greater Union. WTO rules mean that if you place tariffs on the EU for certain goods, for instance, you have to place the same tariffs on those goods for all countries you trade with. If you place no tariffs, you have to have no tariffs on those goods for all countries you trade with. If Britain seeks to break the rules, it will be a treated as a pariah in world trade by many countries who won't want to deal with us, and won't feel they have to either. The US and China have to come to some arrangement because they are dependent on each other in many ways. That's not true of a small country like the UK and we'll be even smaller if Scotland goes independent and stays in the EU. You are naive about what's possible - just like Boris who lost so many votes in Parliament when he sought to ignore the rules. He could probably have got his deal through. It had been approved but he pulled it back. Why? Because what he really wants is to crash out with a no deal which would suit his rich backers more. Do you know that financial speculators are making millions and stand to make millions more, after a hard Brexit from betting against UK economic performance. It's a practice called 'shorting'. Also may of his rich tax avoiding backers want to avoid tighter rules being introduced by the EU to prevent offshore tax avoidance and money laundering. There's no benefit to the average or ordinary person from Brexit. The Tories' success is that they've persuaded so many people that there will be some benefit.
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  5934.  @fatfat1877  Yes the EU has trade deals with nations but these deals took many years to agree. We will lose those deals the moment we leave the EU and it will take years to replace them if we ever can. Other countries prefer deals with a big trading block like the EU rather than with small countries outside of the EU, as we will be. When we are competitors of the EU we won't be competing on a level playing field. They will be the existing and preferred deal partner for many nations outside of the EU - not Britain. The EU is protectionist but not against those countries within the EU. It's protectionist against those outside of the EU. That's the whole point of the EU to protect living standards and other standards including human rights and workers rights. (( Treated as a pariah by who? Do you really think foriegn nations will care about a trade conflict between the EU and UK? )) You miss the point here. Nations won't want to deal with a trading partner who doesn't observe any trade rules or agreements and may undercut them or switch trading partners at a moment's notice ((they wont, especially if they have tariff free access to the UK))You miss the point again. If they have free tariff access to the UK, British Industry and Agriculture will die off. Also if they have free tariff access then we'll have to give that to the EU also under WTO rules but the EU will be able to apply tariffs to us under those same rules. If we don't abide by the rules, the EU, the largest consumer trade area on our doorstep will simply not trade with us but will get their imports from elsewhere such as Ireland or Scotland, if Scotland joins the EU after voting for independence, or from elsewhere inside the EU. When the UK car industry fails there will be plenty of German cars for the EU to buy instead.
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  5935. A nice list of those that can be sanctioned.
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  5936. You get what you vote for.
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  5937. Not really. There are human flaws (not any surprise these days) but also a struggle for integrity which is quite heartening.
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  5938.  matt eppich  You're a glutton for punishment.
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  5939. @Uncle Ed and how was that handled?
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  5940. Electing people in government - that's so last year for this government. We're seeing a takeover of government by the vested interests in the city of London without bothering with such niceties as voter support.
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  5941. It should be 'come from' in the title not 'comes from'. 'Comes from' is appropriate if he only had a single idea (idea not ideas). Oh hang on......
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  5942. Dennis King. Question: How can you identify a Trumptard? Answer: They want to lynch anyone who doesn't agree with them.
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  5943. She seems incompetent and naive or ignorant. The promotion video she did for the last leadership contest was riddled with basic errors.
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  5944.  @headlesschicken203  I wasn't looking for scapegoats. I was seeking to know how self reliant China is in coal.
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  5945.  @stevenlawrie7819  I was talking about his circumstances now - not where he was brought up. Anyway if his father, who was an electrical engineer, born in South Shields saved up to buy that house at a time when properties were cheaper, that's a credit to him.
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  5946. He was acting then.
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  5947. Plenty of white people have played ethnic roles in the past. Did you complain about those?
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  5948. No, but I'm not hung up about the ethnicity of actors playing parts.
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  5949. Leighton Young. In drama, there is a suspension of disbelief which can happen if the acting and the production is good. For instance there is loads of historical inaccuracy in Shakespeare's history plays but he can be excused because he does it for the sake of making the drama better. I don't really require a Southern French woman to play Queen Margaret in order to believe her motivations,, and in Shakespeare's time there weren't even any women actors playing the female parts. No one troubled about that. There's no point in getting worked up about such things. It's a drama, not a history or a documentary.
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  5950.  @fidelitysmart9526  Shaun is quite thick and just parrots the government line. He also wasn't above smearing in his opponents with untruths.
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  5951.  @fidelitysmart9526  As I said, Khan increased stop and search (for knives). Shaun Bailey was against that, calling it racist. Then Shaun u turned on that when he stood for Mayor as he realised it would not be a popular view. It was always going to be more difficult to fight knife crime in a period of austerity when the Tories had cut the central grants to local authorities by up to 80% and cut police budgets resulting in a reduction of 20,000 police. As well as that budget cuts resulted in the closure of many projects designed to keep youths off the streets. At the same time youth unemployment increased and many unemployed youths turned to selling drugs as a means of earning a living which brought them into gangs and gang culture.
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  5952.  @fidelitysmart9526  No I mean Shaun Bailey. I actually saw a video on youtube which covered a live session of the GL Assembly with Khan proposing extra stop and search and Bailey essentially inferring that operationally it was racist. I'll try to find it again but it was quite a long time ago. At least a couple of years I'd say. Here's one short clip but it's not the one I'm looking for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X14hnYbd0Tk
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  5953.  @fidelitysmart9526  Here is the record of the London Assembly discussion Jan 18th 2018. I can't find the video at the moment, but in the video you see Bailey questioning Khan. In the record you'll see that Bailey's main concern was that black kids would not be overly targeted in stop and search. https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2018/0171 Here is a relevant extract: Shaun Bailey AM:  Mr Mayor, can you guarantee young black men in London will not be targeted excessively by the police? (Sorry I can't seem to get the full extract into youtube but if you find the above sentence in the text it follows on from there.)
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  5954.  @fidelitysmart9526  Here's the video. See from 29:26 for Bailey's question. Khan says the police will stop and search whoever is suspected of carrying a knife (and since black youngsters are the ones most involved he can't guarantee that searches will not be more on black youths, but he can't say that as Bailey will accuse him of racism. Also it's up to the police at operational level who they check, in line with reasonable suspicion. It's not up to Khan which is another reason why he can't give a guarantee.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0qXLphyI0s
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  5955.  @stacyharrington504  I'm sure the Tories already have plans to sell us off. After all that's what they do with public assets and services every time they're elected. Next time we'll be sold to Trump's USA.
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  5956. But we do get attached to them.
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  5957. That's a strange use of the word 'elite'. Johnson and Cummings are the elite- rich men both who stand to benefit from Brexit but the ordinary person will not benefit. MPs who are not elitist know that, and actually have people's interests at heart. They'll try to save the Turkeys even when the Turkeys vote for Christmas.
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  5958.  Joshua Morgan  We do have a homeland. We're not being pushed out. You don't have to leave. No one is forcing you to do any of those things. I don't think other races enjoy racial purity. There isn't a race where there's no inter-marriage. Foreigners don't want to live in Pakistan because of poverty, intolerance and religious bigotry. The human race has developed over time as we all came from Africa originally but movement, time and distance led to use developing different physical and cultural characteristics. You can't really stop the clock. England was once a Celtic country but then became dominated by Anglo Saxons. The Celtic element didn't completely disappear. Genetically the most Anglo Saxon DNA is in the south of England - about 30%. of people's DNA there is Anglo Saxon but I am optimistic that progress happens over time and that any changes won't mean we lose democracy or our values or our enjoyment of life. I think it's just when it happens fast that people get alarmed because it can seem that the country they grew up in is not the same as the one they live in when they are older. However ask any generation that and they will say the same even if they are not talking about immigration because it wasn't a significant feature at the time.
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  5959.  @henryvkingofenglandandfran7220  The English have been ruled for most of England's existence by rulers of non English ancestry. The English had their lands taken from them by the Normans and other waves of invaders took lands from the Britons before that. Edward wanted the Jews while he could borrow from them but he expelled them as he didn't want to have to pay them back. That tells you about his principles.
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  5960.  @user-zw4mz2gx5w  Why are you sending me this bogus nonsense?
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  5961.  Fakhri Muhamad  I understand that but I disagree with the perspective of his sarcasm.
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  5962.  @henryvkingofenglandandfran7220  I'll grant you Henry II was one quarter English as his grandmother, a Scottish queen, came from England.
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  5963. Greek I think.
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  5964. This is one case where misreporting the statistics won't help. In fact it will be positively dangerous to downplay the stats.
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  5965. Yep. You want a clean wipeout of economic prosperity.
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  5966. * Walliams
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  5967. Only if the country votes in the Lib Dems in a future election - unlikely to happen.
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  5968. The island can't get smaller unless you are referring to coastal erosion.
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  5969.  @erdevon3257  I was interpreting you literally. Of course the island is not getting smaller. I won't be drawn into your argument. The island has diverse roots, celts/Britons, Scots, Picts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Jutes, Vikings, Norman French, Huguenots, Flemish, Jews from Europe, Irish, Polish, Gypsies and many more.
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  5970. The right wing Tories are seen as sharing some of the worst prejudices of the public and when things get even more difficult for people, as they will, people will develop even more hate for their chosen scapegoats, encouraged by the right wing media, and they will want more and more of the Tory poison that is killing them, I fear. The only hope is in younger generations because they are more educated, and don't swallow all the propaganda, though the Tories are trying to clamp down on education now. The younger generations are also the one suffering most (generally) from Tory policies. Many others suffering won't bother voting I fear, or will be deterred by the ID barriers.
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  5971. Would you buy a house from this man?
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  5972. @Alex Nelson So you'd trust him?
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  5973. *quarantine
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  5974. Troops drop not troops drops.
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  5975.  @westleyjohnstone4719  I suppose not, but I don't like to jump to conclusions without fuller information.
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  5976. Who are? The doctors?
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  5977. I detest Donald Trump, but this sort of TV with it's childish insults and name calling shows just how uncouth Putin and the Russian media, under him, is.
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  5978. Why would anyone vote for a useless creep like Mitch McConnell?
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  5979. It's not o.k to call anyone stupid. It's against the rules. MPs must not insult each other but calling someone a 'stupid woman' is seen as an even worse offence because it is seen as sexist in addition, though there's a debate to be had about that - probably only sexist if the intention of the person saying it is sexist. However I'm not surprised he lost patience after what he'd endured beforehand from Theresa May.
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  5980.  @jonbayliss7084  If you watch without preconceptions you can actually see it both ways and even lip readers said it was difficult to tell which it was.
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  5981. Scouse Sean. Hard Brexiteers are the deluded ones, except for the rich ones. They'll be o.k.
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  5982. The theme at the end of 'Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence' which is written by Ryuichi Sakamoto who also played a lead role in the film. Starts softly at about 0:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVxuv9ne32U&t=12s
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  5983. They love the Tories in Dudloy.
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  5984. It's like Trump can't distinguish between what is criminal and what is not criminal. The only thing that matters to him is whether something is self-serving or not.
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  5985. Blinks are cat kisses.
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  5986. @BauerBiwi that's because Germany invested in its own industry and public sector. The U.K did not and sold it all off. Partly the banks fault, and partly poor political decisions.
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  5987. Maybe Musk has a 'condition'.
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  5988. @Daniel Britton And do you have a family like this woman?
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  5989. Turkeys voting for Xmas.
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  5990. She is naming them so that it's known publicly how many can be sanctioned. Otherwise Boris can just sanction a few and pretend he's done the job.
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  5991. The bit at the end was meant to be hammy so the audience knows she is being deliberately manipulative to set up the Duchess of Gloucester.
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  5992. Choice between being late/a longer walk and being dead.
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  5993.  @John-c1n9t  Can't wait. Far fewer lies than Johnson and Sunak themselves alone.
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  5994. Even Republicans refuse to be bullied by Trump. Who is still listening to Trump these days?
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  5995. Too much repetition. Could have been said in less than 13 minutes. Couldn't watch to the end.
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  5996. Etsy have lost any principles they might have originally had. Surely their appeal, in one respect, was that they are not like amazon and had a USP.
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  5997.  @ankhpom9296  Indeed. The simple life but there were plenty of public baths.
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  5998. Cultural Marxism does not exist. It's an invention of the right. They decided it's a thing and they decided to call it that.
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  5999. Some people have been killed by Novichok and some have survived it (.e.g the Skripals). Russia does have a bad track record when it comes to dealing with any opposition. Galina Starovoitova, opposition Duma Deputy killed Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia political party, shot and killed Mikhail Trepashkin jailed after a secret trial on espionage charges. Yuri Shchekochikhin, poisoned, Russian authorities refused to allow an autopsy Mikhail Trepashkin, a former KGB spy imprisoned Mikhail Khodorkovsky, sent to Siberia Nikolai Girenko, a prominent human rights defender, shot dead in his home Paul Klebnikov, editor Russian edition Forbes magazine, shot and killed in Moscow Viktor Yushchenko, anti-Russian candidate for the presidency of the Ukraine, is poisoned by Dioxin. Andrei Kozlov, shot and killed in Moscow Anna Politkovskaya,journalist, shot and killed in Moscow. Paul M. Joyal, shot in street Stanslav Markelov Russian human rights attorney shot in the back of the head Anastasia Barburova, a young journalism student. Shot in the back of the head. Moscow. Boris Nemtsov, Russian opposition politician, shot in the streets of Moscow near the Kemlin 2015 Natalia Estemirova leading Russian human rights journalist and activist,shot and killed Nikolai Glushkov – Russian businessman in the UK who had been given asylum – strangled in England Sergei Skripal – UK former spy – double agent poisoned with Novichok gas 2018 Yulia Skirpal UK daughter of Sergei Skripal poisoned with Novichok gas 2018 Sergei Magnitsky – Accountant in USSR who was investigating and exposed tax fraud by the Russian state. Imprisoned and died in prison after being beaten up. Prosecuted by the Russian state even after his death. Maxim Borodin – journalist found dying on the ground outside his 5th floor flat Mikhail Beketov – journalist left brain damaged and later died Oleg Kashin journalist left seriously injured after an assault Tatyana Felgengauer – journalist, stabbed in the neck while at work Alexander Litvinenko. KGB defector. Poisoned with Polonium in London Alexander Perepilichnyy Boris Berezovsky 6 Russian Diplomats who have died since Trump's victory Alexander Kadakin – Russia's ambassador to India Andrey Malanan Senior Russian diplomat in Greece Vitaly Churkin Russian ambassador to the UN Denis Voronenkon Russian politician who had fled to Ukraine Migayas Shirinskiy Russia's ambassador to Sudan Pyotr Verzilov. Pussy Riot Founder. Protested with girlfriend and others at World Cup Final against police persecution while Putin was watching from the stand. Poisoned on 11 Feb 2018 after attending girlfriend's court case. Mother was blocked from seeing him. Doctors refused to explain. Alexei Navalny – opposition leader to Putin. Poisoned on a flight within Russia 20.08.20 In the Crimea UN's June 2018 Crimea report accuses the Russian Federation of grave human rights violations in Ukraine. e.g multiple cases of torture e.g. Ibrahim Mirpochchaev Crimean journalist, abducted with his father and 2 brothers. Beaten for hours, asphyxiated with plastic bags, strangled, repeatedly tasered and violated with a hard probe used to electrocute him internally. Renat Paralamov, Crimean Tartar similar tale, forced confession. Server Karametov, 76 year old with Parkinson's disease prosecuted for holding a placard in support of 70 Crimean tartars being tried for multiple simultaneous peaceful lone demonstrations. Ervin Ibragimov, Tartar leader, dragged off by men in uniform May 2016. Not seen since. Oleg Sentsov, Crimean film maker, sentenced to 20 years in gaol. Olexander Kolchenko, his assistant, sentenced to 10 years. Gennady Afanasayev beaten, suffocated, stripped, threatened with rape and jailed, to force him to testify against Oleg Sentsov. He withdrew his testimony at the trial. Nariman Memediminov, Tartar activist, forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital- a measure described by his lawyer as punitive psychiatry.
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  6000.  @Imperial_Boltgun  Nope because people can always refuse those things. Slavery is a forced thing.
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  6001. Old Lady? That's Julie Walters.
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  6002. After all that you didn't say what the effects of constricting veins in the kidneys are. I guess it somehow causes kidney disease but you didn't explain the mechanism or connection.
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  6003. Dirty linen aired in public. Though one may be more at fault than the other, no one will come out looking squeaky clean. They should have parted long before these recordings were made.
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  6004. Harassment. The stress was always on the first syllable until everyone suddenly adopted the American pronunciation. Chris Pincher, one of those names that seems apt in the circumstances.
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  6005. Too dim.
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  6006. A trade deficit is not the same as a subsidy. There may be a trade deficit but something is received for all money spent.
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  6007. 'All he's left with is gold and cryptocurrency that might not be enough (to prosecute the war)'? Unfortunately for the world he is also left with nuclear weapons.
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  6008. PSVR Mick_Manchester. You still do live in a democracy, thanks to the Supreme Court.
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  6009. Why does it take so long to count votes? Normal for Arizona, apparently.
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  6010.  @tatersalad76  I know the US is a big country and the results are close. In the UK the election results are in the next day. It's such an anti-climax if you can't work out who has won for a long time after election day.
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  6011. If they pump out Trump's lies knowing they are lies, aren't they heading for the same fate as Fox News - being sued for huge sums? isn't their timing and sense of the Zeitgeist, off?
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  6012. It's disturbing that Trump seems to feel far more comfortable in the company of authoritarian and sometimes criminal leaders than he does in the company of his democratically elected allies. Is it that they are more like him and the way he thinks?
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  6013. Wrong target really. It's the dynamics of capitalism that seeks to put a price on everything and sell it to us. The more rubbish they feed people the more they divide people to distract them from looking at what's the real agenda is - to keep people from realising the power is in the hands of the rich who aim to get ever richer at the expense of those who create the wealth for them.
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  6014.  @Queen-of-Swords  Do you see all sides or are you just looking for agreement with your opinion? I was giving you another side. Of course neither of us are in a position to truly know what went on. That will come out in the wash I guess when the police have finished their investigations.
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  6015. Trump can't seem to cope with anyone who doesn't swallow his lies and kiss his arse.
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  6016. *would have or would've not would of
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  6017. Putin is a fool if he thinks the world can ignore these problems.
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  6018. No. He's only offering to cap the price of croissants.
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  6019. It's Putin who is acting like a fascist.
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  6020. The idea that giving people a vote is 'fanatical' is laughable. It's all demagoguery from Farage and personal attacks,
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  6021.  @DarkDestroyer619  Don't be silly. You don't prove a point by quoting unrealistic extremes. It's about 98% survival rate but that's not the only risk. In the UK over a million survivors (out of over 4 million cases) suffer with Long Covid which is long term permanent damage or long term symptoms. You see what happened in India when it was allowed to get out of control and overwhelm health services. The death rate would be higher here if the seriously ill had not been able to access hospital treatment.
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  6022. Cancel culture and censorship advocate.
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  6023. How do you know they are the worst considering they've not been in power for 13 years, and you don't even know enough to spell their name correctly, It's spelt 'Labour'.
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  6024. *corniest not most corniest
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  6025. Yep. Economic suicide is for us.
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  6026. Nothing to lose.
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  6027. @ I meant in terms of his mind.
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  6028. ):42 Mechanist? Should it be mechanic.
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  6029.  @mathieuleader8601  Yes
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  6030. The NHS is concerned about fake medical advice going around and has placed a link to its advice on many videos on youtube.
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  6031.  @blackbeard6423  He is a role model for it though. The extreme version.
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  6032. Why didn't these couples have conversations about voting before voting day?
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  6033. Changing your mind? That's a woman's perogative - so the saying goes.
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  6034.  @torqueofthedevil8145  Trump takes no notice of anyone who can't advance his own interests.
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  6035. Boris should not have used What's App mixing up private and government messages. He's made a rod for his own back there. He's such a shyster. It's up to the inquiry to decide what's relevant.
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  6036. No. They are generous in allowing casting according to best actress regardless of background. remember Romans in Western films never seem to be played by Italians. It's a drama so a bit of poetic licence is allowed.
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  6037.  @808State21  They use the most appropriate tests they have if they have nothing better. Would you prefer them to do nothing? Good luck with the court cases I can't see those getting anywhere.
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  6038. What has he lost? Have you found it?
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  6039.  @Paulie-276  You may not agree with him, but if he did what he thought was right that doesn't mean he lost those qualities you mention.
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  6040. I think it's more that when a government lies as much as this one, no one believes them when they say there are adequate supplies. Their credibility is nil.
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  6041. Trumpists don't believe in democracy -only in getting their own way by whatever means.
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  6042. It's much more accurate than many other news channels.
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  6043. That charlatan and snake oil salesman? We already had one of them as P.M. We don't need another.
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  6044. How many people have died from hunger and poverty as they've lost their jobs? The virus affects those who haven't had it too.
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  6045.  Jimmy Cricks  The virus is not less dangerous than the flu. Where do you get the evidence for that? There is also a vaccine for the flu but not yet one for Covid. The lockdowns are not 'killing everyone'. That's an exaggeration but I do wonder why this government stopped testing and tracing which they were doing successfully early on, and which would have allowed them to avoid lockdowns. I also wonder why they lockdown in Labour held areas when Tory held areas with worse Covid figures escape lockdowns. I don't think it should be a case of having constant lockdowns or letting it rip. It should have been managed more carefully and less drastically after the first lockdown. However when Covid spreads rapidly because people ignore the scientific and medical advice to avoid the spread, then they will produce conditions that will trigger lockdown, and they have been warned of that so what's their excuse?
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  6046.  @rudymental9993  Partly because they were given only 4 hours notice but if there were no protection measures many would have died anyway. There is no win win solution here but look at this video. The health system was inadequate and overwhelmed. A bad dose of the virus would be a death sentence anyway. All those governments with people on subsistence wages or earnings should have supported them financially through the worst phases of the virus.
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  6047.  @rudymental9993  Well I had cancer myself this year and my operation was delayed by 3 months because of Covid. I was lucky as I had medication that was shrinking my tumour anyway before that. The medical advice during the height of the first wave of Covid was not to delay seeing a doctor and being referred for diagnosis. I agree with that advice. Fear of Covid should not hold people back from seeking a diagnosis for a serious illness like cancer or heart disease. I feel sorry if treatment or diagnosis has been delayed for people and they have had no control over that. Hopefully such conditions are prioritised over less serious ones. In my case 10 NHS trusts contracted with a private hospital for cancer operations. This was to keep non Covid and Covid patients apart from each other. I am o.k now. My brother in law who got Covid had a stroke during it and though he survived it he's had 2 more strokes since and is now severely incapacitated and not likely to recover his speech, ability to walk or feed himself. P.S. Just to clarify... I had NHS treatment by NHS staff, not private treatment. It was just that the NHS hired space in the private hospital (sessions the operating theatre and accommodation for patients).
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  6048.  @samaguga  Lol.
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  6049.  @pandamonium9255  which dumb broad? Are you referring to me? If I'm dumb I can't speak. That's what dumb means. Why can't people tolerate difference of opinion in a democracy? Don't Trump supporters believe in freedom of speech? Isn't that right enshrined in the American constitution? Are they unAmerican?
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  6050. Life was better under wet Tories. They centred things a bit more and were more 'one nation' Tories, and I say that though I am not a Tory supporter.
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  6051. I'm not a conspiracy theorist but Trump wouldn't say this to get out of more head to head debates would he? Moreover if he doesn't have the virus he can emerge from quarantine looking like someone who shrugged it off and say 'see it's nothing to worry about'.
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  6052. The arrangements here are probably decided by the government and Channel 4 has to fit in with those.
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  6053. trend
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  6054.  @Dubs22005  Haven't you been listening to the January 6th hearings. Testimony from so many people about what happened that day including from former Trump aides and supporters. The fact that his aides asked him to speak to the invading crowd asking them to go home and he refused to do it for hours.
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  6055. Not if you like Shakespeare
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  6056. Being ruled by someone with cognitive decline is better than being ruled by someone who has committed murder and who executes his people for any protest against the regime.
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  6057. I like the subtitles 'Don Old Trump' Freudian slip there.
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  6058. He hasn't 'recognised' the need for changes to himself as the person in charge and presiding over this culture. It took a report to tell him what he did? Boris Johnson has never been humble. Blames everyone except himself. There were regular organised events slotted into diaries.
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  6059. He is a spokesperson. That's his job, and he is complying with the lockdown. He can't personally control everyone. The police are there to tackle rule breaking.
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  6060. She died having plastic surgery. It's a modern Aesop's fable.
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  6061. He also seems to say that 'the President is next to my Daddy'.
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  6062.  @ClareFlynn-y8w  He was told the next bus would be 2 hours away but he decided not to wait but to set off walking.
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  6063. I believe when he was struggling he was still 11 km away from his destination. No one could do that distance in that heat. I really think Brits don't respect the Sun because they are not used to such a climate.
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  6064.  @gru6y17  Not thinking straight it seems.
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  6065. Trump's robbing his own supporters now? If that get's out, perhaps his campaign funds will dry up. Maybe he doesn't want to spend money on his campaign because he thinks he'll lose and he might as well grab the money himself. If/when he loses the election, expect lots of legal cases against him.
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  6066. Sky News Australia is just Rupert Murdoch's attack dog. Always attacking Biden and always supported Trump. What's the timing of these events. Biden may address the issue but he knows the Republicans won't let him take any preventative measures, even moderate ones, because in their minds the right to bear arms is more important than kids' right to life.
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  6067. She sounds like an Ayatollah.
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  6068. Are you telling her to change the law or go to France?
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  6069.  @christinaj.jensen4805  It's not the death so much as the cruel method but it would not have seemed out of the ordinary for the time I know. It seems to me that a 'peasant' impersonator who did not even speak the language of the person he was impersonating was no real threat. He probably had some mental defect and was more to be pitied than persecuted.
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  6070. Why is that a moral duty?
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  6071. No medical procedure is without risk. Life is not without risk, but some risks can be reduced, based on the science we have, luckily.
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  6072.  @mogznwaz  The biggest demand on the NHS is from the ageing population in Britain. Immigrants are needed to care for them both in the NHS and social care. Immigrants tend to be younger people and younger people don't use the NHS as much.
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  6073. It's because pay has not kept pace with inflation.
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  6074. Both USA and UK governments seem now to be planning to fiddle the statistics to make themselves look better. You couldn't make it up. Oops sorry, George Orwell did make it up in his novel 1984 - the rewriting of history by Big Brother.
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  6075. *conceited not conceded. (Who else is stupid?)
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  6076. Nonsense. There are no such things as high tax globalists.
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  6077. What is?
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  6078. Because since privatisation, shareholders interests (in making money out of the railways) come first. Because the Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling is an idiotic ideologue who is determined to stick to the contracting system however much it fails, however expensive it is, and however inefficient because the rail system as a whole cannot, under that system, make decisions that are in the best interests of the network as a whole and of passengers.
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  6079. This is a pathetic grumble. Waterstone's staff will help people find books on the shelves or order them for customers if requested.
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  6080. or have his tax loopholes blocked.
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  6081. Lord Snooty?
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  6082. The current outcome, local cuts, is to do with the fact that the Conservative government has cut the central grant to local councils since 2010, and to Batley and Spen Council by 74%. The central grant was actually a levelling up measure as it took levels of deprivation into account in its calculations. So far from levelling up, as the Tories say they want to do, Tory policies are causing more inequality. The central grant cuts hit poorer areas harder resulting in more cuts. Every constituency that brings in a Labour MP is making one step more towards evicting this awful, corrupt, mendacious government.
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  6083.  @martinmckay1181  It's not 'irony on'. It's 'irony in'. At least I know my language. You who call me stupid, for giving some factual information, do not.
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  6084.  @martinmckay1181  Stupid people or those with some kind of inferiority complex seem to make a big thing of calling other people stupid for no reason, because they have no other ideas to put forward. Your comments are just hot air.
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  6085. She's too dim.
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  6086.  @cleytoncabral8616  Sharpen your comprehension skills. I wasn't listening to the journalist. I was trying to explain to commentators here, the difference between terror and terrorism.
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  6087. There was a General Election.
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  6088. I think a less simple analogy would be that she bought a porsche and a lamborghini without saying how she was going to pay back the money she borrowed for that with a risk of going bankrupt. The lamborghini was a gift for her already wealthy friend (who has 4 lamborghinis already). She says 'why are you asking why I've bought a lamborghini and how I'm going to pay for it? Why is no one talking about the porsche that I've bought to donate to a charity. I bought it with borrowed cash. I gave the cash to another friend, Mr Energy Company, to pay for that and by the way, the charity will be paying Mr Energy Company back for it over the longer term, (but he won't be paying it back to me). I am doing this in the hope that a wealthy relative might leave me something in their will in future though I can't say who that might be or whether they will. The banks are upset at my hopeless lack of credible plans, and they are now threatening to withdraw my credit unless I pay higher interest.
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  6089. These Trumpists seem to be having fun, just finding out how many lies they can tell before anyone challenges them.
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  6090. He's your Daddy too now.
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  6091. Repelled not repulsed.
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  6092.  @MuttFaceTony  It doesn't tell your body how to make the virus but how to recognise it.
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  6093.  @MuttFaceTony  No I've looked it up. It tells the body how to produce antigens not how to produce the virus. https://www.itv.com/news/2020-12-02/how-does-the-pfizer-vaccine-work There would be no point in a vaccine that created the conditions it was meant to prevent. However the jab I've had is Astra Zeneca which also teaches the body to produce antigens but doesn't work in the same way as Pfizer or Moderna. It doesn't use mRNA.
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  6094. Many of them don't even get paid these days.
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  6095. Boris really does have a nerve. I'll be surprised if he actually does anything to 'level up'. Boris never learned lessons from the first wave or the second wave really. Looks like we might be headed for a 3rd wave.
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  6096.  @ashsqx3246  I thought it was NZ or South African. On balance to me it sounded more like NZ - also because I didn't think South Africa was known for having Afghan immigrants.
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  6097.  @redbackphill  I thought NZ or SA at first but on balance it seemed to me more like NZ. I didn't think SA was known for having Afghan immigrants.
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  6098.  @ashsqx3246  P.S. I just googled. The only other reference to him I could find was him talking to a NZ journalist from Al Jazheera, about NZ's humanitarian profile but the actual page is blocked.
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  6099.  @redbackphill  P.S. I just googled. The only other reference to him I could find was him talking to a NZ journalist from Al Jazheera, about NZ's humanitarian profile but the actual page is blocked.
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  6100.  @shirbir120  I guess the Taliban were looking for an orderly handover of power but Ghani was too scared to hang about.
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  6101. Well, you would say that, Mr double barrelled name.
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  6102. Real life witches don't exist. It's just a term used by people who don't understand some disturbing aspect of a woman.
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  6103. They are not all the same. Diverse, not the same.
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  6104.  @shaunfisher9292  We've not had an IS attack in the UK for some time. Russia has been more recently at war with IS via support for the Syrian regime.
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  6105. Exactly, and two wrongs don't make a right.
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  6106. Does voting matter when the Electoral College ignores the numbers? Hillary Clinton got millions more votes than Trump but Trump was declared President by the Electoral College.
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  6107.  @jjefferyworboys8138  All of the media is not going to ccreate something that doesn't exist. They are competitors, and would call each other out for that.
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  6108.  @JJ-tb9cq  I don't think they have the talent to do anything 'on purpose'.
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  6109. *indictment
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  6110. Many parents in poverty are low wage workers who just can't afford the rising prices of rents, food and energy because their wages don't increase correspondingly.
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  6111.  @Sam-oo1uo  Or perhaps the rents in some parts of the country, compared to the wage levels are not in a good relationship, and there's no spare capacity when prices go up. Also there's no education on personal finances in schools, or if there is, there didn't used to be. If there is a breadwinner and a child carer and the breadwinner dies or walks out that can leave people in trouble, or if the breadwinner loses their job or goes mad or becomes disabled, or if someone's business goes to the wall because of a pandemic.
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  6112.  @graceclaire4182  Perhaps some of these people are no wage rather than low wage and if they are dependent on benefits, those can often be cut off at short notice. Perhaps the parent(s) are hopeless and helpless.
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  6113.  @graceclaire4182  I think a lot of people may have tried to live the 'good' life by paying for everything in instalments or on credit, especially if they find it difficult to save. To be fair, they are encouraged to do so. Then when some crisis hits, including prices going up, they no longer have the money to pay for what they bought and it can get taken by the bailiffs. Many people are on such low wages that they are supplemented by working benefits and they don't have the money to pay for life insurance or private pensions. It's very much a low wage economy now. More people are renting and rent will go up over time. Mortgages are going up now with increases in interest rates. It's unusual for everything to go up in price at the same time, food, energy bills, water bills, transport and travel, rents and mortgages etc.
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  6114. And Jesus said, 'Stop vaping and fondling in public you hypocrite'.
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  6115. I thought his sister was the favoured heir (until recently?)
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  6116. The blind leading the blind.
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  6117. The Tories want lapdog media. There is no 'swamp' except in the minds of those who can't tolerate opinions that are different from or challenge their own. If it's going to be a lapdog medium then the government should fund it. If they make it like other private companies, it will actually have more freedom as it won't rely on public sector funding at all. The BBC pushed the responsibility for over 75 free licences onto the BBC without giving them any funding for it so they have to cut programmes. They've just cut the Victoria Derbyshire programme. Why can't the BBC sneer if it wants to. Boris Johnson and the Tories are always sneering. Isn't that free speech?
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  6118.  @rolandrimann8788  Because you might vote for her.
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  6119.  membershipofbus  Eh?
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  6120. or complicit
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  6121.  but ton  It's part of his image. He thinks women like it. It brings out the mothering instincts. As for men, it makes him look like no threat. He hides his real intentions behind a false image.
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  6122. To be fair to doctors, mental health services are severely underfunded and there is more and more demand for them. People are individuals and need more attention than doctors can give in 10 minute appointments. A good relationship with a doctor should always involve an exchange of information and sometimes assertiveness if need be, but without being aggressive. It's hard for a depressed person to be assertive on their own behalf I guess, and it requires some understanding of their own condition. I don't believe there is a 'cure' for depression. Symptoms can be alleviated with medication but in the end only the person themselves can get themselves out of it - sometimes with the help of friends or family. Some people never escape it, and poverty I think can be one cause, because of all the pressures and fractured relationships that can come with that.
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  6123.  @htb123  I'm not blaming those who have been harmed. I don't think it's a simple as you are making out.
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  6124.  @htb123  What should doctors do, in your opinion, when approached by someone with depression?
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  6125.  @htb123  That may work for some people but not for all, I think, but I do think pills should be a last resort or a temporary one, especially when they are addictive.
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  6126.  @Jack-fs2im  No they are denying Boris an election at the time of his choosing. I suspect we will get a chance at an election soon anyway. It was the Tories who changed the law to set the date for elections at every 5 years. The law says the only exception to that can be where a two thirds majority in the Commons, supports a different date. That law was passed democratically by the Tories themselves. Nothing that has happened is undemocratic just because some people don't like it. In any case the status of a Referendum, for a government, legally, is advisory not mandatory.
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  6127.  @Jack-fs2im  I don't think Labour promised to leave without a Deal. Anyway everyone who looks at this in any detail is realising what a catastrophe leaving would be for the country (except for the rich).
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  6128. You have to understand that the UK is always 'having a debate over how to reform the NHS' which is code for The Tories don't really approve of it and want to privatise by stealth (slowly and gradually) because they know any suggestion of privatisation of the NHS is a vote loser. The Labour Party does support the NHS so tries to undo Tory damage any time it's in power. The term 'socialised medicine' is not used in the UK. Only Americans use that term. I think they use it as a way of trying to create aversion to the idea of universal healthcare, free at the point of delivery, because the word socialist or socialised is not a popular term in the USA and creates a sense of fear. The Tories tend to allow waiting lists for non urgent NHS operations etc to grow because it incentivises people to turn to private healthcare in order to skip those waiting lists. The Labour Party, when in government, tries to bring waiting lists down in the NHS. During the period of Covid, private hospitals have often been contracted to do some non Covid NHS work, paid for by NHS funds, because it's not possible to expand NHS staff numbers quickly, because of how long it takes to train doctors and nurses, and because of Tory government unwillingness to fund expansion of those numbers. The Tories would rather the balance of extra work is taken on by the Private Sector.
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  6129. I've a feeling that the numbers of deaths in India are largely understated.
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  6130. You mean Stephen Yaxley Lennon. You can't trust a man with two names.
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  6131. @Ford Torino Three is not two.
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  6132. He doesn't love you though.
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  6133. French fisherman 'There are no fish in French waters. They've been overfished. So can we have a free for all in British waters so they can be overfished too?
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  6134. Sounds like he wasn't getting the right diet before.
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  6135.  @wizbob1  It would be painful if they were scraped. I think you mean scrapped.
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  6136. You can find further details if you google. She had her dog off the leash in a part of the park where signs say it should be on a leash. He saw it running through newly planted areas and disturbing birds he was interested in seeing. He requested that she put the dog on a leash. She ignored the request, so he started taking evidence by filming her. She got upset and asked him to stop. She came over to him and threatened him with the police, the rest you can see in the video.
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  6137.  @db4257  Yeah, very petty to begin with, but it could have ended up with serious consequences for him. Thankfully it didn't.
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  6138. She thought she was voting for a discriminating bigot? No, he's an undiscriminating bigot? Meaning he doesn't take care who he deports as long as they are foreign or come from a predominantly Muslim country.
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  6139.  @Theexcellorator64  Well they can't disperse them before it happens. I'm guessing the marchers didn't put an advance request to the police to march legally.
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  6140. The result of too much gaslighting and windbaggery, and not enough of the oxygen of truth.
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  6141. I once visited a rubber factory as a child. The sight of many colours of balloons on their moulds and the smell of rubber was heavenly. I was bought a couple of rubber squeaky toys. I still like the smell of rubber to this day. I didn't know such places still existed. My employer moved at least half of its staff to Leeds from London in the early 90s. I'm so glad I didn't go but I think many places that were thriving then are struggling now. I knew the economy would shrink once we left the EU, but when I said that many people refused to believe it. It was labelled 'project fear'. Many of these empty buildings are beautiful but how long before they deteriorate?
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  6142.  @nanayaa7179  There is already a petition going round. I signed it some time ago. I can't remember who's doing it. Why not google it?
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  6143. There have been previous bulletins about his treatment. He was given oxygen but luckily he didn't have to go on a ventilator. It could have gone that way, but thankfully it didn't in his case.
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  6144.  @buzz3866  How would I know? One of the nurse's parents talked about their daughter having her hands on various control buttons. The NHS will never reveal exact details of someone's treatment, and it doesn't seem that Boris wants to talk about his treatment in detail, and neither would I if I were him. It's a private matter. It seems though that he may have had some supporting interventions short of being on a ventilator. I mean you can be given intravenous drugs and fluids to maintain blood pressure, reduce fever, keep you hydrated and nourished and support organs. I'm only guessing, though.
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  6145.  @buzz3866  'anti-malarial zinc sulfate'? I thought that was fake news. Trump's little obsession. I'll look it up. It's true that only 50% seem to survive ventilators. Whether that's the ventilators or that they are too far gone by that stage I don't know. If you don't get enough oxygen your organs start to die anyway.
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  6146.  @buzz3866  Here's some evidence. It appears not to be effective/ untried in severe cases. The NHS does not experiment with unproven treatments and they certainly would not be experimenting on the P.M. https://www.sciencealert.com/small-trial-found-antimalarial-is-not-effective-for-treating-coronavirus
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  6147.  @Nathan-hc2bb  Who should they pin it on?
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  6148. Which ones?
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  6149.  @dianeunderhill8506  It's dramatic licence. If it helps people from diverse backgrounds to take an interest in English history, I don't mind. It didn't affect the main characters.
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  6150. Fracking, coming to an area near you. Fracking hell!.
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  6151. It's disingenuous to say the West doesn't want peace. It's Putin that doesn't want peace. The very many attempts at peace talks came to nothing and Putin breaks agreements anyway. He's a complete liar. He's the one who invaded Ukraine after previously saying he didn't have the intention to. He's prepared to fight to the last Russian it seems.
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  6152. His parents may have been able to go to work without concerning themselves about the unions after Thatcher, but I bet their pay rates suffered as a consequence.
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  6153.  @johnjjl  Really. Nissan came to the UK they said because of the skills of the automotive workers here (plus they could pay workers less in the North East and pocket a government subsidy also).
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  6154.  @olmostgudinaf8100  I know it doesn't need to be. I'm only reporting what has been predicted.
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  6155. You should be in the Music Hall.
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  6156.  mathew lawton  To buy iron what? Why iron?
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  6157.  @SuperFerdie1965  Actually there are plenty of irons in the Tory Party. Their voting pattern is as varied as everyone else's.
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  6158.  @AcousticNRG  I see so people have to meet certain standards of appearance to be a politician that you approve of. It's a beauty contest is it?
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  6159. @Robert Murray Robert Murray, the typical bigoted Scot?
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  6160. If Boris is more relaxed about immigration why has he put hell hound Priti Patel in charge of it?
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  6161. One difference is that the population of the USA is allowed to protest against the USA human rights abuses listed by Jeffrey Sachs and these can be openly mentioned, but the Chinese population is not allowed to protest against any Chinese human rights abuses and information about them on the internet is blocked in China.
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  6162. Putin is prepared to fight to the last Russian it seems. Just like Hitler was prepared to fight to the last German. That's what happens when there is no effective democratic system.
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  6163.  @chrisgillard6129  No. It's Ukraine that is willing to fight to preserve its independence. As for Western democracies, at least they can vote people out. Putin's regime is just a kleptocracy. He even has a gold toilet on his plane. What a perfect symbol of corruption, and he gets rid of political opponents and critical journalists by violent means.
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  6164.  @thaitraveller9756  Biden has recently delivered some excoriating speeches about the MAGA movement and its adherents and also speeches about his policies that Republicans are taking credit for in their local areas. You should look those speeches up. Russia's economy is suffering badly. Dictators never prosper ultimately.
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  6165. Not so. Boris did this to himself by getting taxpayer funded defence lawyers. The client of the lawyers is the government as they are the payers and that means the lawyers have to hand over the info they have on Boris to the government.
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  6166. Not a very nice one.
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  6167. Idiots are attracted to political idiots. They feel an affinity.
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  6168.  @lumazzoni  *Cabinet
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  6169.  @charlierose7153  Not fact. You will pay with Boris's Brexit though because it won't benefit the average person in the least.
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  6170. *uninterested or not interested. Disinterested means impartial.
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  6171. What does that mean? Reform could mean anything they want it to. I hated when Blair's Labour party constantly used the term 'modernisation', which is another term that could mean anything. Look behind the slogans to what they intend to do and whether their manifesto adds up (It does not).
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  6172. On the BBC site it mentions she may have been angry about youtube "filtering" her videos, whatever that means.
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  6173. Grihm Fayte. What are gun videos? Commercials for guns, or just violent videos?
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  6174. Probably, because the Taliban will no longer be attacking it.
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  6175.  @MrJeffHead  The value of their pay had dropped over the Tory years by 35%. It costs the taxpayer more in referred costs to have unfilled vacancies, long waiting lists and expensively trained doctors that then go to the private sector or abroad to earn better pay.
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  6176. Ironically air conditioners will add to global warming won't they? It's a vicious circle.
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  6177. It's rude to point.
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  6178. Someone slapped your head too hard.
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  6179.  @timcomley3241  Apologies about commenting on spelling and being a bit insulting. That went too far. I'm just frustrated at the extent of misconceptions all around, everywhere you look, but I didn't swear at any one. I never would.
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  6180.  @timcomley3241  I doubt it from what you've said.
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  6181. I wouldn't do it.
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  6182.  @andrewkenny4633  None now. UK oysters used to be cleaned in a plant in the Netherlands but since Brexit the UK is not entitled to use that facility and we didn't build one in the UK. I just looked all this stuff up. UK fishermen could have looked it up before voting for Brent.
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  6183.  @LeperKing9063  Oh dear.
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  6184. I grew up with the Alcester Road running through our area and nobody I knew pronounced it Alsster. Everyone pronounced it Allsesster.
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  6185. BestBloke. It's spelt anti-semitic not anti-semetic
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  6186. Paul Cockram. It's not semetic it's semitic.
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  6187.  @willscarlet3620  You will either end up paying more taxes or more likely there will be no public services when you need them because there will be insufficient tax to pay for them. Individuals will have to pay regardless of their wealth or lack of it. go back to sticking your head in the sand. You seem comfortable there.
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  6188.  @angrybrit7331  It's not the UK government that decides how to spend the money that comes back from the EU. It goes to projects and places in the UK that qualify under EU rules. If our government had the chance they would not spend it to rejuvanate poorer areas, as they haven't done so with the 99% of UK spending that comes under their own controls. Some of these places don't seem to realise where much of the investment comes from and they will lose it once we leave the EU. It shouldn't be looked at narrowly as a monetary transaction. We gain a lot economically by being in the EU as our economy prospers from it, more than if we were out, with no contributions to make. It's just that our government chooses not to share that prosperity fairly. The UK contributions saved from being out would more than be swallowed up by trying to shore up the areas hit by being out of that market. That's if the government were minded to use ithe money that way. They are not known for being too generous our government, because the Tories believe in 'shrinking the state' and that means not putting so much money into it as well as selling parts off or privatising services. It's not the rich that rely on public services and the jobs they provide so much so it's not the rich who will take a hit from coming out of the EU. Private sector businesses will also be hit, but rich investors don't care as they will be able to move their investments to parts of the word that are more booming and park their profits more in tax avoidance areas. There's nothing patriotic about a hard Brexit. It will hit the country hard, but rich Brexiteers hide true motives behind the fig leaf that it will somehow be better for Britain. Voters need to evict bad governments and vote in people who believe in creating a fairer society. That's the way to start to mend the situation. It's quite impressive really how Brexiteers manage to focus voters wrath on particular elements, in order to gain their support, whilst not letting them see the overall picture.
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  6189.  @angrybrit7331  Well the CBI which represents businesses in the UK has warned the government that a no deal Brexit would be damaging for UK business and the economy. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/48465791
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  6190.  @angrybrit7331  The Conservatives didn't get an overall majority. They had to pay a billion pounds to northern Irish party the DUP to prop them up in government. Anyway lots of people trust what the Conservative party and government said and assume no deal must be o.k if the government says so. Here's one thing you can look forward to in a hard Brexit world. There will be more such things. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=670106333434009
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  6191.  @Andrew-is7rs  No deal would have been a worse situation - just like now but with added tariffs.
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  6192. *She
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  6193. That Chechen leader later tried to stage a coup against Putin and now is dead, but even all Chechens did not support him. Russian supporting Chechens committed horrible tortures in Chechnya against those who advocated independence from Russia.
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  6194. Gaetz twice accuses Dean of not knowing facts in the Muller case when the Dean has already told him that it's not why he's there at the hearing, but to provide historical context. During the repetition of his accusation Gaetz prevents Dean from intervening to again point out that's not why he's there.
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  6195.  @Rosskles  You're welcome.
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  6196.  @Great_WesternTVFan  Farage has not even bothered to turn up. I wonder how much time he has spent in Clacton since his election.
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  6197. What do you expect? It's their club and their rules and there are 27 of them in that club. A person requesting to leave a club cannot be treated with the same favouritism as a member, otherwise there is no point in having a club. I don't think they would have given better terms to anyone else, because the backstop, which is a sticking point for many MPs, is a key element for Europe. Her problem was fourfold I think. 1) Holding an unnecessary election in 2017 which lost her overall majority in the House of Commons, because she mistakenly thought she would have a great victory over the opposition, and 2) putting party interests before the country's. She should have consulted MPs earlier about what sort of deal or Brexit they would support.3) She has terrible judgement in people. Appointing Boris Johnson, David Davies and later Dominic Raab to key positions regarding Brexit negotiations, was appointing people with very limited abilities, strong prejudices and little knowledge - not people who are on top of their briefs 4) Once she makes her mind up it's difficult to get her to change it. She's inflexible. Not so good in the situation she is in. In her defence, if she'd done 2) the likelihood is that her party would have ejected her as leader, and also until the Brexit implications became clearer I don't think many MPs were clear about what type of Brexit they would support. Is Theresa pronounced Terayza or is it pronounced Tereeza? I'm inclined to think that only pretentious folk pronounce it Terayza.
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  6198. Perhaps he was on the job (heh heh) but not the one he was paid for.
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  6199. Yeah, That's o.k. I know someone who looks like him except for hairstyle and skin colour. He's handsome enough.
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  6200. We are known as stupid headbangers but we prefer to be known as ultra stupid headbangers (grin of self satisfaction).
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  6201.  @AbsentMindedGamer  Indeed. I wasn't endorsing her.
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  6202.  @uniquevideosUk  * not have or not've (English please). He has to meet a target set by David Cameron in earlier years.
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  6203.  @jesusisking3974  Western scientists have checked and said it's not man made. Look it up.
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  6204. Like what?
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  6205. I wonder if we'll be swallowed up in the
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  6206. What if you keep your phone switched off when not in use and in a lead box?
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  6207.  @MegaDavyk  They don't kill journalists like the Russians do.
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  6208.  @かんぐちあき  Yes, true, but don't forget also that Putin was happy to welcome Mohammed Bin Salman after the Saudi Embassy murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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  6209.  Matthew Jamison  It's the ones that aren't, the principled ones that are killed.
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  6210.  @Clair.e  The Russian 'visitors' who are on CCTV in Salisbury on the day and admitted they were there, were found to have been employed by the Russian security services and one was given an award by Putin. A simple google search by an independent body traced them to evidence of their employment. When the Russian security service poisoned Litvinenko, the trail of plutonium (not easily available outside of government circles, was tracked through the restaurant where they used it in their meeting with Litvinienko, the hotel where they stayed and the airoplane they returned to Russia in. I can't be bothered discussing things with people who know nothing. Look it up for yourselves and look up what Putin has said about 'traitors' and how they should be treated.
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  6211.  @MegaDavyk  *women (plural)
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  6212.  @marktolman9120  No it's not all from intelligence. The people who identified who the culprits were was Bellingcat an independent investigative site doing investigation themselves.
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  6213.  @rhfail4678  Lack of any research will make you swallow Russian propaganda won't it?
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  6214.  @rhfail4678  Where's your evidence. Sounds like you have been reading Russian propaganda. That's not what I've read. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/salisbury-attack-russia-spies-novichok-arrest-switzerland-lab-samples-test-a8537116.html
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  6215. He's 100 today and has now been made an honorary Colonel. He raised at least £29 million.
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  6216. We all were. Everyone came from Africa originally. Skin colour changes over time according to the climate people are living in.
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  6217. It sounds like she could sue her insurance company if her cancer cover is 'fully comprehensive' though who has the energy for that at such a time. It may be that NIHCE have licensed the drug but won't make it available on the NHS because of cost or cost effectiveness? It needs clarification. She should write to her MP and the Health Minister.
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  6218.  @Raffin74  I hope so too.
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  6219. Great series of books that was.
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  6220. Putin also disrespected Angela Merkel. Maybe he has a problem with women leaders.
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  6221.  John Henshaw  Are you? I wouldn't draw attention to it.
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  6222.  John Henshaw  Are you voting for more of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpj0xeTnqBk
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  6223. A top 10 of LZ's baselines would also be great. Also a top 10 of drums and a top 10 of vocals. Maybe you've done some already.
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  6224.  @alvinmerigold4717  Bullying is telling CH4 to drop him from this job because you dislike his voice.
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  6225. You must be right, because you say so.
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  6226.  @andypandy-ys3xy  Bercow wasn't sacked. He resigned. Do you think I care about Bercow's peerage? You bunch of delusional Brexiteers.
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  6227.  @andypandy-ys3xy  He actually resigned though I will admit that if he'd stood again he probably knew he would not have succeeded in being voted back in after the election. The reason he resigned when he did was because his successor would then be voted in by a more Remain parliament than would have happened if he left later on. As you or someone said, the speaker is supposed to be neutral. Bercow definitely didn't want a Tory placeman to be voted in after him.
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  6228.  @andypandy-ys3xy  Don't be silly. He was a member of the Conservative Party at the time and always has been in the Conservative Party. Over the years he did move more from the right of the party to the left of the party, but the left of the Conservative party are not socialists. Ken Clarke for instance was on the left of the Conservative Party. He was very against trade unions and many other things associated with socialism. The left of the Conservative party did tend to be more associated with remaining in the EU though.
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  6229. Patriotism - the last refuge of the scoundrel. They all claim to be patriotic.
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  6230. Woke means disagreeing with your views?
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  6231. All very well Boris but it seems that none of the money will be going to social care before 2024.
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  6232. Perhaps they thought you had a sense of humour.
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  6233.  @DJSwezzleMusic  What, because they report on poverty?
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  6234. Perhaps they won't be able to after everyone else has seen this video.
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  6235. Even if most people don't die of it, it can still be very nasty. I can understand people trying to avoid getting this.
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  6236.  @marekohampton8477  👍👍
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  6237. Young Man. I didn't say that. It's up to Belgium.
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  6238.  @darrenbellenger1  What are the good signs? Do tell.
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  6239.  @derekc6445  I don't hope for the worst. I hope for the best but hope isn't enough. Realpolitik and facts will rule the day, and not in our favour I feel. No doubt the government will be taking some actions to try to disguise this fact.
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  6240.  Neil Benjamin  Not moaning, just injecting some sense of reality into all the fantasy.
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  6241.  @darrenbellenger1  A lot of Care Homes for the elderly in Britain have been sold off to hedge funds who want the maximum profit for the poorest service they can get away with and Rees Mogg's hedge fund has opened up in Dublin so that investment can go to Ireland which indicates they are not confident about the UK's future and are managing risk that way.
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  6242.  Justin Time  No counter-arguments then, no evidence?
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  6243.  Justin Time  Says you. Predictions haven't been disproved yet, as we've not properly Brexited yet. This is the transition period when we are still trading on EU terms.
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  6244.  Justin Time  Voting to leave changes nothing. It's when the UK actually leaves, after that transition period, and if they leave without a comprehensive trade deal, that things will change and risks will increase but some things will be felt immediately in Jan 2020 if there's no deal and new arrangements have not been put in place by the end of December 2020 (Unless Boris extends the transition period, which he says he won't).
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  6245. Which time machine have you fast forwarded on?
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  6246. Everyone's scared of the Taliban but the Taliban are scared of women.
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  6247. I read your comment and I thought you didn't sound well.
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  6248.  @pauldailey4477  What do you mean? Your comment looks anti Jewish. That's what I meant.
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  6249.  @pauldailey4477  You can't be very intelligent to ask me a question like that. I don't curse anyone or judge them on characteristics they were born with. That would be stupid. I am not Jewish by the way. I just don't like bigotry and race hatred.
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  6250. @Rimadim dim No. He left because he thought he was going to get promoted and then he didn't. This is a power struggle about who runs the country - Cummings and his ally Caine, or do elected representatives get a say.
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  6251. Cat that didn't have a mother now doesn't have its best friend. Sad.
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  6252.  @alessandroricci7294  Almost everything. Lavrov echoes Putin's lies. From the beginning they denied that they were going to invade Ukraine. That was the first big lie.
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  6253. You've been at the Ouija board again, haven't you?
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  6254. He keeps estimating the size of fish that he's caught.
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  6255. Don't worry they are going up again now. There is always a time lag between changes in Covid measures and the effects of that showing up in the Covid figures, but high levels of vaccination are helping.
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  6256. *Questions Need Answering
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  6257.  @MrArthurGiles  We'll see shall we?
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  6258.  @iwantabetterworld1759  I sort of know the answer to my own question. I watched some documentary programmes on Trump. His father told him that winners and losers were born that way - that it's in their DNA -and that Trumps were born winners so they can't lose.
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  6259. No brain though, unfortunately.
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  6260.  @thenorfolkst  We already had the unicorn vote. That was for Brexit.
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  6261.  @commiehunter7964  No. I've only one account. You are the troll here.
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  6262.  @clivet3252  Boris was always going to engage lawyers to help his defence, and we the taxpayers are paying for them.
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  6263.  @clivet3252  I seem to remember that the phone hacking inquiry also had lawyers questioning the witnesses. Is it really that unusual.
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  6264. I don't know why Boris mentioned a statutory instrument. SIs are not debated as far as I'm aware. They are only meant for financial matters and it's an abuse to use them for other purposes.
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  6265. He's such a moaning Minnie. He's well off enough not to have to face the problems that most people do.
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  6266.  @Forthestate  Indeed.
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  6267. I bet Farage is aggrieved now that he's not in the EU linking up with the EU's right wing parties.
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  6268. Looks like my comment of earlier today has been removed. What sensitive souls these righties are. I shall check back later to see if this is removed. What fun!
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  6269.  @hpoplick1  No I don't support MAGA. My comment was in response to James Perry's comment.
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  6270. They do have some policies and principles but policies are generally readied more closer to election time so you know what they'd do if they were in government. It's no good having too many fixed polices too early because circumstances change, the economy changes, and the government may steal your policies of parts of them or try to sabotage them
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  6271.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  Are you proposing a war with Ireland after we've so recently ended 900 years of oppression or conflict there? That is mad. Joining the customs union would be far easier - no paperwork at borders, no tariffs, no delays in trade, no border issues with NI or ROI. It costs a lot of money to wage a war.
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  6272.  @WarDogYtPersonal  You know nothing, Jon Snow. The NI protocol was suggested and agreed by the UK government but it seems Boris never had any intention of implementing it. You can't mess the EU around like that. They will hold the UK to its agreement. In any case there is no other solution while NI is in the UK with a border with an EU country. If there was another solution all the experts from the UK and the EU working on this problem for the last 4 years would have found it.
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  6273. What about the S sound in Spanish? I heard it started to be pronounced as a "th" sound because there was a Spanish king with a lisp and everyone had to speak like him so that his speech impediment was not noticeable. Is that true?
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  6274. He said London's only in tier 3. It's in tier 2. Tier 3 is the top tier.
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  6275. The purpose of the interview was so that he could lie about lying.
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  6276. *could've
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  6277. Football is a team and doesn't depend on one player only. Scapegoating is not a nice trait.
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  6278. Lockdowns were decided by Boris Johnson but too late to work effectively which meant there was more than one and for longer than would otherwise be needed, because Johnson would not listen to any experts. The Tories and Brexit have hugely damaged farming. Their economic 'expert' said that Brexit would damage farming and UK manufacturing and trade but the Tories didn't care. They just lied about it except when Boris let slip his real feelings and said 'fuck business'
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  6279.  @BroncoBill321  It's called a general election which the Tories don't want to hold quickly.
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  6280.  @robertmalyn6493  It's part of the system of checks and balances to try and get the Commons to reconsider bad ideas or just improve them. They can't ultimately block it though. Without the Lords any loony badly thought out idea could become law without further considered scrutiny.
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  6281.  @robertmalyn6493  If it ain't broke don't fix it. I do think a consideration by another body with lots of experience is a good thing and has proved to be over the centuries. Whether the Commons takes notice or not is a different matter. Imagine if the Post Office had been subject to an independent assessor who looked at what they were doing and how they were behaving. That would not have been a bad thing and might have saved them a lot of trouble in the longer run as well as protecting the lives of innocent sub-postmasters. Sadly those who were in the position to scrutinize the PO were not really independent. The assessors brought in by the P.O were funded by them and when they started unearthing the truth, they were dispensed with.
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  6282.  @algo2957  He hasn't been in power yet so he hasn't had the chance to be what you allege.
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  6283.  @dragonfly6908  Let's hope he does get the keys. It's our only hope. His money only comes from the value of the house he owns as house values have shot up in London and the south in recent years and from the money he's earned through making the most of his education and getting a good job as a lawyer. I don't think he has multi-millions though. Do you not admire people who make their own way in the world, who have earned everything they have rather than just being born into wealth and making money from having money? What's wrong with that? He only abstained as a protest because he didn't think the financial support was enough but I expect the Tory media has twisted that and you've been swallowing what they say.
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  6284.  @dragonfly6908  However we are living in a more scientific age and scientists and medical experts over the last few years warned the government that a pandemic was the top risk for the country, and made recommendations for the government to prepare for it, all of which the Tory government ignored. The government also continued to ignore expert advice and only took action when it was too late and took ineffective action too, so they do have to take their share of the blame
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  6285.  @dragonfly6908  You think they've done their best under the circumstances? Those are circumstances they've created in some cases which they could have avoided. You are too kind. A government can give a crap performance and you will forgive them, even though they were informed by experts and chose to ignore them. I think we get the governments we deserve in that case.
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  6286.  @ralphlazio505  Her reactions are well considered though, unlike Trump''s and don't forget she's also a new President still putting things in place, no sweat.
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  6287. Stupid woman or stupid man is not allowable under Parliamentary rules. MPs are not allowed to insult each other. However after listening to several minutes of childish attacks from May, I'm not surprised he lost his patience. Brexit is what they should be concentrating on though. This is not the best use of their time.
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  6288. If Trump ever gets another chance at election, he will make sure to pick a corrupt running mate, so he has a stooge willing to overturn the election results. Trump is a scary demagogue whose desire is to be an authoritarian dictator that can never be ousted. Won't this hearing prejudice any future trial of Trump though?
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  6289.  @Saoirse_don_Phalaistín  As long as people know what his bias is.
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  6290. liars
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  6291. What is it with the big red/pink chunky (plastic?) necklaces - Theresa May's and Harriet Harman's choice of necklace.
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  6292. One person defended him because "that just comes out of his mouth without intending to offend" (my paraphrase). Even though he implies that it bypassed what little brain Trump possesses. Trump says things in the White House that conflict with what he says to the media but inconsistency doesn't seem to bother Trump fans.
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  6293.  @jeffsuter344  You are the second person to point that out to me.
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  6294. *waste
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  6295. People shouldn't have to live in such fear. The authorities should do something about gun control and mental health services. The gun lobby has too much power and influence.
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  6296. Because his childhood ambition was to be King of the World, whereas Corbyn's ambition was to make life better for the disadvantaged.
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  6297. Ultimately it's the government that people keep voting in.
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  6298. That's not the purpose of the film. It wasn't written by the faithful. It's an imaginary story based on a novel.
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  6299. The coroner should have investigated the cause of death. I've had the first vaccine anyway and lots of people I know have. We are all fine. They ask you beforehand if you have any serious allergy (e.g. one that has put you in hospital) but I suppose not everyone can know if they are going to have an allergic reaction if they've not had one before. They also ask you if you are o.k. at the moment (i.e if you have any illness) but people can have an illness and not know it sometimes. Nothing in life is absolutely risk free. I'm not as old as 80 but I'm old enough to feel it's right to risk having the vaccine because I know the risk is low and because if I caught Covid I'm sure it would kill me as I have diabetes and asthma. I've had a lot of vaccines in my life. All those childhood ones, and in addition tetanus vaccines, a pneumonia vaccine and flu vaccines every year. I've not felt harmed by any of them though sometimes there are mild side effects for a couple of days.
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  6300. Mr Self-Interest wants everything to benefit him and hisrich chums. He's sitting it out hoping to come back as leader one day. Find it hard to listen to him for much more than a minute.
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  6301. It's a sign of Britain (or more accurately England) descending into a third world country. The irony is that in the past we didn't have computer systems and these, when they arrived, were supposed to make things quicker and easier but the Tory government has been cutting its departments budgets for public services and simply won't fund the necessary staff for border controls for instance and if it's not the government it's private companies being allowed to squeeze maximum profits for the lowest possible service provision. We are also a poorer country now since we left the EU.
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  6302. Nyctohylophiliac. Keep your hair on. It's only a play.
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  6303.  @eduardselskiy320  I can't translate that. It's too long.
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  6304.  @agarjakendu  I know that. It's your friend also.
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  6305.  @selcukcilek555  History is not written into my head by corporate western media. I don't take sides on that basis, but seek to look at things from an objective viewpoint also taking into account how democratic a country is.
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  6306.  @imanoldurham5395  Google bollocks
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  6307.  @tharoke8494  What is his right? Which international law gives him the right to invade Ukraine?
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  6308.  @aktharchowdhury9839  I don't think NATO has done that in Ukraine. Ukraine is not a member of NATO, but threatening a neighbouring country is certainly the way to make them want to have missiles.
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  6309.  @Евген_Москва  There were no NATO missiles in Ukraine until Putin attacked it. Ukraine was not a member of NATO.
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  6310.  @urszulaurszula1164  Ukraine is not a member of NATO though. NATO feared that Russia was an aggressive state and Putin proved them right.
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  6311.  @eduardselskiy320  The thing is that Putin has already expressed aggressive intent to take other countries in Europe if he wins in Ukraine. Donbas was Ukrainian. Ukraine was defending its territory. I would not mind if Russia sent missiles to Nicaragua, Venezuela or Cuba if those countries wanted them, as long as those countries had control of those missiles.
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  6312.  @cliveconnor6543  They had an 'election' after they'd invaded and we all know how fair elections held by Russia are.
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  6313.  @TheChristiancohen  If you think they know EXACTLY what they are doing, you must have great faith in the competence of this government. I think public health interests and economic interests are always jockeying for priority with them. and now economic interests are starting to win out.
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  6314.  @TheChristiancohen  Yes, or not so organised chaos.
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  6315. Putin put his troops on Ukraine's border first. Putin has previously invaded and taken over Crimea which was part of Ukraine. Putin also first behave aggressively towards the EU by encouraging Belarus to invite in immigrants and dump them on the Polish border.
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  6316.  @AmmoC9M  Yep, but both were wrong.
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  6317. It's 'The Daily Politics' show. The BBC no longer employs Andrew Neill though he was one of their best interviewers of politicians. He's not a leftist. He's a conservative but he's pretty good at being an impartial interviewer. He used to work for one of Rupert Murdoch's right wing newspapers.
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  6318. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AviADrhX-v8&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=43&t=0s
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  6319. I don't see Trump pulling out of the race. He never thinks he can't win and also it's his only chance of avoiding jail if he can be elected before he goes to jail. It's also his only chance of trying another coup and he seems to have no reverse gear.
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  6320. Their next step will be to arm the police.
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  6321. Eh? I've heard of diversion tactics but this is ridiculous.
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  6322. He was ejected from Labour for voting for the Lib Dems in the Euro elections.
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  6323. We all knew test and trace wasn't working because they started it too late, after the disease had got out of hand. As for the other precautions, it depends to what extent people have followed the rules. The overall number of cases does seem to be declining day after day now. Only the deaths have gone up but that represents people who caught it up to 4 weeks ago.
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  6324.  @janettewhitchurch1567  Yes, a cynical move because they didn't have the equipment to deal with it at the time - the PPE.
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  6325. And how exactly will we prosper when we have no power and are at a complete disadvantage with other bigger countries who can demand whatever terms they like, to their own advantage, for trade with us? We'll need them more than they'll need us, so we'll have no power to resist their demands. Brexiters just say 'We'll excel and prosper' but without providing any evidence of that.
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  6326. Mad Mercian, For some reason I can't find your latest response to me on this page. Your stats mean 48% of exports are to the EU. That's a lot of the economy to put at risk.You mention the US. At the moment Trump is busy slapping tarrifs on imports from countries outside of the UK and the kind of trade deals he wants are only those where the US is the gainer at the expense of external traders. Their food and drug standards are lower than ours and he would insist we accept US food imports such as chlorine washed chicken and hormone and antibiotic fed cattle probably with lower animal welfare standards as well. He would probably want us to privatise the NHS also so US companies can take it over. The world is full of sharks my friend, willing to wage trade wars, and the EU are the least of them. You need to consider imports also because their prices affect the cost of living here in the UK. Imports of things people like from the EU such as foods will go up in price without any deal. Travel to EU countries may become more bureaucratic and difficult. Seeking work in the EU will probably not be possible or very difficult. I am a Mercian too, but not a mad one.
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  6327. Mad Mercian. Who are you going to replace 48% of trade with if you don't like the terms other countries are wanting to impose on us? Can we really afford to turn down trade with them if we don't like the terms? Apart from the US trying to impose onerous terms, the Chinese would too. In fact they don't really let people trade into China. and where they have, to a limited extent, they have insisted that all the intellectual property be handed over too (so they can make their own copies more cheaply). That's one third of the world's population, the US and the EU are another huge chunk. Who is left who is going to be able to make up for loss of the large EU market? Africa does not have the kind of consumer wealth to make up for it. Asia has plenty of other closer neighbouring countries to trade with like India, Japan, China and South Korea. We're not going to have it easy. Our goods will cost more to transport further afield and do we make anything they want - anything they can't get closer to home?
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  6328. They say no one is indispensable at work and we see an example of that as the waters seamlessly close over the resignations of Boris Johnson and David Davies and they are replaced. The same is true of trade. Our trade with the EU will be replaced by someone else. Our Brexit will be seen as an opportunity by others to replace us.
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  6329. Mad Mercian. So if we are already trading with these countries the EU is not holding us back from that. We'll have to trade even more if we lose the EU market but whether we can if Trump knows we are so dependent on his trade he can screw us down, I don't know. Screwing people down is what he's about at the moment. Trade deals are going to come with pressure and costs. The large countries can do without trade from us but we can't do without trade from them. It's not a level playing field. It will be like a 6 stone weakling taking on Charles Atlas or Mohammed Ali and thinking they can come out of that on top. I admire your optimism but I don't share it.
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  6330. I heard an Indian journalist (on a youtube video) saying that the deaths in India are more like 10 times the official figures. The government suppresses messages from people saying how bad it is. The have the co-operation of Twitter in removing such messages. Also, some states will confiscate the property of people who complain there is not enough oxygen etc. P.S. Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go5rX070bh8 The Indian government has not banned political and religious gatherings that are spreading the disease and it has not issued or enforced proper guidance.
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  6331. I notice the CEO can't say remuneration. He said renumeration.
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  6332. It's pronounced Zelensky not Zee Elensky, surely?
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  6333. Clair Pahlavi In the UK a 'public' school is a private school. The non-private schools are state schools. I went to a voluntary aided school (state funded but not wholly state controlled) where I studied Latin, but they only taught it to the top class in each year. Learning languages has now become entirely voluntary in England I believe, so the study of languages here has declined just as the world has become more of a global marketplace.
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  6334.  @janeza382  I don't understand your English very well. It is a language that is a basis for many other languages such as Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and others, and it influenced English, German and other languages. Knowing Latin makes it easier to understand and learn these other languages and to work out the meanings of many words in these languages even when you haven't learned those languages, and Latin is used a lot in science for naming and classification of plants and animals, for naming elements and in medicine. It's used for accessing original historical texts and in archaeology. It was once a common language of Europe which all nations could use to communicate and it was also once the language of the church. It was the language that preserved learning in the 'dark ages' when much learning was lost outside of the church. It gives access to original Roman classical texts. Rome was much influenced by Greek civilisation and Western civilisation was influenced by Roman. I don't see where romanticism comes into it or what damage you are referring to.
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  6335.  @igorribicic8809  I'm not sure where you are talking about, but In the UK schools called 'public schools' are not funded by the state. They are private. State funded schools are just called state schools. Public (Private) schools are more likely to be the ones routinely offering Latin and Ancient Greek languages.
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  6336.  @jessecancelmo7635  This rank and file person took Latin, because I was at a Catholic Grammar school, though I had to pass the 11+ to get there.
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  6337. More money, more power, world domination.
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  6338. The time focused on the ' la la la I'm not listening but speaking the most' woman, meant that the interview didn't get round to the issue of traceability (or lack of traceability) of these guns which is a unique factor about them in comparison with access to guns already available in shops. Also how can they be detected in public places such as concerts, schools or political rallies? Metal detectors do not work on plastic.
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  6339. Is it a competition to see how crazy you can get and still get people to believe you?
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  6340. David's admiration of creating a peaceful kingdom through violence but being essentially fair makes me surprised that he doesn't see those qualities in William the conqueror.
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  6341. I hope voters will punish these word salad merchants in future.
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  6342. At 15:50 all the men at the front table have cats.
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  6343.  @dmg1866  Using polonium left a trackable trail all the way back to Moscow.
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  6344.  @01claudia1  'Sell outs' is an odd phrase for opposition in a democracy. Democracy allows for that. Dictatorship however.....
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  6345.  Milan Knoeps  Novichok might still kill him. He's not out of a coma yet. He was lucky there was someone with medical knowledge on the plane when he was taken ill, who took action to try and mitigate the effects, and the plane made an emergency landing and the crew ensured that there was an ambulance waiting to take him to hospital. He was lucky.
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  6346.  @OrwellsHousecat  Why noy give women the choice though?
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  6347.  @OrwellsHousecat  I'm not minimising the problem of rape in western countries but women do not want fear to control their lives and expect justice when crimes are committed against them. The presumption in english law is innocent until proven guilty. I think you must have missed the latest announcement by the Taliban on female education. I'll look for it on youtube and post the link here if I can.
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  6348.  @OrwellsHousecat  Not so. Of reported rapes, many do not result in conviction for the man. Look up the stats on that. It seems the Taliban have announced segregation for men and women in education. That is their culture o.k, but the key question is, what will men and women be taught? Will it be to the same standard and cover the same subjects e.g. subjects other than religion, that will allow them to acquire the skills to get good jobs? There are still many girls who are not back at school. The Taliban closed a lot of schools for girls.
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  6349.  @OrwellsHousecat  So what should happen to your way of thinking, to men in the west who are accused of rape? 'Effective solutions' which involve restricting the freedom of women, are not acceptable to women. In any case women under your rules are not protected. They can still be treated appallingly by men, whether in their own households or by those in authority with powers to behave badly to women.
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  6350. I seem to remember that leaving but staying in the customs union lost by only 1 vote and since then Boris has lost one member so he's one vote down now. That policy could probably get through if put to the commons again now.
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  6351.  @eddykelly4082 Turncoat? I seem to remember that Boris Johnson wrote a newspaper article about why we should remain in the EU just before he joined the leave campaign (which he reckoned was his best chance of becoming P.M.) Anyway it's no good assuming that everyone who voted for Brexit voted for no deal. The Leave campaign Manifesto (pages 3 and 30) said we would have a deal.
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  6352.  @eddykelly4082  I don't remember anyone saying we leave with or without a deal until after the deal was rejected by Parliament, and that was late in the day because May didn't consult with Parliament until her deal was made.
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  6353.  @bushwhacked7112  A lot of those people may work in the NHS. Swings and roundabouts.
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  6354. They will take it if you don't give it.
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  6355.  @TheSwinners94  There is a time to recognise when fighting on is tantamount to suicide. If there's one thing Afghanistan needs it's stability and the hope that the Taliban will live up to their promises. Unfortunately that will still mean a lot of restrictions for women.
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  6356.  @thaintthaint8317  May you stay safe.
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  6357. Trump and media like Fox media must take their share of the blame for knowingly spreading the lies that these people believed.
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  6358. Look at the guy asleep to the left of Heseltine. Who is he? Only turned up for the expenses? He woke up at 2:26.
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  6359. I think Trump might argue that the stock market collapse is due to fear of a Biden win. That's what conservatives usually do if there's a collapse close to an election, blame it on their opponent.
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  6360. But it's all waffle. What does she actually say about how the economy will work after a hard Brexit, what the costs may be, and who it will affect. It won't affect people from wealthy families like her but it will affect ordinary voters.
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  6361.  @Jennyeq  You can only do what you can with the health budget Westminster gives Wales and why is Wales's Covid rate so high? Are people not paying attention to mask wearing, social distancing and hand washing? Are vaccination rates where they should be?
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  6362. This is overblown. It was a joke. They were jealous because he they were hungry watching him. Lighten up.
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  6363. That thumbnail looks like an image of an Egyptian mummy that I've seen. I think it was Ramses II. These fear-mongering videos are just clickbait it seems.
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  6364.  Kevin Burrow  Do you need to be told?
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  6365. Yep, they will be free to drop our standards after the end of 2020.
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  6366.  @joancooley1387  I know. He made his mistakes but they weren't criminal ones like this government shoving billions of wasted pounds to his friends and cronies. He never tried to undermine democracy either.
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  6367.  @jschreiber6461  This government wasted £37bn on a test and trace system that did not work. Additionally, over another £20 bn was dispensed to companies of friends and supporters in non competitive contracts that were not published as required by law and much of which was wasted on equipment that was inadequate and unusable. Many of these companies were new 'pop ups' with no previous relevant experience that merely acted as middle men buying cheaply from China and making a stonking profit out of the taxpayer. More millions were wasted on furlough fraud that the Chancellor refused to investigate or claim back. Now they are giving £70bn to a company with 2 employees with poor financial backgrounds to turn Cornwall into a net zero carbon area. Net zero carbon looks likely to be the next rip-off and fraud area.
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  6368.  @joancooley1387  The£ billions handed to Tory donors, friends and supporters to buy Covid equipment under non-competitive contracts that have never been published, as required by law, that was down to Boris. He was in charge. Many of these companies were just pop ups run by a few people with no relevant health experience who merely acted as middle men and bought cheaply from China, often buying equipment that was sub standard and could not be used, and making stonkingly outrageous profits out of UK taxpayers in the process.
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  6369.  @joancooley1387  It's a good thing that Sunak left if he could not in conscience follow what Boris wanted. The PM and Chancellor are the 2 most important positions in government. I don't think Boris cares about anyone or anything other than himself and he blinds people to that because of his charm. He's also quite willing to break the law and appoint people who are willing to do the same and are incompetent also. That can't continue. If the government breaks the law when it wants to, why should anyone else feel bound to abide by the law? What's needed is someone competent who cares enough to get us out of this mess, not just caring about bribing the voters once every 4 or 5 years.
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  6370.  @joancooley1387  Yes, They've got themselves into a pickle I don't think they can really get out of now.
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  6371.  @joancooley1387  I must admit I'm not a Tory voter - never have been, so I look forward to a change of regime before they do too much more damage.
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  6372.  @danielbentham758  It looks to be equal if the Alliance Party is counted as non partisan. Sinn Fein + SDLP = 35 seats. DUP, + UUP + TUV = 35 seats and there is one 'people before profit' MLA. He would seem non aligned.
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  6373.  @danielbentham758  I counted the 2 independent unionists to get to 35 and since the alliance party is non partisan that means the voters in those areas are not voting for unionist parties. Here's where I got the figures from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Northern_Ireland_Assembly_election
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  6374.  @danielbentham758  But is the alliance anti-protocol, and against participating in the Stormont Executive? That's the point, and I don't think they are so on those matters they don't line up with the DUP..
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  6375.  @stevebbuk  Held up in what sense and why?
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  6376.  @stevebbuk  Because Arlene Foster, DUP leader at the time, refused to investigate fraudulent government payments in NI, in which the DUP was very likely implicated. b I agree it's bad for anyone to collapse Stormont, but the DUP voted for the NI protocol that they now object to, and they can't have economic, only political, grounds for objection since the protocol gave NI an economic advantage over the rest of the UK.
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  6377.  @stevebbuk  In favour of NI who benefit from easy access to the EU market as well as access to the UK market. NI's economy is the one doing best of all UK countries under Brexit because of the NI protocol. If the DUP didn't like it they should not have signed up to it in the first place
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  6378.  @Drifty40  First of all the NI protocol has no bearing on anyone's nationality culture or currency as Tory Ministers have confirmed. It's about trade. The government was offered it by the EU in Brexit withdrawal negotiations and accepted it. It was approved through the UK Parliament and the DUP supported the government in that vote. Once the UK overall had voted to leave the EU in the 2016 Referendum, we were going to be treated the same as other third countries and that meant there had to be border controls. The GFA ruled out having those on the island of Ireland. NI's economy is doing better under the NI protocol than any other UK country since Brexit. It offered NI the best of both worlds. The DUP don't like it because they feel a United Ireland might make more sense to people now. They were hoping for a border in Ireland that would make a United Ireland less likely. In other words their objection is political not economic but they voted for it so they got themselves into their own pickle. Sinn Fein removed themselves from the NI Assembly because of a financial fraud scandal that the DUP and Assembly leader, Arlene Foster, refused to investigate, most likely because colleagues and supporters were implicated. The NI Executive should not be subject to stop, start, stop like that because the members are paid to represent the people on a much wider range of issues. There is no majority clamour in NI over the protocol. Most people are content and want it fully implemented. Some tweaking may be possible if the parties take a reasonable attitude to the EU in negotiations and stop grandstanding for political reasons. Time for the UK side to grow up.
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  6379. *than
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  6380. * confuses. Perhaps they thought he was a Quasi Kwarteng.
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  6381. More about adding drama and feeding the public's thirst for salacious material in order to sell the show. (Follow the money).
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  6382. Trump never seems to follow laws or due-process does he? How on earth has he got away with it for so long? What a crook!
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  6383. Act in haste, repent at leisure.
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  6384. That's the non humorous way of seeing it, by someone who's not a comedian.
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  6385. Putin is delusional.
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  6386. Get rid of the back stop or we'll shoot ourselves in the foot - so there!
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  6387. The man on the right in the red shirt seemed like a seasoned believer rather than an undecided..
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  6388.  @TheDrakeEquation1221  I think the human race has a record of progress. I mean we're not all still living and thinking like cave people so there's no reason to think that further progress isn't possible.
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  6389.  @TheDrakeEquation1221  I like the progress that Scandinavian countries have achieved. They regularly come high up in the happiness index too.
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  6390.  Jake Sangria  No I don't think any of those things but I think you are being selective about the sources of violence you cite.
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  6391.  Jake Sangria  They are not vilifying half of the country, unless you think that half of the country is racist, in which case I'd say you are vilifying half of the country.
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  6392.  Jake Sangria  Bollocks except for the Trump part.
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  6393. I didn't see AOC in this video.
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  6394. Everyone might want to live like Sweden but if it happens in the present way, the world won't bear it and the destruction will be horrendous. What does it matter if you have nice things in your house, if, when you step outside it, the air is horrible and damages your lungs, the animals are sick and dying, the vegetation is dying, and the water is polluted. There is no choice but to go eco friendly.
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  6395. Why are the Covid figures displayed different from this https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/? They seem to be understated.
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  6396. * rages on not wages on. Dear o dear!
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  6397. Wrong
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  6398.  @solomonsolomon9782  Wrong
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  6399. Can't end the war if Putin's determined on his aggression and has no will to engage in peace talks. I don't think he cares about the economic impact of sanctions on his own country. Dictators like him are not accountable to their populations.
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  6400.  @humourless682  it's not true that there were NATO bases in Ukraine when Putin attacked it and there are no NATO bases there now. You have been fed false information. Not surprising because the media in Russia is now heavily controlled and censored and just putting out propaganda. There are some NATO ships in the Black Sea now in response to Russia's aggressive blockade there. As for the vaccine, (I presume you mean the Covid vaccine), I've personally benefitted from that. No one was forced to have it, only encouraged to do so. Populations are not 100% vaccinated.
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  6401.  @martinralphwaiwai8018  Are you referring to Putin whose plans didn't work?
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  6402. What a handsome boy.
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  6403. Only the government can properly fund the NHS. Public donations can't be used to expand services or increase staff numbers. That's not allowed. They can be used to buy medical equipment provided there are staff to operate it, and to make things more comfortable for patients.
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  6404. Which bit is bullshit?
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  6405. The whole point of the exhibition is that it does not matter what you wear. Clothes are not the reason for rape.
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  6406. This makes me sick. What beasts.
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  6407. He trots out the same old easy excuse. He can't believe anyone is actually professional about what they do because he doesn't know the meaning of the word himself. Everyone who disagrees with him is biased and fake news in his mind.
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  6408. Musk doesn't sound very numerate, for all his billions.
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  6409. Sore loser.
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  6410. Musk doesn't trust Trump?
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  6411. This is comedy but it's not degrading any nationalities in particular. Tracey Ullman's show also pokes fun at lots of British politicians, Monarchy, and character types.
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  6412. Boris broke the law more often. They're not a very law-abiding party these days.
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  6413. Which would help to reduce refugees from climate disasters perhaps. They will probably be doing some cost/benefit analysis.
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  6414.  @benghiskahn3673  Lots of money was wasted or lost to fraud during Covid. Billions and billions. We borrowed to fund this waste and loss and now we're having to pay back. It costs more to be out of the EU as all the economies of scale are lost, and extra infrastructure was required to manage borders and trade rules. Sunak as Chancellor should have insured the government against interest rate rises but failed to do so despite being advised to by the civil service, as was normal, so we are paying higher interest on the national debt now. I'm sure there are more reasons but those are the first that come to mind.
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  6415. But it's true there's no clear Remain voice in the debate as structured and 48% of people voted Remain even in the Referendum.
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  6416. @Nelly Smiggers You have to eat food. You don't have to engage in risky behaviour that causes you to catch Covid.
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  6417. *Corbyn. Why?
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  6418.  @videolad3057  I like to challenge ignorance. It scares me that the ignorant can vote us into oblivion.
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  6419.  @DeadRed11  A different approach was first taken before WW2. Don't you know your history? At first countries tried to appease Hitler. He was allowed to take over Austria with no opposition from other countries. Then he took over the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia with no opposition from other countries. He was warned not to invade Poland or it would mean war and he ignored that and invaded Poland triggering WW2. In any case you can't negotiate with someone who intends to commit genocide and whose aim was to have more lebensraum for Germany to expand into.
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  6420. Darren Grimes said David Starkey was his hero and in interviewing him, never challenged David Starkey over his 'damn blacks' comment.
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  6421. Only having to pay for part of the work is one up on homeowners who are freeholders and pay for it all.
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  6422.  @scottm5425  I thought Scotland was on top of Covid now and had plans for getting back to normal. Maybe too slow for your liking. Check what Stugeon is saying. we don't get much Scottish news down here but I know she was talking about it recently.
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  6423. @Phoenix People don't understand that the reason hospitals weren't packed is because normal work was largely suspended so that hospitals could deal with covid and covid patients were kept in particular areas to avoid contaminating whole hospitals. Staff had to be diverted to treat Covid patients either at their own hospitals or other designated ones. A&E visits were also down by as much as 40% as people either didn't really need to go there or were afraid of catching covid. Then there's the fact that with people at home and pubs closed, work and alcohol fuelled accidents would be down, also street crime like stabbings.
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  6424.  @krielle3877  Some of these will end up in A&E but some will be dealt with by social care. A lot of people may be drinking while watching tv, and that's a safer place to be drunk. There may be a lot of people suffering abuse who aren't known about at this time and don't appear in hospital. Housework has always been done. It shouldn't result in more accidents. Suicides won't be going to hospital though some attempted suicides might. I'm sure some stats will be issued eventually that will show what's been happening.
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  6425.  @krielle3877  The government may distort statistics or present them in self serving ways but the people who produce statistics such as the ONS are professional and don't allow political tampering with the source statistics. It's always possible to go to the source. If you have faith in nothing then there is no truth, or if there is you won't find it or will never be sure you've found it. Science is validated through the fact that experiments and results of research are independently verifiable and repeatable.
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  6426.  @AsimKhan-ch2mo  That's a bit shocking. She should speak to the doctors. I guess she's not one of the staff who deals with covid patients.
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  6427.  @krielle3877  250k and 2 millions predictions were if there were no lockdowns. I suppose if you get Covid 19 you'll be relying on prayer and no medical help in line with your beliefs.
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  6428.  @prince57able  Have you actually read the comments?
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  6429.  @carveh13  Hmm! I'm trying to think. I work on the basis that things will usually get worse and plan for that. I've not been wrong on that score. When someone points me to genuine facts that show I'm wrong about something, I apologise but it doesn't happen often because I like to keep up with events. Also I usually look up facts myself before I comment or I know them from looking things up previously or because I've worked in close connection with the NHS. It's easy to find reputable sources of information if you have the desire to look for them. I'm also a NHS patient at the moment.
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  6430.  @tonytucker7359  Are you related to Little Tommy Tucker who sang for his supper?
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  6431.  @wattage2007  Well, at least you don't have a bad Covid problem now. England went through the mill what with Boris flip flopping and changing tactics all the time.
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  6432.  @wattage2007  That surprises me. If you are referring to me, my favourites list is open. Click on playlists. I think the no content message refers to the fact that I haven't created or uploaded any videos of my own.
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  6433.  @wattage2007  Maybe not, but who is better equipped to judge than doctors? In any case the 'excess deaths figure is independent corroborating evidence.
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  6434.  @tonytucker7359 No I don't know him, except by his reputation, but I imagine his surname is rhyming slang.
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  6435.  @anildoolah3442  The US is planning to attack the Houthis.
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  6436. Oh you voted democrat? That counts as a fraudulent vote.
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  6437.  @jillosler9353  I don't know who your comment is about, but if it's aimed at me, I am not a man and have been heavily pregnant.
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  6438.  @melissaclark1051  Are you responding to my relation of the Yogi Berra quote? He was known for speaking nonsense at times. Dead people would not be able to go to his funeral. Anyway I think funerals are for the benefit of the living, the mourners. The dead would have no interest in them as you say.
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  6439. He abused her while married to her and they had been separated. That's not cheating. It's moving on.
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  6440. Why would anyone want to decimate the economy. Everyone suffers from that? David Icke is bonkers. He believes any old conspiracy theory. It's a sad day when people have been fed so much misinformation and so many lies by politicians and tabloid newspapers, that they can no longer tell truth from lies and begin to believe that everything is a conspiracy.
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  6441.  @reamannmacbiatiagh2057  If it was intended as a weapon, you'd expect it to be more effective. It's not nearly as bad as the Spanish flu of 1918 and it tends to kill mainly the older or weaker sections of the population, and why would it be released on the population of the aggressor and damage the world economy. No-one gains. Even your scientist uses the words 'it's my belief' or 'I believe' in connection with the 'weaponisation', so it's basically just a theory that doesn't make much sense.
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  6442.  @reamannmacbiatiagh2057  The 'new world order' they are referring to is a wider gap between rich and poor. Karl Marx analysed and predicted more of that in the 19th century. There was a wide gap then. The struggle since has been between those who try and press for more equality and those who do not want that. It's nothing to do with David Icke and his more outlandish ideas involving aliens of 5G masts. The way the capitalist economy works, if unregulated, is towards an ever widening gap between rich and poor. At one time the workers of the west were able to have a good standard of living because the west could exploit low cost countries in other parts of the world and buy raw materials very cheap and it paid well enough for skilled labour, even to some extent for unskilled because the knowledge and capacity for manufacturing was all in the West. Globalisation of markets and the internet has meant international competition from low cost countries which puts competitive downwards pressure on workers' pay and conditions in the early industrialised world. It's a race to the bottom if we don't have and apply mechanisms to counteract that. Marx didn't think it was possible to counteract it. He thought revolution was inevitable but that seems ever more unlikely now as all the technology is in place to control people and suppress dissent or divert it onto false targets.
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  6443.  @reamannmacbiatiagh2057  I agree that there are probably too many of us alive now for the health of the planet and we encroach on the space for animals and destroy their habitat, their food sources and their numbers and more will become extinct because of us. We pollute the planet and raise its temperature. The best way to control our numbers would be via agreement and availability of contraception because in destroying and damaging the planet, ultimately we destroy and damage ourselves and especially the most vulnerable and poorest of us. The capitalist economic system provides many benefits for many though they are not fairly distributed, but also has damaging side effects and it relies on growth to survive, but growth means using up the planet's resources, which are often finite or not renewable at the speed at which we use them up. We will try our best to survive as is natural instinct but I think the planet will look different in 1000 years time, whether that's worse or better I'm not sure.
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  6444.  @reamannmacbiatiagh2057  I don't think you are crazy. I suppose we have to fight for greater democracy but corporates are good at buying politicians and fooling people into voting for those who protect corporate interests.
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  6445.  @reamannmacbiatiagh2057  But we don't have to vote for the corporately corrupted. Maybe one day we'll realise that. The disaster of the Coronavirus may cause people to realise.
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  6446.  @reamannmacbiatiagh2057  I think Bernie Sanders would have made a difference and maybe in future Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or others like them.
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  6447. Anyone but Tories or other right wig nutters.
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  6448.  @msmango6354  You should vote so you have a say. The non voting are just ignored in terms of trends, opinions etc.
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  6449. No they sent the Tories off there.
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  6450.  @ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588  I thought he meant, if people don't do it voluntarily. He's giving it a chance to work on a voluntary basis first.
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  6451. I doubt it because Labour will know (or quickly learn) that they can't behave like the Tories if they want to stay in power. I think housing problems will be quite a high priority for them.
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  6452. Respect needs to be earned.
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  6453. You had Brexit. You just didn't know what it was, and didn't like it when you got it, so now you deny that it ever happened.
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  6454.  @make_the_ukgreat_again638  People who have attention spans and like good quality drama, journalism, news, documentaries, nature programmes, history programmes etc etc etc.
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  6455.  @make_the_ukgreat_again638  Yes, You need say more. You need to back up your libel with some facts.
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  6456.  @make_the_ukgreat_again638  No they don't lie all the time. Tommy Robinson lies about Tommy Robinson and that's not even his real name (Stephen Yaxley Lennon).
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  6457.  @Useaname  Are you all lads then?
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  6458.  @make_the_ukgreat_again638  I expect everything is news to you - especially 'the news'. If you only read stuff that you agree with, you'll never learn anything.
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  6459.  @lottiepye6082  Yes, they could cut down on that sort of thing, but often they just stand in front of a photo of somewhere that a viewer has sent in. I also think the weather person goes somewhere where the BBC is already - for instance I've seen them at Wimbledon when the BBC is at Wimbledon covering the Wimbledon Tennis tournament and at Edinburgh when there were some commonwealth games there, so that would keep the costs down if they are basically hitching a ride with the rest of the crew.
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  6460. However that raises the hope that my asthma will improve.
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  6461.  @Kay-gw6vw  I always use a taxi for A&E visits. I gave up on ambulances since the Tories got hold of the service, but to be honest the bus lanes are reserved for buses, but I believe emergency vehicles can also use them, so it's not quite as bad as it could be.
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  6462.  @Kay-gw6vw  I don't use those taxi companies you mention. I use a local one that is cheaper. I've used them for years but more so for local hospital appointments during the Covid lockdowns. I don't go more than a mile or two in taxis, unless I'm off to a train station. If you are talking about Uber, it's well known for breaking local laws and Germany banned it from offering rides. The judge in the UK was not asked to rule whether TfL's decision was right but to judge whether Uber now met the conditions to be licensed again. The judge thought that as Uber used an App which TfL could monitor, it was now o.k for them to operate their taxi service again. He allowed it for 18 months. They had to pay TfL £374k though as part of the judgement. I think Khan's policy is trying to unclog roads in London by deterring traffic that doesn't really need to be using London's roads. However Covid lockdowns have meant far more delivery traffic is on the roads now as more people order goods online. I live on a main road so funnelling traffic onto main roads doesn't help me except that I'm told that it will eventually reduce traffic so that traffic will flow faster on those roads and not hang around pumping so much pollution. The other thing is that traffic will eventually all be electric. I'm sorry you are adversely affected by this. Your employer should really be bearing the cost but un-unionised labour suffers the worst and allowing so much competition in delivery services also does. Maybe if there was a Labour government in future there would be a rationalised delivery service with decent pay and involving less traffic on the roads. We can only hope. P.S I used to cycle but my asthma put an end to that.
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  6463.  @Kay-gw6vw  O.K End of.
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  6464.  @LayLoow  He's
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  6465. Have a Corona beer instead.
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  6466. EU countries started by saying the over 65s should not have the vaccine and dissing it. Merkel has not had it. Then they were worried that they weren't going to get enough vaccine so they tried to stop it being exported to the UK. Then when they got it, everything they said before about it put people off
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  6467. He looks a bit like a young Jimmy Page. What a loss to his family.
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  6468. Alison Weir wrote a good book about it but it's a history book not a novel
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  6469.  @alternativevoice2541  I'm aware of that. I did have heart monitoring which confirmed that for me. It confirmed what I was experiencing but there was no indication that it was a significant health problem, and I accept that. I've never felt ill with it or in pain. There can be different causes or no known cause. When I was young, in my teens, I used to get them about a day before menstruation and so I connected them with hormonal changes. Later in life I would get them after some asthma medication which had a heart stimulant effect but my body adapted to it and they didn't persist. Strong coffee will give me palpitations, or the initial stages of exercise. Sometimes now I think it may be down to age and tiredness, but sometimes there's no obvious cause. It doesn't bother me too much now. Getting stressed about it can make it worse.
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  6470.  @crazyratlady3438  I try to eat a diet that is good for vitamins and minerals. Looking up food that are high in magnesium, I can say I do include many of those in my diet. I'm feeling very well at the moment.
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  6471.  @Darkworldxl  I know we don't have long term data yet. We can only take decisions based on our current state of knowledge and factoring in our own personal circumstances. Our current state of knowledge would indicate that the risks from Covid, are higher than the risks from the vaccine, but I understand people who are concerned about possible long term effects that we don't yet know about. It's all a bit academic for me as I'm old enough now for it to be natural for me to die from something or other, so the vaccine seems less of a risk for me but I understand that younger and healthier people might take a different view. It's an imperfect world. Nothing is risk free and we sometimes have to make the best judgements we can for ourselves in the circumstances.
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  6472.  @supersurfer1  That describes most of the food people eat also, and all of the chemicals they are exposed to. There's a price for modern life and life is never risk free.
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  6473.  @selenacordeiro1458  I understand those concerns. It was o.k for me though. After the vaccines were available, statistically most of those ending up in hospital with serious or fatal illness had not been vaccinated so I don't think the dangers of the AZ vaccine outweighed the benefits. There's no evidence of that, though there are obviously risks to weigh up. There are no 100% risk free solutions though. Life is not risk free.
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  6474.  @selenacordeiro1458  Everyone I know who has had the vaccine has been alright too. I'm not doubting that thousands of people may have suffered some distressing effects but this has to be considered statistically and compared to the risks of the virus itself.
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  6475.  @selenacordeiro1458  I look at the stats also. I don't rely on my small group experience except when people tell me I'm doomed.
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  6476.  @selenacordeiro1458  *then
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  6477. Preserve us from all these men who want to make their countries 'great again'.
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  6478.  @Catubrannos  That's interesting. I would have thought the last 3 letters refer to the sea if you hadn't mentioned ea meant island.
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  6479. Not necessarily. She's fully asleep when it happens.
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  6480. It just goes to show that countries don't have to offer Trump anything, but just to re-announce previous offers in order to give Trump something he can wave at Maga as a 'victory' since Maga supporters are deeply ignorant.
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  6481.  @englishciderlover7347  Nope. That's what Tories like people to believe to keep themselves in power or sow apathy.
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  6482. His father taught him to be a winner by any means, fair or foul.
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  6483. The Black Sea is also a strategic place for Ukraine exports (not just for evacuating refugees) and Russia has been blockading that route.
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  6484. *did pursue
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  6485. I heard some of them explain that, and she did say Ilkla at least once.
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  6486. I don't remember them saying Brexit would have a cost during the Leave Campaign prior to the Brexit Referendum and they still want to put a spin on things, avoiding the truth. What does Frost say is the way forward out of these difficulties? He doesn't. He just says give it time.
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  6487.  @woodentie8815  It's hard when people feel strongly about things. They tend to miss the joke. Perhaps you should have used smiley emojis.
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  6488.  @DavidCodyPeppers.  In what respect, because we'll desperately need escapism?
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  6489. She may not realise how serious it could be. She will know enough to know it hurts to fall down.
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  6490. He keeps saying 'we are going to have' etc. It's all intention or wishlist at the moment.
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  6491. Trump can create chaos faster than the judges can stop him. He's avoiding doing anything through Congress and he's been elected President. He always made it clear he had no respect for voters, democratic apparatus, or the Constitution
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  6492. Don't be so silly.
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  6493.  @cumpanions8105  You are pig ignorant.
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  6494. He and Musk probably want to nick some gold from Fort Knox. He wants to go back to paper ballots because it's easier to fix and election with those
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  6495. If the NHS is keeping people in hospital, it's because they are not well. The NHS doesn't offer hospital beds for nothing. I hope Liz Kendall manages to visit the mental hospitals herself. Can they access hospital patients without the patients and doctors permissions?
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  6496.  @stephencollins9062  It might happen in the long run but there's no easy solution at the moment. Brexit and NI are not compatible and NI actually voted to stay in the EU.
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  6497. Yes, no vacuous meaningless statements - all is clear.
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  6498. Rock on Nigel? Now there's a good idea. Who should put the rock on him?
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  6499. He really is shameless.
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  6500.  @SC-mw2yc  That wasn't a point I missed. It was so self evident it didn't need comment but I will say that Plant and Page released an album in 1998. I think it was called 'Walking to Clarksville' but it didn't do as well as they'd hoped and they went their separate ways again, career-wise.
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  6501.  @andyhughes1776  Regret is about something that might have been different, but no one can avoid getting old.
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  6502.  @gil9417  I think he is happy enough at his age - happy with what he achieved and now that the pressure is off him but he still likes to play. None of the surviving members of Led Zep come across as bitter or grumpy or sad because of their age. Creative people can still get pleasure from being creative.
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  6503. @Veronica Rainone It's Vive La France
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  6504.  @tigerstripey4885  Where's the evidence for this stuff you keep making up?
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  6505.  @d0ntwi11fuup4  If you'd ever attended these vaccination sessions you'd know that these are not actors, and why would they need actors since there are so many real sessions that can be filmed. I've attended 3 so far. I'm guessing that you are one of the unvaccinated that hasn't ever seen one of these in real life.
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  6506.  @johnriggs4929  In the one opposite my place, there's a queue every day and I've seen it for weeks as I walk past it most days, and people are queueing on the outside of the building. Perhaps people in your are are not getting vaccinated much or there's enough room inside the building to contain a queue, or that centre is no longer being used for vaccinations. Why don't you ask, rather than cooking up conspiracy theories?
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  6507.  @johnriggs4929  P.S In the centre near me they allow for 'drop ins' as well as appointments. Maybe the centres near you are all about appointments, which would prevent queues. Who knows?
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  6508.  @johnriggs4929  My home, poppet. You're the one that is making up things based on not seeing what you expect to see - very shakey.
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  6509.  @wh0kn0ws1tc0uldbe  It depends what is meant by volunteers. You have tobe a qualified nurse to give vaccinations. I'm guessing it means they volunteered to work on Xmas day.
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  6510.  @d0ntwi11fuup4  No I'm not a troll and not lying, but this is getting tired now. Believe what you want it if makes you happy.
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  6511.  @d0ntwi11fuup4  Not.
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  6512. How is this 'man of peace' going to conquer Greenland? In Gaza he'll get Israel to do his dirty work for him.
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  6513.  @roseipk  I was only joking. I assumed it must be because the guy who worked there was also touching it.
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  6514. Why would anyone ever vote Tory again?
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  6515. If they haven't worked out how it will be paid for, that could bring about another Truss type crash and further interest rate rises. Deja Vu.
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  6516. David McConville. Spot on analogy.
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  6517. Fuarian. Yes, People used to resign when caught telling a lie.It was a big deal to do it in public office. Now people just carry on, like, whatever! Standards and principles have gone.
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  6518. Why do you bet that?
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  6519. Happily they were very fortunate. Are you watching a different video? Tom Hiddleston isn't in this.
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  6520. It was the distribution of the votes in the FPTP system that made the difference. This election people voted more tactically to get rid of the Tories. Jeremy Corbyn may have mainly got a lot more votes, and bigger majorities in constituencies that were already Labour ones.
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  6521.  @ponygirl6258  Under the Taliban, before recent times, there were many girls who were illiterate.
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  6522.  @stevepal8432  O.K I don't know so much about Prince Charles or how long he had it for. The Royals keep their affairs more private, but from what I heard it doesn't sound as though he got it as badly as Bojo. I can't believe he'd just make that up. He was around and about a lot beforehand, meeting and greeting, and images show he kept sticking his hand out to shake hands and then remembering not to at the last second, but who knows whether he shook any or not. It's interesting that Camilla didn't get it. Perhaps they are not as close a couple as people might think.
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  6523.  @spitymaeh  I think the sheep ( not sheeps, the singular and plural are the same) are the ones who believe in lizzard people.
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  6524. Yep. All downhill from now on.
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  6525.  @timcomley3241  Sadly it's always the worst most crap politicians that seem to win. I blame the voters.
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  6526. Those are all countries built on immigration.
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  6527.  @LiberalismisDying  Evidence of that? Evidence that will stand up in court? There is none. Even Fox News hosts privately, in their emails, admitted it was bullshit and now they are being sued by the voting machine companies they lied about.
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  6528. It's depressing listening to Trump sell his snake oil and people are still buying it.
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  6529. Golf clubs are not designed as deadly weapons.
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  6530. @tikkiu7345 They may be effective as weapons but they are not designed as weapons.
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  6531. water baby. I think you mean "concerned to increase equality of opportunity". Both programmes were great by the way.
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  6532. Luca Blavatsky's comment is silly and patently untrue. Your comment is equally silly and patently untrue. However culture is a constantly evolving thing and cross cultural influences have happened all throughout history. It's not like it's something you lock in a box to stop people from "stealing" it.
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  6533. water baby. I meant what I said "equality of opportunity". I suppose "equality of outcome" would be a possible result of "equality of opportunity" but not necessarily. Anyway Shakespeare doesn't have great claims to historical accuracy either and it is a drama not a history programme. I think the BBC just wants wider audiences to enjoy and get engaged with Shakespeare including abroad in places like the USA which they can sell to. The French recently did a series about their own King Louis XIV called "Versailles", and they cast English actors in the lead parts and did it in English so that they could sell it to more countries abroad. In drama you have to suspend disbelief anyway. You imagine people as the characters they are playing.
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  6534. No one cheated. The lying party have won the vote in Virginia and you get what you voted for.
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  6535.  @marcuspd477  Fantasy. Trump was ahead in the early count but not by the time all votes were received and counted, that's all. No one has found evidence of fraud that would convince a court. Even areas under Republican governance could find no evidence of fraud. Only the mad loons keep insisting on it without evidence.
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  6536.  @marcuspd477  Evidence please.
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  6537.  @marcuspd477  It's you who has no self thought and believes just what suits your purpose. Socialists are not the elite. The wealthy elite of the world who control capitalism (as far as it can be controlled) are not socialists. They would not be that wealthy if they were. Trump is one of the elite, and everything they do is to benefit themselves. The rest is window dressing designed to get the saps to vote for them.
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  6538.  @marcuspd477  Anyone with a brain is anti-Trump. I own as much as I need and I'm happy. I'm not greedy but I wish the system to be fairer so there is not an ever widening gap between rich and poor. Those countries high up in the happiness index don't have such a wide gap and are happier because they feel society is fairer and they feel more like part of a community, than a very divided, angry, hate filled nation.
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  6539. Both things are important but knife crime has been normalised in the culture now, because it wasn't tackled early on and austerity measures and other factors have exacerbated it.
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  6540. People nationally sometimes resent strikers in London whom they think earn more than in the rest of the country, but when you compare earnings to the price of buying or renting in London, the wages are not high in real terms.
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  6541. The energy companies making a fortune are the wholesale companies, not the retail companies.
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  6542. Except that Stalin didn't need any excuse to get rid of people.
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  6543. As Diego Maradonna would say 'It's the hand of God'.
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  6544. Patrick Minford, the economist who is strongly for a hard Brexit, cheerfully admits that it will destroy British farming and British manufacturing. Apart from letting cheap food imports in from outside the EU, British farmers who export beef and lamb to the EU (to France for instance)will face a tariff of 40% which means they will no longer be able to compete and France will get its meat from other countries within the EU who are just waiting to take advantage of a hard Brexit. That's only one example of the effects of a hard Brexit.
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  6545. Hearsay and made up nonsense by a Tory MP and Tory papers desperate to distract from 'partygate'. There's bulky furniture between her and Boris in Parliament so he would not be able to see if she did.
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  6546. And your medical qualifications are?
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  6547. Why is Italy hit so hard? Is it because they are so sociable? I thought they were in lockdown.
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  6548.  @FishtownRec  Methane comes from farts also. Doesn't matter which end the gas comes out.
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  6549. Perhaps Musk fears the decisions Trump might make when he's not there.
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  6550.  Read Siege By James Mason  You think the Tories will look after people? Dream on.
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  6551. She knows he empowers women (at least those he is related to) as he certainly empowered her by promoting her to a role beyond her capacity.
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  6552. It's not true that top officials have never accepted the vote to leave the EU . Both government and opposition parties have said they respect the result of the vote and will act on it but it's not easy to leave the EU. The choice is, walk away and fall off a cliff edge in terms of the damage that would instantly do to the economy since the UK has been in the EU for many years with many beneficial arrangements attached to that as well as things people don't like, OR ,arrange a deal to leave but the EU holds the higher cards here and has a stated aim of making sure that it's not seen as advantageous to leave the EU, so that other countries won't try to leave afterwards. The government is trying to get the best deal it can but many Brexiteers are ignorant of the realities or have their heads in the clouds in terms of what is possible. The UK was always going to experience some pain whether it stayed in or left the EU.
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  6553. It's become the land of exploitation.
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  6554. This narrator's accent is odd. It sounds American but his speech includes glottal stops which are very British
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  6555. I had it for the first time in January 2023. Just a headache and tiredness for about 10 days. I believe it was the milder Omicron variant but things can change in future.
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  6556.  @hectorbrown656  I don't know why he can't be deported if he arrived under false pretences. The odd one one is bound to slip through in such a scramble but that's the nature of the chaos in these situations though I think the authorities have done their best under the circumstances to weed out any undesirables.
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  6557. Didn't Kwarteng also remove the cap on bankers' bonuses?
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  6558. Feds? That's American. No Feds in the UK.
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  6559.  @cargumdeu  No it's because many MPs realised over that period, as more information came to light, that Brexit would do nothing for Britain other than damage the economy, hurt ordinary people and lose jobs. Cameron was so sure of winning the 2016 Referendum for Remain that he did no preparation for a Leave victory and hadn't in any way worked out what that would mean for Britain or how we should leave. He had no plan and no information was given to the British, public. He just resigned so he didn't have to deal with it. Theresa May didn't give out information either because she thought it was best to keep everything secret while she was negotiating and then, when starting to run out of time, she realised MPs weren't happy with what she'd negotiated and were more sceptical about Brexit itself since they'd had time to inform themselves more about it. Boris inherited this situtation and just tried to bludgeon through a hard Brexit. When that failed he got and presented a withdrawal agreement to Parliament which got to the second reading, but then he pulled it out himself when MPs wanted more than 3 days to read and consider it.
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  6560.  @stueymorris  A Kakistocracy!
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  6561. I think Mark Rylance conveyed that by his acting and also that he couldn't allow his expression to be too revealing before Henry but Henry's not the most perceptive man.
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  6562. They haven't ignored their leave voters. They are going to give people a vote on a better deal or remain, so they are not ignoring any voters, just giving them a further vote on something more specific than last time.
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  6563.  @benh5093  Well it would seem that way to an uncritical Russell Brand fan.
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  6564. Christine Anderson said Pfizer's answer was clear, so everyone knows they've been lied to, but what was Pfizer's answer and to what question? I didn't hear that crucial bit of information unless I missed it. Interestingly about a year ago I heard this Indian news channel's report on Pfizer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYIJxoh7gqw&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=95
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  6565. Is that journalist on the left trying to invent a new sign language? The hand movements are so distracting
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  6566.  @foxbor0  Diversionary tactics.
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  6567. Probably Van Tam doesn't normally give vaccinations. He was just slow to pull the needle out.
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  6568.  @jasonwoods3711  It's a pretty simple procedure and Tam must have learned it sometime in his career. Maybe he's just lingering in there for the sake of a good camera shot.
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  6569.  @jasonwoods3711  Vaccination in the UK is being done according to a priority of age ranges. Hancock's age range is now due to receive vaccines. If he'd done it previously people would have shouted 'Why is he getting priority? He's exerting privilege'. (I can't believe I'm defending this awful man against conspiracy theorists but not everything is a conspiracy, you know).
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  6570.  @jasonwoods3711  True. It's good to have a healthy scepticism and to research on independent fact sites. My assumption was based on the fact that so many sceptics seem to get their information from conspiracy sites. Sorry if I misjudged you.
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  6571.  @jasonwoods3711  Forgive a correction. It's accepted not excepted. Excepted is used when you exclude something from whatever it is you are referring to.
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  6572.  @jasonwoods3711  You're right on both counts but 'excepted' is similar in meaning to 'excluded'. People also get confused between the words affect and effect. The way I remember the difference is that the 'a' and the 'e' at the beginning relate to the Latin where 'a' means to or towards, and 'e' means from or away from.
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  6573.  @jasonwoods3711  Very well done, except you need a capital letter at the start of the sentence and for the word 'I' and you don't need an apostrophe in the word 'its'.
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  6574. She is the Chair of the ERG group. I think it's Sunak's attempt to hold the Tory Party together but she'll be a disaster.
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  6575. I don't think Boris understands it himself.
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  6576. No one ever said the vaccines were 100% effective, and the vaccinated can still catch Covid, but the vaccines do seem to have a protective effect in reducing the risk of serious illness, hospital admissions, and deaths. Most of the hospital admissions, serious illness and deaths are among the unvaccinated now.
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  6577.  @siriusley13  Thanks for that info. Fred Soundfriend's channel does indeed seem empty.
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  6578. Don't mix up accent with dialect, they are different. Britain still has many accents but not so many dialect words. Creature is still pronounced in Ireland as in this video (Shakespeare's time -17th century) and tea is pronounced in Ireland as in Dr Jonson's time (18th century - tay) at least it was in the first half of the 20th century by people who'd not travelled much from their local area.
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  6579. Perhaps he thinks he's one of the elite that the Tories protect.
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  6580.  @johnsmith3152  Then you'll have Charles.
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  6581.  @cameronneff6002  The Socialists didn't give people anything because they haven't been in power in the US. You have to vote for an elect people before they can do anything for you.
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  6582.  @cameronneff6002  Socialism doesn't exist in those countries. Why would you think they are socialist? The countries with mixed capitalist and socialist policies that come high in happiness surveys are the scandinavian countries - Norway, Sweden, Denmark. Collectively through taxes, if people vote for it, there can be a health system that looks after everyone and the very vulnerable can be looked after.
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  6583.  @cameronneff6002  I know Russia was communist up until Gorbachev took over. I know it isn't communist now. Putin sold off all the state assets. China is a state capitalist dictatorship. It's not really communist. It doesn't believe in equality and it does have private companies https://www.chinacheckup.com/blogs/articles/how-many-companies-in-china. I am talking about democratic socialism. You don't seem to know much about that or which countries can be described as that. I suggest you do some research on google.
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  6584.  @cameronneff6002  There is no pure capitalist country. If there was there would be a revolution because of the conditions it would cause. Capitalist countries to a greater or lesser extent already have some welfare or social democratic policies to prop them up. There are people willing to work who can't find jobs or can't find them quickly enough to manage financially in the interim and there are people who can't work because they are sick or disabled through no fault of their own. People can have children before disaster strikes them. Scandinavian countries manage to have good economies as well as good welfare systems and come high up on happiness surveys. Going down the route of leaving people to starve is barbaric but I understand there are plenty of Americans who would be quite content with such a system. There will be people who try to 'play the system' but it's quite a tough system in the UK already. If you don't apply for jobs every day on benefits, you are sanctioned by losing benefits for weeks and if you don't accept a job offer you are sanctioned by losing benefits. There are even targets for sanctioning by benefits offices. One poor guy who was an ex-soldier with mental health problems and type one diabetes was sanctioned by having his benefits cut off because he didn't attend a meeting he wasn't notified of (and that's not unusual). Unable to pay his electricity bills or buy food, he was unable to keep his insulin cool (as required) in a fridge and lack of food played havoc with his diabetes and he died from poorly controlled diabetes. There are lots of cases like that. It's no easy life for anyone claiming benefits.
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  6585.  @cameronneff6002  We have the benefit of the NHS (National Health Service) because people are willing to pay for it through taxation, and it's not just about you paying for other people. It's about others also paying for you if you should need help. It's a social insurance system really where all the admin is done for you and the worry about being able to afford treatment if you need it is taken away. That is really worth having. There will always be some people who try to cheat a welfare system but that doesn't mean that overall it isn't worth doing. Basic education is free (primary and secondary (high school), paid for by taxpayers and that's worth doing too. Imagine what society would be like if only a small percentage of people were educated. Cuba doesn't operate in any level playing field because the USA has kept up a trade embargo against it for many decades now. Nevertheless they have achieved remarkable results in education and healthcare considering that, and when you compare it to some other countries in the region, and it wouldn't leave you to die without treatment as in the US if you have no insurance and no means of paying. Greece only voted in a socialist government after they got into financial difficulty - partly their own fault - the Greeks are big tax avoiders, so they could not afford their welfare state, and there was no efficient enforcement of tax collection, and it was partly a result of being in the EU which forces countries to meet certain financial requirements that suit some countries more than others. Hard working people supporting themselves are the backbone of society and families, I agree, but that doesn't mean there can't be sensible arrangements to improve life and society for all, without being too much of a burden on working individuals. You don't mention that the US keeps spending billions of taxpayers money on wars, without asking you whether that's how you want your money spent. There are choices to be made when it comes to what to spend taxpayers money on.
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  6586. @AL AL Well their lives are like a soap opera for some. That's all i meant. They do charity work, support good causes, represent Britain symbolically, engage in parades and traditional ceremonies, and participate in a bit of farming etc.
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  6587. *are deliberately avoiding. It's been a decision of the government not to co-operate with media that have been critical of government. It's an attempt to pressure the media to become their lap dogs - just like Boris and his cronies banned critical newspapers from attending press briefings at Downing St. The rest of the press, to their credit, walked out when that happened. Even Boris's supporters in the press could not stomach his attack on press freedom.
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  6588. @Wally Davidson Evidence or fake news?
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  6589. Boris is ignorant. The Unions actually created the Labour Party in order to represent working people. As for Theresa Villiers at 1:39. I seem to recall that Chase Farm A&E which might have taken some of that strain, was closed down under their watch,in November 2013. The internet informs patients that those in Chase Farm needing A&E would be transferred to Barnet Hospital (among others).
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  6590. A new one appeared locally. Very convenient for me and I had a very nice haircut but I saw no one else in the shop the whole time I was there. Can't believe the guy was a criminal though. He was very nice. About 30. Quite gentle. I'd say he was probably a graduate but knew how to cut hair. I don't think his English was more than basic as he wasn't really chatty though asked some polite questions. The 2 advertised hairdressers were him and a woman. I didn't see her though. Not surprising as the business was not busy. Charged £35 for wash, haircut and blow try. I stopped going to my regular hairdresser during Covid lockdowns and then realised I could cut my own hair reasonably well by bringing it to the front on both sides. I'd then ask a family member to look at the back to check it was evenly cut. It generally was, except for a few wisps of hair that needed trimming. My regular hairdresser was charging £60 for a wash haircut and blow dry before lockdowns and the price seemed to go up on each visit (I'd visit about every 6 months). By now I imagine it would be about £80. He did offer a small reductions to seniors but kept forgetting to apply it and I'd forget to ask. It was quite a walk away uphill and now it's too much for me.
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  6591.  @joannebridgetsimpson6260  Didn't the Irish government change that part of the constitution at the time of the Good Friday Agreement. I thought they formally relinquished their claim on Northern Ireland (or the 6 counties as they are otherwise known). I've just noticed that David Armstrong has already made that point.
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  6592.  @majellamclaughlin9925  It's a UK/Irish border. The Republic of Ireland Constitution no longer claims the 6 counties of Northern Ireland so that's a recognition that it's in the UK. That may not be what everyone wants but that's the present position constitutionally. (It wouldn't be an Irish border as the Irish wouldn't want one there.)
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  6593. Trump likes to parade foreign leaders while he announces his 'successes' in foreign policy, but he is being played by them and he doesn't even realise it. They 'play' him because they realise how stupid inconsistent and untrustworthy he is.
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  6594. Is he talking through his arse again?
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  6595. I have type II diabetes and at one time by taking medication, losing some weight and watching diet, I got back down to a pre-diabetes level. I wish I'd known about Vit D then but I'm still going to try it. The GP did prescribe it over Winter at one time but not connected with diabetes and stopped the prescription at the first sign of normal vit D levels.
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  6596. It's all got to hang out - the dirty washing - what they said and how they behaved towards each other is relevant to how they were able to co-ordinate or not, to tackle Covid.
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  6597. I've never heard grim used to mean quite what Ricky says. Grim means bleak and depressing, unattractive, forbidding, very serious, miserable, dreary.
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  6598. Bob Bad. He basically said Africa was getting its act together and they had benefited from USA support in that endeavour and he thanked Trump for the support the US has given.
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  6599. Putin has told his armies not to let anyone out of the steelworks in Mariupol. I'm surprised that was not mentioned. Germany's not going to stop buying Russian gas soon. It can't switch that fast.
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  6600. And your evidence is? And your science qualifications are?
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  6601.  @whollyspokes3645  Don't fret. I've no intention of copying you.
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  6602.  norman smithers  It's certainly having a stellar performance.
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  6603.  norman smithers  Lol. Good one. Actually not, in reality though. It's the cheapest as they are selling it at cost price at the moment. Later this year they intend to up the price.
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  6604.  @cautionfiamable  Yes it seems to be a democracy where the electors in the electoral college don't always align with the popular vote.
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  6605.  Sauron Merciful  As President (if he wins a second term) does he have enough power to change the rules on getting a third term?
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  6606.  @cautionfiamable  Well it's not a good trait for a President though o.k for an entertainer on a reality show like The Apprentice. I have recently watched a series of programmes on Trump's history and he was quite a ruthless businessman though not that successful (my interpretation). He actually said he profits from chaos so I can well see why he likes to create it. He's a snake oil salesman.
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  6607. Why are people obsessed with tax avoidance? Tax is the price you pay for civilisation. Monaco - an overbuilt mini country. Switzerland has a high cost of living and has a lot of social and other rules that people have to observe. Jersey doesn't want anyone to immigrate there unless they are rich. Qatar is extremely hot, mostly desert. The buildings are ugly. It's not great if you are a woman or like a drink. Do you ever talk about anything interesting or is your conversation all about tax planning, security, cost of living and crime? Must be fun at parties.
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  6608. It's not against white people you silly person
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  6609. I'm just slightly younger than you but I have asthma and diabetes so I probably would not survive it.
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  6610.  @davidholgate123  It's not science. What was described is nature. Science just enables us to explain it and perhaps find treatments.
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  6611.  @jonathanbowen3640  We had our own Kent variant which then spread worldwide. (Strains and variants are not the same thing. These are variants that are appearing not strains).
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  6612. People can't know whether they are 'fit and healthy' or infective without tests because for several days while infective people may not feel ill or not very ill, some may never feel much in the way of symptoms but they can still cause the deaths of others if they pass it on. This virus spreads very easily too.
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  6613. Yes, he could just lie like Trump, couldn't he?
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  6614.  @chastaine813  My comment was facetious. You took it seriously.
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  6615.  @Sam-qh1sh  Waste? Surely it was the better pay that made the difference.
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  6616.  @Sam-qh1sh  The NHS has to pay training costs for doctors and nurses which in the case of doctors can be 7 years long. Then the private sector just swoops them up for free. It can also pay staff more because it charges its patients, and in the UK it doesn't do the most expensive work such as A&E. When things go wrong in private sector medicine the patients get shipped back to the NHS to deal with via A&E. Also the private sector is charging the NHS a lot for the work it carries out via NHS contracts. It charges enough to make a profit.
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  6617. People don't get much exposure to her performances of Shakespeare's works.
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  6618. He's easily wound up about trivia isn't he?
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  6619.  @williambeckett3796  I don't think they would because the word is losers not loosers.
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  6620.  @roblewis5044  Percentage wise if you add up, this time a greater percentage voted against Boris's Brexit deal than for it - oddly enough 52 to 48 against, but that's the first past the post system for you. The Tories won a lot of constituencies by not many votes so their vote share gets a whopping majority. I'll live with it. Boris will need to sort out the mess and make good on his promises now. Not so easy for a liar but I notice from page 48 of their Manifesto that they intend to shut down opposition as much as possible so I hope you like what he does because it will be harder for your voice to be heard, in future, if you don't.
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  6621.  @thesheepman220  Why should I live in the EU? What childish thinking. Leavers don't have exclusive ownership of Britain.
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  6622.  @williambeckett3796  Well, I guess it's not the worst of your problems with Boris in charge. Let's hope he lives up to your expectations. I'm not commenting any more now. I'm going to look for some escapism.
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  6623.  @williambeckett3796  Looser than what? It's loser, you loser.
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  6624.  @thesheepman220  It's funny that Brexiters think they own the UK and everyone else should leave. You won the vote but not by the majority of people voting, for you. You're not the landlord of the UK. Boris has reserved that role for foreign investors.
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  6625. Here is a song that represents Brexit pretty well, I think. I like the German version but I've also posted the English one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNYcviXK4rg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35iKfS76TBY
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  6626. She didn't say 'rape is sexy'. She said 'people think rape is sexy'. She was trying to say it's about power and violence, not sex, but I don't think she expressed it very well.
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  6627. The Tories have always protected and invested in motorists when other greener interests have not been protected, bus routes, train fares, lack of incentives to use these etc. Motorists have been largely sheltered from the effects of needing to cut carbon emissions. It's unrealistic in the longer run.
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  6628. Untypical actually.
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  6629. In the UK it's it'sTeresa pronounced like Tereeza. Some of her posher colleagues try to poshify her name by calling her Terayza.
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  6630.  @AJ__4678  No. That's corrupt business.
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  6631.  @mick1406 What? The Republic of Ireland is in the EU! If you mean between the Republic of Ireland and NI, that would break the Good Friday Agreement.
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  6632.  @mick1406  Are you dim? I'm not howling with rage. I'm expressing logic. As the Republic is in the EU there can't be a border between it and the EU. That's like saying you can separate yourself from you. The rules that apply to the EU apply to the Republic which is in the EU. The protection of the EU border includes protections that apply to the Republic. Boris, Parliament and the DUP all signed up to the trade border in the Irish sea. It is they and the Brexiteers who are the hypocrites. It was the UK that chose to leave the EU, or Wales and England to be more precise. It wasn't an issue of the EU's making. You don't leave a club and expect that club to change according to your whims afterwards,
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  6633.  @mick1406  The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement does not exclude Northern Ireland or Ireland from establishing cross-border checkpoints and other security measures. However, an explicit objective of the UK Withdrawal Agreement is to minimise physical border controls and politically it is known that border controls would risk restarting the troubles in Ireland. The aim of the GFI is to normalise relations between NI and the South to remove those frictions.
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  6634.  @mick1406  It doesn't have to be mentioned specifically if it's inferred.
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  6635.  @singed8853  Crowning
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  6636.  @marcosd9016  But also because he feels it and he means it. This is reality he is talking about - not a part in a drama.
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  6637. It's set in the wars of the roses. The house of York versus the house of Lancaster.
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  6638. What happened to Gladstone? Is he still at the Treasury?
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  6639. Would this be happening more to younger people because they are fitter and have thinner arms (less fat on their arms) giving a higher risk of the vaccine hitting a vein?
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  6640. Or rather genuinely stand up for their areas.
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  6641. YorkshireSpud. I'm not a fan of May. I'm more a fan of Corbyn, but I don't think he would have done better. No one would have done better because the EU were never going to give a deal that would encourage others to try and leave, and the only other alternative is no deal which is worse. We were always going to be shafted to some extent whether we stayed or left, with or without a deal. That's the nature of the beast which is the EU and also the nature of the global economy now and it's a reflection of our current place in the world. The deal he suggests as plan B would not be supported by Brexiteers who voted leave, so it would be equally divisive, and in any case there is not time to negotiate again. We will be out of the EU, with or without an agreement now on 29th March 2019.
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  6642.  @steveleversedge2817  He's right but he would not got a better deal. No-one would.
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  6643.  @NailHeavenAshford  Do you mean a carbon monoxide alarm? That's something different. I've never heard of a gas alarm. I don't think a carbon monoxide alarm would warn of a gas leak. I'm not an expert but I think gas has to be heated to produce carbon monoxide. If a gas leak met a source of heat, that would produce an explosion before any alarm would sound.
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  6644. Fetterman looks like Abraham Lincoln without hair.
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  6645. All those people who say 'defund the BBC' well this is what you get. The BBC will sack its older better paid stars and look for younger cheaper ones.
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  6646. Blackmail contracts should be illegal - null and void if people choose to ignore them - unenforceable. There are also competitors. Until recently Astra Zeneca was selling its vaccines at cost price and still does for countries not in a posotion to afford them, I understand.
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  6647. Because it's not his plan. You realise 'austerity' was the plan of the Tories? Germany and Portugal got out of the same recession without going through austerity. Even the USA did not adopt austerity as a policy. They all know about the economical theory that says they way out of a recession is more spending (for investment) then save when times are good. It's a bit like when you are skidding while driving. You're advised to steer into the skid while gradually slowing in order to get out of it, although that seems counter -intuitive at the time.
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  6648. He just could not resist venting his prejudices.
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  6649. Were those Covid symptoms? Why was he at work if he was feeling ill?
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  6650. @J F Who is he?
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  6651.  @Bread-nx9fo  It's not whataboutism. It's pointing out hypocrisy.
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  6652. It's not about communism or blame (whoosh). It's about fairness.
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  6653.  @scratchthesurface3138  Not really. I suspect you are not a European or you have been reading too much 'Daily Mail'. Corbyn believes in democracy. You can vote him in and vote him out again. That's not the same as communism. Corbyn's programme is no more radical than the Labour government of 1945 which rebuilt Britain after WW2, nationalised some industries and created the NHS. He would not be spending 'other people's money' but the money of the majority voters who have voted for him to spend their tax money that way according to his programme. The Scandinavian economies thrive well under these principles and come high up on the world happiness index also.
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  6654.  @scratchthesurface3138 As I stated it was a 'suspicion' not an 'assumption'. Don't you know the difference? 1) My point was only that the majority would have voted for his programme. That's as much as we can hope for in a democracy. The Tories are currently spending my money the way they wish but I don't resort to calling them fascist. 2) If we have fewer GPs than Scandinavian countries that's the fault of the Tories who have been in power for 9 years now. It takes about 7 years to train doctors. The Tories aren't good at planning. They don't much believe in it, thinking of it as 'socialist' in nature. They believe the 'market' will take care of everything. Also they have increased the burdens on doctors with this unnecessary marketisation of the NHS so that there are purchasers, and providers and everything is done according to contracts which have to be regularly renegotiated and monitored, and much data is collected accordingly. Their austerity polices have increased GP burdens too by creating more poverty and sickness. About 27% of public health funds go into private provider hands now (most of this is concealed - counted as funding the public service because it goes to voluntary bodies and local councils who merely pass it on to the private companies). A slice of that will be profits that don't need to be a part of healthcare.
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  6655.  @scratchthesurface3138  And P.S. The Labour Party has always done quite a lot to prop up capitalism. In 2008 they spent billions propping up the failed banks.
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  6656.  Brenda Chown  It's no good trying to excuse Trump's abysmal performance with fake news to deflect blame from him. He needs to 'man up' and accept responsibility for his total lack of action in the weeks before this became such a crisis.
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  6657. Use your brain first. Where is the evidence that she was 'cancelled'? He didn't mention any. Secondly, Stanley Johnson's wife is on written record as saying that he beat her many times throughout their marriage and that Boris saw that happening (so Boris was aware, of it when he nominated his father for a knighthood).
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  6658. How exactly are they woke? Are juries 'woke' too? What do you mean by 'woke'?
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  6659.  @garyfryer5334  Women are 50% of the population. If you can't cope with that what kind of man are you?
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  6660. @Grimsby Imp Just gras
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  6661. Don't bother reading the comments. I'll summarise them. It's either all 'haters' or unbelievers.
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  6662. Some celebrities think if they can use their fame and influence for good, that's no bad thing. I think 'me me me' is the least of the issues to be bothered about at this time.
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  6663. *iniquity
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  6664. This is sick-making to watch. Currie and Woodburn are horrible people. To call Angela Rayner a gobby northerner, is rich coming from Edwina Currie - pot calling the kettle black there.
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  6665. He'llhave no power though, except to mouth off for the media.
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  6666. He has a Scottish accent.
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  6667. Which migrants are living it up in 4 star hotels? If you are referring to quarantine hotels, the people staying there have to pay for their stay - around £1750 I believe.
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  6668. It's not a 'promotion' of anything. It's a showing of an imaginary storyline based on a context that does happen when a Pope dies..
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  6669. Since everyone who comes to see him has to have a Covid 19 test, he is probably safe enough without a mask.
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  6670. Sorry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AviADrhX-v8&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=263
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  6671. woman
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  6672. Abloogywogywoo. He promotes peace.
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  6673. This is a very thoughtless or childish speech on freedom. One person's 'freedom' can take away the freedom of another. There's the freedom to catch Covid 19. Then there's the freedom to give it to other people. And then there's the freedom to overload the NHS and mentally destroy or kill off a few carers. Ah, there's freedom and then there's selfishness with no thought for others or communities. Together we stand. Divided we fall. He references WWII but that was fought together with people doing as they were told. Soldiers don't get to choose to ignore orders. Civilian populations didn't get to choose whether they 'blacked out' or not at night.
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  6674. In terms of the affordability test, I doubt that before September 2022, any lender realised that rates would rise so high so fast, and such increases would not have been included in the calculations. If they were, far fewer people would have been granted a mortgage and all those coming to the end of a fixed mortgage were caught out too.
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  6675.  @Royboy50  Putting up interest rates increases inflation when measured in RPI, so it's fuel for inflation.
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  6676. Trump has already said (in relation to DOGE) he leaves thing to Musk 'who is doing a good job'. That doesn't sound like the role of an advisor.
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  6677.  @ricky9051  I don't know about the USA but in the UK vulnerable people can have flu vaccinations once a year. There is no vaccination yet for Coronavid 19 and won't be for some time.
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  6678.  EccentricSage  *quarantines
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  6679. Well in that case, so are 98% of scientists.
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  6680. How did they keep warm with a fashion hat though? Could it still be worn as a hood when necessary?
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  6681. Well he was chums with Mussolini and a fan of Hitler.
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  6682. Trump is doing more to depopulate America. He denied the problem and first then prematurely announced that it had been conquered before becoming more realistic.
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  6683. He's a real Trumper isn't he? As Nadine Dorries disclosed, a lot of Tory donors are donating on condition that Boris stays, because they think he's doing a great job for THEM.
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  6684.  @seafoodpizza  There are 2 types of Tories those that benefit from the Tory Party and others that are persuaded that they will benefit but will be shafted in the end. They are wooed merely as voting fodder.
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  6685. He can't even get elected as an MP. He's had 9 tries and 9 fails.
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  6686.  @robertdewar1752  Eh? I think I'm probably older than you, though what that's got to do with anything I don't know. We'll see what happens. The unions can probably appeal to the courts.
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  6687.  @psychoblack1411  That's not a 'selection'. However in this case it's not as if the work disappeared, and if the work is still there, the employees can't legally be made redundant en masse like that and replaced with cheaper workers.
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  6688. If Northern Ireland agreed to stay in the EU which they did vote for but which the DUP is against. If May hadn't called the 2017 when she did, she would not have had to rely on the DUP and take notice of their objections.
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  6689. In what sense is this news calming?
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  6690.    Then you elect a government that will spend it responsibly for the public good. Taxes are neither immoral nor moral. They are inanimate. They have no consciousness.
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  6691.    40 million is a lot of people. Corporations in the US encourage people all the time to buy things they don't need. It's consumerism gone mad. However the fact that incomes have stayed basically flat in real terms since the 1970s, doesn't help. The cost of living is not staying flat. Many people are just surviving and who would have predicted something like Covid and its longer term effects? Good governments prepare for emergencies. Bad ones throw people under the bus.
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  6692. He watched it all happen with great delight. He did nothing to discourage his supporters from doing it.
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  6693. And they did. They've lost 1061 so far with 3 councils left to declare.
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  6694. To be fair to Keir Starmer, the Tories and their media supporters have over the years successfully divided the working class against each other. Starmer is trying to appear like the person who wants a negotiated solution so as not to alienate other sections of the working class and the middle class. However he knows, and the Union knows that the people who want to prolong this strike are the government, and they won't negotiate because they want to break the RMT union. They have a cuts agenda for the railways including cuts in safety areas such as maintenance. The government is controlling the negotiations but not negotiating directly and pretending it's not down to them but down to the rail companies who are the ones negotiating directly with the unions, when the government allows them to, but it doesn't allow them to compromise in order to settle the dispute. Starmer does attack the government for their lack of willingness to negotiate to end the strike. The reason the government can control the rail companies is that the government took over control of the railways during Covid times, because it was not profitable for the rail companies to continue and they would have walked away from their contracts. Now the government collects all the rail revenue and pays the companies flat fees for managing the railways. Mick Lynch says the companies are willing to settle with him to end the strike but the government has told them not to. You can see in media interviews that whenever the Union reps (including Mick's Assistant) try to explain the detail, the interviewers often talk over them to try and block their message.
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  6695. Are you a clairvoyant?
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  6696.  @BoojayDeeth  This 'dead cert' Labour win worries me. Many people didn't vote to remain in the EU because they thought Remain was bound to win. Complacency and apathy is the enemy of democracy.
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  6697.  @BoojayDeeth  Because Reform have no experience or track record. They are like the Tories on steroids. Rather than more of the same you will get worse and more chaos. Their manifesto does not add up either.
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  6698. Do they make a profit? I thought most were in loss. What do they do with their profit?
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  6699. Nigel Farage tried 8 times to get elected and failed. He's as big an egomaniac as Boris. Notice Nigel says what's wrong with everything but never talks about solutions.
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  6700. UAE has strict social rules and codes which it is dangerous to transgress. I imagine it would be a very dull place to live unless your idea of a good life is all about shopping, fine dining, and always keeping indoors where there's adequate air conditioning. A good place for boring people.
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  6701. The media was banned from the meeting so it must have been someone who was at the meeting who reported what he said to the media.
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  6702. Land of the Free?
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  6703. How nomadic can you be in times of Covid?
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  6704. To be fair all the leaders were given a good grilling. I don't think anyone was let off the hook. Boris Johnson will waffle on and take up all the air time if he's allowed. Compared to attending a public school I'm sure he found the audience no problem to deal with. When under pressure he tends to be economical with the truth anyway which is a get out strategy for him.
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  6705. Do people have no perspective or sense of priorities? Frailties of old age are not the same as corruption and attacks on democracy. Taxation is the price of civilisation. If businesses want none of it, how will they fare in a world without police, army, fire service, education, a health service, prisons, environmental oversight, food, welfare and public health protections, litter collection, and all the other public services it goes to pay for. Being a bit richer in a horrible feral world, is that worth it?
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  6706. With his big cheeks he reminds me of Bagpuss.
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  6707. *would have (or would've) run
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  6708. She's on a loser with this one since there are so many texts written by Romans.
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  6709.  @elrjames7799  If refugees/asylum seekers make it to this shore they have legal rights under various international agreements. Their method of entry then becomes irrelevant in legal terms. Only those entering illegally who are not refugees/asylum seekers, can be deported but the government has to have done the work to distinguish who is who. otherwise courts can stop deportations.
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  6710.  @elrjames7799  Well I guess that's what Priti Patel is planning to do but we are currently going through the Brexit withdrawal period so we are still keeping to those agreements until January 2021 at least. However changing that will mean we will turn everyone away that enters illegally including genuine refugees/asylum seekers.
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  6711.  @elrjames7799  I think she's got something in mind but probably can't do it until the Brexit withdrawal transition period ends.
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  6712. Boris is afraid EU and US treaty will take priority and squeeze him out.
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  6713.  @YUDNSAY  I guess not.
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  6714. What a shitty state of things. Seems like a horrible country to live in if you are a woman.
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  6715. How are Labour worse than the Tories? Apart from that being nigh on impossible (except maybe by the Reform Party), pay has always been higher under Labour and the last Labour government had the lowest ever NHS waiting lists, the highest ever patient satisfaction survey results, it reduced child poverty significantly and legislated against various discriminations. Wales and Scotland got devolution and N Ireland got peace via The Good Friday Agreement. All worth having.
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  6716. Therese Coffey 'I set out queerly' - Freudian slip there. What is her response to the egg shortage? Well, she laid an egg in this session. Supply shortage is not essentially to do with the weather. Why are the government, the supermarkets and the media still peddling that balderdash? Not all supermarkets' veg supplies are affected. It's those supermarkets that push the contract price below economic levels so suppliers drop out from those contracts.
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  6717. As a German dictator, Hitler never stood for election in London.
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  6718. To be fair, it was their ancestors who were vicious gangsters who took over the land in battle, the modern royals have just inherited their positions and power and would a Presidency be more honourable or cost less? Has anyone done a cost/benefit analysis on that? I'm no supporter of the royals but which is an admirable Presidential model? Perhaps New Zealand, or Ireland, but the nature of Presidency changes from President to President. I suppose one benefit of a Presidency is that it lacks the sense of entitlement of royalty and Presidents can be voted out.
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  6719. Are you a Londoner?
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  6720.  Noah Cooper  In fact it's why people say it IS remarkable. It's been a city with immigrants for a long time. In Edward IV's time there were riots against Flemish weavers in London. In Edward I's time he evicted Jews (who had originally come from elsewhere). In 1066 we had the Normans. Before that the Anglo-Saxons and before that The Romans. My memory doesn't go back any further.
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  6721. So Americans are slimmer than Brits?
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  6722. MRWorldGuy. Don't keep banging on. It's not racist either way.
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  6723. Decanus Gaius Publius. I'm chilled now.
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  6724. There's no such thing as 'herd immunity' with Covid as the virus mutates. Also if the virus is allowed to spread and overwhelm the health services many more will die. Sweden has admitted their approach hasn't worked and they have rowed back from it.
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  6725.  @Azhar_Kader  Well, I prefer him shaved.
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  6726.  @themagpie_1  The Swedish population is not as dense and it is easier to keep a distance. They also followed the rules. Research reported in Public Health in the UK found that at the height of the first wave of Covid in the UK in May, only 18% of people self isolated properly, and only 11% of those who should have quarantined after returning from trips abroad did so.
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  6727.  @healthiswealth8153  Repeat that again when the pandemic is over, if it ever is over.
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  6728.  @NothingToDismay  Tell me how it will end then, o wise knowledgeable one. We don't yet know if it's like colds and flu in the sense of you can't eliminate those. Some people have claimed to have had it more than once.
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  6729. They've not all tried to engineer a coup to overthrow the democratic will of the people following an election.
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  6730. Now apparently there is a Gamma variant that vaccinations are not so effective against. However this vaccine got into the human population in the first place, it's an utter disaster for the human race.
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  6731.  TheCausation  That's silly to say Corbyn is anti-white, when he's white and so are most of his party. He's more about fairness and anti-bigotry.
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  6732. Basically it's o.k. for the rich to commit fraud but not for the poor to do so. Fraud by the rich has a blind eye turned to it. Fraud by the poor results in imprisonment. The rich in government regard the public wallet as something for them to help themselves to.
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  6733. Let's face it. War makes good profits for those behind the military. Not so good for those on the front line. In the eyes of the world the USA is no more trustworthy now than when it broke all its treaties and agreements with the Native Americans.
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  6734. Four candles or fork handles
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  6735.  @soundscape713  *would've or would have. Sure, she's no 'genius' like this man, who doesn't need to consult statistics because it's 'all in his head'.
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  6736. He's wearing an awful lot of medals. I wonder how he managed to survive all those battles.
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  6737. A new referendum wouldn't solve anything. What would people be voting on? We don't even know what's possible now and what the costs/benefits would be because we are not being told, and in any case there would be down sides whether we stay or leave. I think the country is really divided and a new referendum is not likely to change that. The politicians will not get a great deal because the EU won't let them and that was flagged up by them from the beginning. They have to show that there there are unfavourable consequences from leaving the EU and we can't avoid some negative consequences whether we stay or leave.
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  6738.  @maanze9284  We'll be screwed if we stay and screwed if we don't. Economically it might be better to stay but in the EU in future Britain will be dragged in directions it may not want to go without much of a say over it. I've mixed feelings about it. When it was just an economic trading area that was fine but the project to create a united Europe, in political terms does not sit well with the British and some countries in the EU have suffered badly because of their membership, but because they have the euro and no other currency to fall back on, they've no choice but to stay, come what may.
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  6739. No the ending is quite fascinating and raised a lot of questions in quite a clever way. After all, it's part of God's creation and Hollywood didn't create that storyline. The author of the book, Robert Harris did. It wasn't really about gender identity. There's no identity crisis revealed but there is the complexity of what God has created and the attitude of the church to that.
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  6740. They are much more forgiving about Trump saying it than when they thought Biden said it.
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  6741. Impeach, impeach, impeach.
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  6742. This country was actually built on immigration. Remember the Anglo Saxons and the Vikings?
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  6743.  @robertclive491 I'm implying what I said, that this country was built on immigration (of one form or another). It's not as if it's a new thing and I've not heard British people saying Anglo Saxon and Viking immigration was the downfall of this country.
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  6744.  @fyrdman2185  I'm not sure what you mean by homogenous. There's plenty of Viking DNA in the areas that they occupied. There's Anglo Saxon DNA, DNA from the original Britons and French DNA from the Normans. It's just not associated with colour. If you think the culture is now homogenous well that could happen also in a few generations. Would you rather than immigrants invaded and took the country by violent raids as the Vikings and Anglo Saxons did? We now have a great set of stories and mythology from all the contributors to British culture over the last 1000 years. I mean my DNA is 94% celtic but I'm not resentful of the others who became part of Britain over the centuries.
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  6745.  @fyrdman2185  The celts were in England before anyone else but were called Britons because we occupied the whole island and more. I still don't know what you mean by homogenous as you haven't answered that question.
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  6746.  @fyrdman2185 P.S. As it happens I was born in England and believe I am 'homogenous' in your terms because I think you mean 'white'. You should look up some DNA research though if you are referring to DNA.
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  6747.  @fyrdman2185  It was a nation of immigrants in the 8th and 9th centuries so you can't say 'it never was'. The Romans earlier pushed the original Britons to Wales. Tracing back our family it goes back to Wales.
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  6748.  @fyrdman2185  Violent invasions is a form of immigration which simply means 'the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country'. By the way it's 'the Romans did not push' not 'did not pushed' (grammar). Not every form of past tense uses the past participle. Some verb tenses use the stem of the infinitive form of the verb. Quotation from the BBC history 'Roman and Saxon invasions pushed the original Britons into the land area of Wales, where they became the Welsh people'.
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  6749.  @fyrdman2185  We'll have to agree to disagree on Britain. Would you say the USA is a nation of immigrants? Who were those original immigrants? White British and how did the British acquire an empire?
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  6750.  @fyrdman2185  Lol. Englishmen were immigrants to America. I can't continue this conversation because you don't know the definition of an immigrant which is the basis of the discussion.
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  6751.  @fyrdman2185  Er, Native Americans? They existed there first. You believe just what you want to and use the term immigrant to mean the same as white. It's basically a racist and ignorant view. I have a more accurate knowledge of history than you do.
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  6752.  @fyrdman2185  It means someone who moves from one country to another or to a foreign land. You use a definition to suit your prejudice that's all.
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  6753.  @fyrdman2185 You don't have to have a concept of country to have your land and hunting grounds stolen from you and to be herded into reservations or killed. Have you ever heard of the belief in 'manifest destiny'?
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  6754. Migrants please, not ex pats.
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  6755. Mold can be very dangerous. A friend of mine lived in a room which was basically a lean to, temporarily in between moves. It was putrid with mold and the mold even got onto her clothes in a chest of drawers. She contracted a rare lung disease which was not curable and which eventually killed her. When my daughter was looking for student accommodation with a friend, we looked at one house where everything, doors and furniture were covered in mold. It was clear it had been unoccupied for a long time. When I said to the agent,' how could anyone offer a house for rent in this condition?' He said' What's the problem, you can just wipe it off?'. We also looked at a place which had bare wires hanging from ceilings and most of the walls but it was cheap and otherwise o.k. Then the agent rang us and said (rather late in the day) that the landlord didn't want to rent to students. These experiences relate to Liverpool. I can imagine it would be no better in London.
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  6756. I think the interviewer's aim was to ask her list of questions question and let Andrew Scott speak without interruption. She wanted the interview to be about him and not her views or responses.
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  6757. Unnevervingly I've just realised his voice sounds like Tony Blair's
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  6758. And that solution has worked where?
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  6759. explodes at, not on.
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  6760. The subtext of what Pence is saying is 'Don't blame me for what Trump and our government is doing. I once did something good in Indiana, so that's o.k isn't it?' Also he's clearly not aware of what his government is doing. This makes me cringe with embarrassment on behalf of Pence.
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  6761. The difference between Labour and the Tories is that Labour want the NHS to be funded adequately and stay as public provision. Tories believe in public funding of the system (for now) but are doing their best to get as much private provision into the system as possible. Ultimately they see the NHS as just a brand. Labour does not believe profits should be made from people's ill health. Does Trump even remember when he contradicts himself I wonder? Why isn't what's good for his friend, good for US citizens?
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  6762.  @kirstyi7860  I did give all sides a decent think but there's a point when, having done that, you know what you think and are ready to comment. I did explain my point. If you look at Farage's record he's more about what suits Farage than taking any consistent logical rational position. Here is Farage criticising the Brexit deal he supported. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS8FZjedq9c&t=488s
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  6763.  @SheilaTitchener  Ah, kindred spirits then.
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  6764. Couples squirm or couple squirms but not couples squirms (grammar)
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  6765.  @lorrainelane6583  *they're. Sorry but don't you understand who is governing the country i.e the government? It's the Tories with an 80 seat majority. Labour are the main opposition party. They are not in government. That's what elections are for - to elect one party into government. Do you know how the British constitution and parliamentary democracy works?
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  6766.  @alberttatlock1541  Were you mad enough to elect the Tories?
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  6767.  @lorrainelane6583  Yes, you mean that's what a labour government would be like (if there was one). However a bit of bad manners seems to mean more to you than the crashing awful incompetence and waste shown my the Tory government which affects us all directly. Honestly we get the government we deserve. If that's what people are prepared to put up with, they've only themselves to blame for the consequences.
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  6768.  @lorrainelane6583  Your'e a glutton for punishment. Good luck.
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  6769. Yes, they lounge around in Parliament doing very little for their takings from the public purse.
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  6770. However maths proficiency never seemed to stop the Tories from indulging in colossal waste and corruption nor voting regularly in Parliament to harm people. Honesty and good intentions are better qualities.
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  6771.  @letsdoitnow121  So we'll never see her on 'strictly come dancing'. Is that a crime?
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  6772. A forthcoming election?
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  6773. In a nutshell, a psychopath is without feelings for others, a narcissist has excessive self love and a sociopath has no social skills, isn't that it?
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  6774. That's one of the contradictions in P.L Travers character that Emma Thompson referred to, I guess.
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  6775.  @droge192  Some of that money will have come from taxpayer support also. What a bunch of leeches.
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  6776. It puzzles me that some people don't want to risk having a vaccine against Covid because they don't feel it's been tested enough on humans but they want to take ivermectin which is an animal drug that's not been scientifically tested for use on humans.
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  6777. It's because Rupert Murdoch woke up and paid attention after he realised the hit to his wallet.
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  6778. Crowned not coronated.
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  6779. Why would he be spending money for nothing?
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  6780. There's always money to spend on killing. It's always affordable.
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  6781.  @stevekaczynski3793  Lol. I think that joke passed over many heads.
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  6782.  @soniamonia573  In what way? Was it the (at least) 30 promises that he broke? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZD_xyAjC-E&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=226&t=71s
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  6783.  @tubegersh  I don't strive to be President though or have failing businesses or many lost legal cases.
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  6784.  @ThePiratemachine  The need for competence goes with responsibility. Voters seem naive or not very politically aware to vote in such a man. They also seem very willing to overlook his obvious flaws and take him at his own assessment of himself. However some are exposed to heavy propaganda on channels such as Fox.
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  6785. Do none of them know how to swim and why didn't she try to lift her face out of the water?
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  6786. And they have to actually do something useful. Don't give Trump tips on how to get re-elected.
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  6787.  @uniquevideosUk  No. I read it. Do you read?
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  6788.  @carolmcln5028  Not really because Israel is not letting enough of it through and some illegal settlers have been destroying the aid too.
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  6789. The media has a Trump addiction and Trump has a media addiction. It's a mutual love in. He's like the lead comedian in a running sit com.
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  6790.  @TLowGrrreen  The King's English will sooner be replaced by American English. Pronunciations are already heavily Americanised and adverbs are dying out.
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  6791.  @edmundblackaddercoc8522  Not a snob. A lover of the English version of English, considering it more beautiful and less clunky on the whole than the American version. I would like to preserve it but it's a losing battle I fear.
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  6792.  @happyjonn9242  They vote on a wide range of issues in Parliament that they may not speak about but quietly vote in line with the majority of Tories.
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  6793. @Russian Troll so Im told I don't know where you got your statistics from but here are some for you https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/oct/30/facts-support-mps-claim-that-better-educated-voted-remain-pollster
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  6794.  @mscott3918  I think people are going to get what they voted for when we drop out of the EU on 31 October. I only hope they like what they get, otherwise they'll be looking for people to blame, people to take their anger out on, and things could get unpleasant.
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  6795. Happiness is unexciting. A Chinese curse is 'May you live in interesting times'. I think 'not too bad' is an older generation thing from people who were taught not to grumble during the hard years of WW2. My generation would say 'I'm fine' and the younger generation now say 'I'm good' which is not quite grammatically correct.
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  6796. Oh how convenient for Republicans to sweep things under the carpet and downplay what happened! Fortunately there is video of what happened otherwise they would be saying nothing happened.
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  6797. People think the Tories represent London? That's a misapprehension. London always votes more for Labour.
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  6798. It's probably working in a secret way. I bet the hosts get to see the dislike figures.
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  6799. So you better be sure you are not putting anything into anyone else's body.
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  6800.  @megatim74 I don't think that anyone will be forced to take the vaccine but if time and data prove that vaccination significantly lowers the risk of transmitting the virus, then it will be the unvaccinated who are most in danger of contracting it from other unvaccinated people, and they will need to be more cautious in order to protect themselves and others, just as before the vaccine was available.
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  6801.  @lynnm.9243  They are not sure yet how long immunity lasts from having had Covid. About 6 months has been suggested, and it's not clear whether it would give immunity to other variants. I'm sure more info about that will come out as time goes on. It's not that there's something rotten in the state of Denmark. It's more that they're taking a belt and braces approach. Looking just at a 98% survival rate is not taking into account: 1) that hospital treatment has prevented the rate from being higher. If hospitals ever get overwhelmed, the rate would be much higher; 2) that we've had over 4 million Covid cases and from those there are over 1 million Covid survivors who have 'Long Covid' i.e. long term symptoms or permanent damage. 3) The Indian variant which we have in places and which could spread and become dominant, seems to affect younger people more seriously too and is more transmissable.
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  6802.  @lynnm.9243  Before there were vaccines, sanitation, health services and easy access to food, the history of mankind is that its numbers were low and didn't increase until very recently (in historical terms). When I was born there were 2 billion people on Earth. Now there are 7 billion. Vaccines are one of the things that enabled the population to survive and have longer lifespans. I have had cancer twice and developments in science (chemicals to treat it) have saved me. I was willing to take the risk on the vaccine because the serious side effects are rare but the risk of Covid is much higher for me. I also have diabetes and asthma.
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  6803.  @lynnm.9243  I would say do not let fear be your deciding factor in not getting vaccinated either. I think it would have been a harder decision to make if I was a lot younger. Yes they had to rush this vaccine out and Astra Zeneca anyway was supplying it at cost rather than profit. It had to pass through the regulatory approval system and the quid pro quo for getting it out as quickly as possible, is probably for governments to issue indemnities to companies against being sued. Now we find there can be some blood clotting problems in some people but it's rare and the vaccine has undoubtedly saved many lives. It's about individuals knowing and assessing the risk before making up their minds, but if you take any prescription medicine at all, I'd be surprised if there were many that don't list some possible serious side effects but they will be rare. A medicine would not be allowed on the market if serious side effects were common, and remember nothing in this life is risk free.
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  6804.  @UnrealTournament420  Actually many people suffering from long Covid were not ill or elderly before catching Covid.. The young and able bodied have suffered from it too. Perhaps you might be interested in this video if your mind is not closed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfv9zsKJquk&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=75&t=25s Why are there so many excess deaths around the world? It doesn't matter whether you believe in Covid or not. The stats about excess deaths are undeniable. Here are worldly death figures (not excess deaths) which are said to be understated -very understated for India by people on the ground witnessing the extent of funerals and the bodies floating in the Ganges. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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  6805.  @davidhyatt7772  Do you disregard people over 65 then? Are they of no significance to you - disposable? Also you forget to mention 'long Covid'. i.e 25% of Covid survivors in the UK are left with long term symptoms or long term damage and that affects younger people too. If Covid is allowed to spread rampantly, new variations arise. The latest variation (Indian) spreads 50% more easily and also affects younger people more. There's no reason to be complacent about Covid. As for smallpox, many who survived were scarred for life including on the face.
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  6806.  @UnrealTournament420  People aren't destroying their immune systems by wearing masks. Wherever did you get that barmy idea from? There's been a lot more hand washing and that may have saved people from flu. Covid is more of an airborne disease and there's a theory that viruses compete so where one dominates another will not take hold. I don't know which funeral parlours you've been ringing or where. Seems like an odd thing to do. Perhaps you are in a low Covid area. There are definitely excess deaths because there are excess death certificates and death registrations, so where do you suggest all these excess dead people are being buried or cremated?
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  6807.  @UnrealTournament420  No I don't disregard them but there are not nearly as many as there are who have died or been damaged by Covid. In the UK at least 127,000 people have died from Covid and over a million Covid survivors are suffering from 'Long Covid'.Many of these are under 65. I'm sure you can find the figures if you search. Then compare those figures to the numbers adversely suffering from being vaccinated. Also Covid gives blood clots to way more people than the vaccination does. Nothing in life is risk free. We just have to try and understand the relative risks before making decisions.
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  6808.  @UnrealTournament420  I've not seen those videos. I've seen plenty on the chaos being caused by Covid but I do know that the Indian government has been arresting Indian people who post information on social media showing the damage or telling of how oxygen is running out. I'm sure they have put out some propaganda videos of their own, or perhaps they are old videos showing India before Covid, or are in parts of India not so affected. Who knows? Anyway the Indian government does gather and post Covid stats. Here they are on an International stats site https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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  6809.  @margoty5654  I'm sorry that someone is feeling like crap for a week. That does not mean that everyone feels like crap for a week. We are all different. I've not heard of anyone else suffering for so long. That's not to say that it won't happen sometimes.
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  6810.  @lynnm.9243  Certainly.
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  6811. short a short u. Daks hund
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  6812.  @toooldforthis5093  I got that figure from the BBC news site if I remember correctly, but I might be wrong. It was an online news source. Anyway I've since done some research. Your figure may be more correct, and France alone has been given 44% of all licences granted to EU countries.
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  6813.  @dickjones8119  A very clever way of disguising that he's one of them or a rhino wannabe.
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  6814.  @futoru_globe_trekker6558  You should visit rather than judging by prejudice.
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  6815.  @emmanuelniiayihammon  Only in his dreams.
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  6816. Suella Braverman is as bad as Boris for ignoring the law. Why would he bring her back? Kemi Badenoch is as right wing as you can get in the Tory Party
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  6817. Of course they knew.
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  6818. Douglas Murray should perhaps be more sympathetic to truckers in the UK and what they are having to go through because of Brexit, but all that is hardly mentioned by his ilk. They'd rather sweep it under the carpet.
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  6819. He needs some slogans. He doesn't know how to market himself to the electorate. They need some simple messages to get a feel for what Labour is about.
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  6820.  @GeoffSh4rt  Do we want 'controversial' more than 'helpful'?
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  6821.  @GeoffSh4rt  But then there are a lot of people in the middle ground who won't take a risk on controversial policies and they are often the ones that determine the outcome of the election. What the Tories often do is promise beneficial sounding things, and then introduce the controversial ones after getting elected. Corbyn's last manifesto was ambitious and controversial but that didn't win him the election.
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  6822. Rand Paul, the man with his name the wrong way round.
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  6823. But doesn't Parliament have to vote through the legal changes to get the UK out of the EU, and there's not enough support in the House of Commons for the hard Brexit he's describing. Previous notional votes have shown that. If a hard Brexit was possible, this wealthy man would not be the one to suffer the consequences.
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  6824. Why?
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  6825.  @sylviapage2159  Brits travel on coaches every day.
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  6826. The financial markets.
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  6827. And the Tory cuts in funding to local councils and huge cuts to police budgets with a reduction of over 20,000 police officers are not to blame at all? Lol London will decline under Brexit. I see Sadiq Khan is being set up as a scapegoat.
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  6828.  @alanfenton512  Notice that in his political career he's never reticent in expressing his views about what's wrong with things but never really sticks his neck out by saying what solutions he'd propose.
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  6829. I don't support Trump but you have to understand that The Sun is more of a celebrity gossip paper than a newspaper - anything to sell the paper.
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  6830. *Boris
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  6831. I guess he is prepared to sacrifice himself but not without a fight.
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  6832.  xirsamoht x  *Principles
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  6833. Tell us something we don't know. Duh!
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  6834. It's not personal. It's just tough questioning. He compares us to the animal world. We are not just animals though. We have the capacity to think and learn and have ideas.
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  6835. He's realised or been told that you lose lots more votes by calling constituencies shitholes (what a mentality that reveals) than by insulting another MP.
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  6836. They want a customs union as she said. That's clear. That doesn't mean THE current customs union but just A customs union. That would get over these problems.
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  6837. For Putin, Russians are disposable. That will be his undoing eventually.
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  6838. As soon as somebody finds a name that they think is unusual or unique, others start copying it, or avoid it if it seems ridiculous, so what's the point really? Children of pop stars with weird and wonderful names often change them to something more 'normal' that won't attract too much attention. Zowie Bowie calls himself Duncan I believe.
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  6839.  @allancampbell8446  Trojan
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  6840.  @peterscott2395 That's o.k. It's just my little foible.
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  6841. Promises a golden age? Now he thinks he's Elizabeth I, or is he thinking of permanent rule by the golden haired Johnson clan? He's not abashed at repeating his proven lies is he?
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  6842. Crass with a long a sound doesn't sound as crass as crass with a short a sound. Anglo Saxon vowel sounds are best for insults and swearing.
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  6843. Peter Hitchens should find something useful to do in life.
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  6844.  @Julie-ol3je  There are many people with 'opinions' doing that already. He earns his living by moaning.
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  6845.  @yetagain5671  So, nothing. I was just answering Charlie Webb's question. I don't understand what you are saying. You seem to speak in jargon.
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  6846.  @drugmoney4996  Ruling through suppression of any opposition and opposition views and through violence (potentially). Democracy is out of the window with fascists.
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  6847. They all want the attention of the man who hasn't much of an attention span.
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  6848. To be fair Margaret probably wouldn't have got so involved in the political situation if the King had been stronger but Henry was a weak King and sometimes suffered from mental illness. She did cause problems because she automatically assumed York was an enemy and always treated him as such. This turned him into an enemy. Her assessment of the political situation was based on how things worked in France and she may have been conscious that Henry's line had seized the throne by force rather than inheritance back in Henry IV's time (Henry VI's grandfather). England had had Magna Carta by this time which boosted the strength of the nobles. There's no evidence that the real Margaret was prone to "fake outbursts of emotion". That's just Shakespeare writing some dramatic scenes into the play.
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  6849. He sure looks as though he's being probed in the thumbnail.
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  6850. Will Trump voters realise this? Trump will tell more lies and find others to blame and his supporters will still believe him.
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  6851. I'd be surprised his MAGA followers read anything other than his lies. He must forget what he's said previously. They'll still vote for him though.
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  6852. John Redwood is an alien or the nearest thing we have to one.
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  6853. Because he's like you?
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  6854. It's not wise to argue with a US cop. If he was a white guy though in a uniform, I don't think he'd have been stopped. Why would someone trespass to pick up litter?
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  6855. So they'll vote for the Conmen?
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  6856.  @genericusername3212  What kind of Brexit? Brexit at any cost is not a good deal.
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  6857.  @genericusername3212  You're obviously confused if you think it's that simple. Do you know what happens afterwards? I suspect not.
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  6858.  @genericusername3212  You know nothing do you? We'll be down the plughole if we try leaving without a deal just on WTO terms. No country in the world trades just on WTO terms because in trading terms it's the 4th division. They all want deals with a big trading block which is the premier division which is where we are now. So what happens if we go to no deal WTO terms? We have to then set a tariff for trading with the world and under WTO terms it has to be the same tariff for everyone we trade with in the same goods. If we set a tariff that will push prices up for UK consumers and we'll be worse off. If we set a zero tariff (possible under the rules) our farming and manufacturing won't be able to compete with cheap imports from countries where workers have no rights and are paid pennies an hour so our farming and manufacturing industries will be destroyed. Patrick Minford, an economist who is for a hard Brexit says the same about the future of British farming and manufacturing. It will affect other economic sectors also. Wealthy people like ex stockbroker Farage and Jacob Rees Mogg will be raking it in because WTO rules do not regulate financial systems and they will be even more free to squirrel away their profits to tax havens around the world. Also over 80% of our exports are services and 49% of those are to the EU. The day we hard Brexit, those services with lose their 'passport' rights to European EU countries, which is why businesses are talking about moving their headquarters to the Europe. The very people who want Brexit because they are suffering under the present government's austerity programme, will be stuffed even more under no deal Brexit. None of this was explained before the Referendum by a campaign that wasn't even talking about a no deal Brexit. As for getting trade deals, as a member of the EU, we have over 40 trade deals that will no longer apply the day we go out on no deal and Liam Fox only had a handful lined up to replace them. Trade deals take years to negotiate because they are complex covering everything traded between countries. Trump is protectionist and the US is a larger economy than ours, and if we want a trade deal with the USA it will be very much on his terms, as he doesn't need to deal. His negotiators have already said they want access to NHS funding for their corporations as part of the deal and for us to take their farming products like chlorine washed chicken and hormone fed beef, and contaminated baby food- practices currently banned by the EU. China and Russia are not our friends and in any case they don't allow countries to export freely to theirs. They are protectionist. Asian countries have each other to trade with nearby. The only thing India wants from us is more visas for people to come here. Other countries won't make up for the loss of the big trading area on our doorstep (the EU). The way out of our problems is to vote for a party that will do something about inequality in the UK and protect jobs and trade, and that's not the Tories or the Brexit party. Farage has stated he is for replacing the NHS with an insurance based market system. He is for taking restrictions off the sale of handguns and he has other right wing policies too. If we set a zero tariff, that would be zero for EU trade also, except as outsiders the EU would be placing a tariff on us (could be 40%). That would make us uncompetitive in trading with the EU. You can't just count the cost of trading with the EU in terms of our subscriptions. You have to count the benefits to the economy too and the health and welfare of people to get the whole picture.
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  6859.  @genericusername3212  Well they voted for it overwhelmingly in 1945.
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  6860. I fear for the results of any debate between Trump and Biden because Trump is such a motormouth it's hard to deal with his lies. They come out fast and furious like verbal diarrhea.
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  6861. So do some research. Google is your friend.
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  6862.  @poosnip  He certainly worked in the US healthcare industry previously and was appointed to run NHS England because of that experience and because he probably had no objection to running a service where some of the services get handed to private contractors as the Health and Social Care Act of 2012 opened the way to that. He may be leaving because the government handed a lot of their former responsibilities to NHS England and now they plan to take those responsibilities back to have more direct control.
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  6863.  @poosnip  I'm sure you know more than me about his background. 👍
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  6864.  @poosnip  I agree with you but I do think that some of these zealots change their minds when they are in charge of the NHS and realise how good it is - not all though. The fact that the government wants to take back control of the NHS is either because he wouldn't do everything they wanted or because they want to ensure more privatisation by stealth. That's my guess anyway.
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  6865.  @poosnip  I'm sure money must be high up in the equation but there are other areas, like working for banks, where much more money is to be made, if money is the primary goal. My view about what the Tories are doing in regards to the NHS is stealthily and gradually putting out its work to private health companies under the NHS brand so people aren't so aware. Also awareness can be reduced by the fact that the government still funds it and it's free to patients at the point of delivery. The other way they push the private sector is to allow NHS waiting lists to grow long (as happened when they removed treatment time targets, and under Covid) because then more people will buy private treatment to escape waiting lists. The last stages would be to privatise hospitals and move to an insurance based systems but both those moves would attract massive opposition by voters so maybe they could only achieve it by massively running down the NHS so that people perceive it as a poor service.
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  6866.  @poosnip  I thought they had already loosened controls. At one time there used to be limits on the amount of private work consultants could do. I believe the Tories removed or increased the limit for NHS Trusts anyway.
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  6867. According to its remit it's supposed to be educational, not reflect the views of the average Brit.
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  6868. @muckergee No. I prefer troll baiting.
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  6869.  @chrisgadsby5700  The BBC's charter requires it to be 'balanced' so if you think it's not, and you have collected evidence to prove it - by which I mean counting left, centre and right, viewpoints in programmes over a consistent period of time, you can write to the governors to point out bias. Every time the BBC has a spokesperson with some opinion they have to try and find someone of the opposite opinion to balance it. Very few people if any, ever prove bias against the BBC. What generally happens is that some people get used to hearing only views they agree with from selected other media sites and when they hear different views on the BBC it enrages them.
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  6870.  @jasonhannon4735  I don't think that will happen somehow, but don't we have the same situation already if people don't pay taxes, especially if they refuse to pay rather than not being able to afford to pay? What about all the people in the UK who can no longer feed themselves and their families and rely on food banks ? I don't see people making such a big fuss about that, but the TV licence issue enrages them. Food is essential. TV is not.
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  6871.  @howardjones7370  If you have collected verifiable proof that they have broken the terms of their charter in terms of impartiality, write to the governors of the BBC and send it to them. Their charter requires them to be balanced which means if they have people with one opinion they have to balance it out (not necessarily in the same show but over a reasonable time) with opposing opinions. I suspect what people think of as bias, is hearing, from a range of views, the views they dislike. So many people now can select media sites that only reflect their own bias that they are less and less used to hearing opposing viewpoints.
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  6872. @muckergee Gosh! You have extra sensory powers. Not. You also made a lot of other errors such as 'de rigueur', you're... actually .. Brighton...don't...Also.. The head....BBC. If you are going to use a French phrase, make sure you know how to spell it. Was that admission of bias from a new head of the BBC that the government had a hand in appointing? Presumably he'll do his job to kow tow to the government now.
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  6873. It's meant to give you facts not agree with ignorance. 158 people would prefer to remain ignorant it seems.
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  6874.  @DK-ck6ye  That's because it's a hard Brexit.
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  6875.  @williamacheson3569  Ah, a Welshman. I don't know that I have a favourite. There are so many good actors. I think maybe John Hurt but he's dead now.
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  6876. He was also incompetent but because he didn't achieve much he didn't spook the markets. Things under him were getting more and more snarled up and he knew no way out.
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  6877.  @spinofthewheel5345  Or perhaps never got involved with her horrible husband.
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  6878. Nah. We won't have Putin's and Trump's crony in power here.
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  6879. working on the hypothesis.
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  6880. He's setting out the new government's intentions as expressed in the King's Speech. Normal Parliamentary procedure.
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  6881. Have you been at the sherry again?
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  6882. Oh for goodness sake, why are we so precious about the colour of the passport? Doesn't anyone know that we could have had blue passports within the EU? Croatia is within the EU and has blue passports.
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  6883.  @patsmith2571  Here's a criticism of India's plans https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/oct/21/spaceexploration-india. Maybe people in countries which have taken part in moon travel already feel it would be hypocritical to criticise the plan of others. Critics in Russia of course would end up in a gulag and critics in China would never be heard of again.
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  6884.  @mrn8645  Justice is not about targeting. If you have broken the law you are accountable for that. Whingeing about being targeted doesn't cut it.
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  6885.  @mrn8645  Well if you're unlucky enough to get caught having broken the law, tough luck. No sympathy from me.
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  6886. Who can (William) tell?
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  6887. You're supposed to put drowning victims on their side so they can cough up any water in their lungs and vomit up any water from their stomach. He had the rabbit on its back at first, but the rabbit started to revive once he put him on his side.
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  6888. Eh? You jest surely? It's English.
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  6889. Indeed, she lacks the gorm.
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  6890. This is really interesting if people haven't seen it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25JyC5Whhvc&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=16 . It's titled 'Why this former anti-abortion activist regrets the movement he helped build'. It's very revealing of why the religious right latched onto the anti-abortion campaign when at first they were completely uninterested, even against it, and it's not for reasons of religious principle as you might expect.
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  6891.  OneGxxdSpliff Hf  I made the list from just following the news over time.
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  6892. The art of Bullsh*t.
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  6893. TheReal Lifehacks Doing it in the military in those situations is different from any person with a mental illness getting their hands on weapons as a private citizen. The military also screens people before they accept them in the army. The army does not recruit mentally ill people and give them guns.
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  6894. It's been a game of musical chairs and buggins turn
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  6895.  @ervie60  Don't forget that the royals also have Scottish ancestry through the Queen Mother and Prince William has English ancestry through his mother, Princess Diana, and Prince George has English ancestry from both his parents.
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  6896. Simple not simplistic. Simplistic means overly simple. It's a criticism.
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  6897.  @Robert-hf6dw  Yes there is a row on record because it was recorded by the neighbours and passed to the police and the newspapers. It's not that they're not allowed to row, but the nature of the row sounded like she was in danger, that's why the police were called.
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  6898.  @jujutrini8412  Though it's not really the train companies dragging it out. It's really the government stopping them settling. Thatcher wanted to crush the miners union. Today's Tory government wants to crush the railworkers' unions in order to savagely cost cut on services for the public and terms and conditions and jobs of railworkers. The government actually did an assessment of how long they thought the railworkers could afford to hold out but they were drastically wrong. The rail workers learned from the miners and don't call all out strikes but periodic ones.
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  6899. Everything to these people is a source of wealth creation. It has no other significance or value to them. It's football, but it could be anything else. (We need to guard our NHS too). Maybe we should be grateful to the Glazers for showing us the truth so starkly.
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  6900. Reform won't tackle this. Their interests are the same as the wealthy elite (freeholders and landlords). They are to the right of the Tories ideologically. Besides we want work MPs don't we? We don't want ones that don't work but sit on their assets and directorships doing nothing while the money flows into them.
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  6901.  @barneybear1971  The new rules came in before 2014 as I experienced it. Many people may have not known until a short time before that so they have been campaigning since, 10 years at least.
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  6902. If you listened to the interview he was rejected twice but the government has lost track of a lot of failed asylum seekers, 17000 of them. This government never wants to pay for the services that would apply proper controls whether it's border controls, safety checks, or keeping track of asylum seekers, assessing their claims and deporting failed asylum seekers.
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  6903. Yes the Taliban submit to the will of their imaginary friend.
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  6904.  @SakinahHur  I may have offended you by displaying a lack of belief in your beliefs but that's freedom as you say. As for it being barbaric, I don't think it's as barbaric as stoning people to death or cutting off their heads hands or feet. I'll risk endurance of infinite misery, rather than living within those rules that inflict such misery on others.
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  6905. I don't understand the appeal of Corgis. They look like they have bodies that are too fat and legs that are too short.
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  6906. Trump knows how to press the fear and conspiracy buttons, but in power he didn't do anything to help ordinary people, just managed to sound as though he would.
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  6907.  @Adamstankevitch  Years to prepare for Brexit? Businesses were not told at the time of the Referendum that it would be a hard Brexit but even if they assumed it would be, without knowing the government and EU arrangements for trade after Brexit, how can they prepare? They don't know what standards they'll need to meet or what documentation they'll need to have. The government has never told them and still can't tell them because the government itself doesn't yet know.
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  6908.  @friarjaxmost-holy.17.46  The only sane part of the government now, you mean.
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  6909.  SCOTT UK  Some people are stupid. The Lords won't block a bill of a government with a large mandate. They are just suggesting minor changes to make it work more smoothly. The government is stupid if it kicks against that.
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  6910.  @friarjaxmost-holy.17.46  Good luck with that.
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  6911.  @friarjaxmost-holy.17.46  Good luck with that. The proof of the pudding will be in the eating as they say.
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  6912. @Jerry C 2 rather nasty countries in terms of their current leaders and policies.
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  6913.  @friarjaxmost-holy.17.46  Huh?
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  6914.  @jax17.43  I have faith in facts, not in dreams.
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  6915.  @friarjaxmost-holy.17.46  Don't expect much from the Yanks. They will want to squeeze us for all they can and get us to lower health,safety and food standards in order to buy their lower standard, less safe products. I think boris will find he's only succeeded in shooting himself in the foot.
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  6916. If the government thinks it's o.k for them to break the law, criminals will argue that it's o.k for them to break any laws they don't like either. Conservatives have always promoted themselves as the 'party of law and order'. That's a joke now.
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  6917. No censorship or defunding.
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  6918. As an older person growing up in the UK, I feel we need to kick the Tories out, a.s.a.p as they are the ones doing most damage to the country.
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  6919. It's money that rules football. The countries and teams with the most money in football can buy the best players and those players get the best experience at the top level of football which gives their national teams an advantage.
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  6920. That's why they had such an affinity for each other. Putin's a dictatorial criminal and Trump is a criminal who wishes to be a dictator and admires other dictators.
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  6921. What I want to know is what happened to the man? Did he survive? He was bleeding from his ear and it was forming a pool under his head. He seemed to lose consciousness as his phone fell from his hand. There was a similar case a few years ago in England, a man, Ian Tomlinson, was pushed by a policeman. He fell and died shortly afterwards. He was trying to get home and was walking away from police at the time when he was pushed from behind. Here is the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HECMVdl-9SQ
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  6922.  @grimnir8872  I don't know what you are referring to. Have they perhaps been doing random sampling in those audits? There are states that have matched every vote to the machine tally and find no discrepancies. There are audits that have been carried out many times and find no evidence of cheating. There has been no evidence of fraud provided that ever stood up in a court case, though many court cases were attempted. The Trumpists by now have had a long time to find fraud. Even their most ardent supporters couldn't find evidence of it. They allege it without proof that's all.
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  6923.  @ClassicHarleyQuinn  'would've or would have' not would of. It's not surprising that those most susceptible to conspiracy theories are the least educated.
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  6924.  @whysa4  Nation World News stated that 'The review found that President Joe Biden won Arizona, but it raised UNFOUNDED questions about aspects of the election.' The capital letters are mine. Unfounded means there's no evidence to back them up.
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  6925. Yes, These right wing parties love to abolish any media that criticise them or subject them too rigorous scrutiny. What does that remind me of? Oh yes. The man with the pencil moustache.
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  6926. Assange is no angel. He has his own agenda and releases information selectively to influence elections.
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  6927. This is the Trumpist playbook in action. These are people that support a man that was allowing destruction of the Amazon rain forest - the man who did nothing to protect people from Covid, a macho sexist.
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  6928. I've had many vaccinations in my life and I'm still alive.
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  6929.  @AlwaysAC  Smallpox has been eradicated so they don't vaccinate for it any more.
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  6930. It won't make any difference as we are not likely to know, but isn't it better to be masters of our own world than to find out there's some other species that might find and dominate you?
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  6931.  @sleeknub  Well to my mind if some other species dominates you, you are no longer a master of your own world. You are subservient. ( Our planet, yes, that's the only world we have at present).
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  6932.  @sleeknub  I agree it's not the same. I never said it was. I've said 'might' as I've allowed for uncertainty because no one truly knows. However if aliens from elsewhere in the Universe found us, they would have to be more technologically advanced to have reached us, so it's not unreasonable to allow for the fact that they might dominate us. I've been commenting hypothetically. Did you not get that?
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  6933.  @sleeknub  We are a long way from having the technology that will allow us to visit distant Galaxies etc even to find if there is alien life, but there's no harm in you dreaming we'll do it. Personally I think we're polluting the Earth and I would not want us to pollute any other part of the Universe.
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  6934.  @sleeknub  Yes I read it. but your comment was originally in response to mine or Brian Cox's and neither of us was talking about alien life in our Galaxy because neither of us believes there is likely to be any in the same Galaxy. Did you listen to what Brian Cox said? That's enough from me now as I think we've explored the points as far as they'll go.
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  6935.  @sleeknub  It's to do with the rarity of the likely events and conditions that create life. I'm with Brian Cox on that one. Can't say more really. It's an assessment. No one truly knows.
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  6936.  @sleeknub  No I understood what he said. When he said 1 or 2 per Galaxy, I just erred on the side of caution thinking it's more likely 1 i.e. just us, but my thoughts come within his range of possibilities. Enough now.
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  6937. jon smith. Look at Russia's track record on political murders, torture and imprisonment and the fact that Putin is on record as saying he can't ever forgive 'traitors' such as defectors. Here is some of their 'track record': Galina Starovoitova, opposition Duma Deputy killed Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia political party, shot and killed Mikhail Trepashkin jailed after a secret trial on espionage charges. Yuri Shchekochikhin, poisoned, Russian authorities refused to allow an autopsy Mikhail Trepashkin, a former KGB spy imprisoned Mikhail Khodorkovsky, sent to Siberia Nikolai Girenko, a prominent human rights defender, shot dead in his home Paul Klebnikov, editor Russian edition Forbes magazine, shot and killed in Moscow Viktor Yushchenko, anti-Russian candidate for the presidency of the Ukraine, is poisoned by Dioxin. Andrei Kozlov, shot and killed in Moscow Anna Politkovskaya, journalist, shot and killed in Moscow. Paul M. Joyal, shot in street Stanslav Markelov Russian human rights attorney shot in the back of the head Anastasia Barburova, a young journalism student. Shot in the back of the head. Moscow. Boris Nemtsov, Russian opposition politician, shot in the streets of Moscow near the Kremlin 2015 Natalia Estemirova leading Russian human rights journalist and activist,shot and killed Nikolai Glushkov – Russian businessman in the UK who had been given asylum – strangled in England Sergei Skripal – UK former spy – double agent poisoned with Novichok gas 2018 Yulia Skirpal UK daughter of Sergei Skripal poisoned with Novichok gas 2018 Sergei Magnitsky – Accountant in USSR who was investigating and exposed tax fraud by the Russian state. Imprisoned and died in prison after being beaten up. Prosecuted by the Russian state even after his death. Maxim Borodin – journalist found dying on the ground outside his 5th floor flat Mikhail Beketov – journalist left brain damaged and later died Oleg Kashin journalist left seriously injured after an assault Tatyana Felgengauer – journalist, stabbed in the neck while at work Alexander Perepilichnyy Boris Berezovsky 6 Russian Diplomats who have died since Trump's victory Alexander Kadakin – Russia's ambassador to India Andrey Malanan Senior Russian diplomat in Greece Vitaly Churkin Russian ambassador to the UN Denis Voronenkon Russian politician who had fled to Ukraine Migayas Shirinskiy Russia's ambassador to Sudan Alexander Litvinenko. KGB defector. Poisoned with Polonium. In the Crimea UN's June 2018 Crimea report accuses the Russian Federation of grave human rights violations in Ukraine. e.g multiple cases of torture e.g. Ibrahim Mirpochchaev (sic?) Crimean journalist, abducted with his father and 2 brothers. Beaten for hours, asphyxiated with plastic bags, strangled, repeatedly tasered and violated with a hard probe used to electrocute him internally. Renat Paralamov, Crimean Tartar similar tale, forced confession. Server Karametov, 76 year old with Parkinson's disease prosecuted for holding a placard in support of 70 Crimean tartars being tried for multiple simultaneous peaceful lone demonstrations. Ervin Ibragimov, Tartar leader, dragged off by men in uniform May 2016. Not seen since. Oleg Sentsov, Crimean film maker, sentenced to 20 years in gaol. Olexander Kolchenko, his assistant, sentenced to 10 years. Gennady Afanasayev beaten, suffocated, stripped, threatened with rape and jailed, to force him to testify against Oleg Sentsov. He withdrew his testimony at the trial. Nariman Memediminov, Tartar activist, forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital- a measure described by his lawyer as punitive psychiatry.
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  6938.  @markishbasedgod5251  What other people have access to that secret nerve agent produced by the Russian government and how did they get hold of it? Is Russia losing control of its military secret weapons? I don't think so. How come the agents all came from the Russian secret service and some had previously been decorated by Putin? I myself heard Putin say in a video on youtube that 'traitors' or 'treachery' was the one thing he could never forgive. Enemies of Putin in Russia tend not to live very long. I doubt the attitude to Russian enemies abroad is any different.
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  6939.  Thomas Stewart  Do I know you?
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  6940. I read that the proposal was to give £15 weekly food vouchers to children.
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  6941. Medium Buttery Never let any facts get in the way of a good old dose of prejudice. Lol.
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  6942.  @aa.a.9359  She may be thin for her size but she's pretty tall and looks quite athletic in build.
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  6943. It's 'I'll make an exception' not 'I'll take exception'. If you take exception to Trump being booed that means you don't agree with it.
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  6944. Interesting they called Medicare 'the goldmine that needs to be hit'. A gold mine for the oligarchs that is.
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  6945. Farage talks as if there was no complexity in moving out of the EU and no real time needed to be allowed for it. crazy.
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  6946. The French actually offered to put more people on the border quite some time ago if the British erected more border posts and the British refused. Were many of these Ministers just following or accepting Boris's lies about border checks without checking? I can't believe their civil servants weren't telling them those statements were wrong. Remember when the public was told that 'we've had enough of experts' when those experts tried to explain the true position.
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  6947. Don't look to Shakespeare for historical accuracy. He changed things for dramatic purposes, and in his time Queen Margaret would have been played by a man. For history, read a history book or watch a documentary.
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  6948. @Aisling What excuse? I'm not disagreeing with you.
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  6949. I think the politicians are to blame because when this started up decades ago, they took no action to nip it in the bud. They didn't seem to care, I believe that's because they thought it was restricted to one community.
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  6950.  @JohnThomas-hv3nd  knives
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  6951. O no. They are fascists at heart and would fix things so that they could never be removed afterwards. They are also full of bullshit themselves.
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  6952. @mr grumps That's superficial. I vote for people on the basis of their policies, not their personas.
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  6953. @mr grumps Nothing wrong with being wealthy except when the wealthy club together as a cartel to rig everything in their favour and against the general population.
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  6954. @mr grumps Labour.
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  6955. @mr grumps These https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WknQQHuFcXc&list=LL&index=1&t=497s
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  6956. @mrgrumps3062 Yes it does matter if you are in power and corruptly benefitting the wealthy at the expense of the rest of the population.
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  6957.  @dave710  Glad to amuse.
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  6958. This was the sort of touching faith people had in Hitler. Will people never learn?
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  6959. Netanyahu did seek the conflict though. He evicted some Palestinians from East Jerusalem to give their land to Israeli settlers and following protests about that he invaded a Mosque, and he knew these actions would spark a conflict. He's doing it to distract from the legal action against him and from being sent to jail - the shyster.
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  6960. Very one sided and divisive presentation by Tice.
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  6961.  @Steaks652  And Trump is mature is he?
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  6962. *woman. Women is plural.
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  6963.  @mickbmx  Give it a rest.
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  6964.  @mickbmx  Now you are being silly.
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  6965. Worse than Johnson, Gove, Braverman, Failing Grayling and Useless Eustace, bullying Raab and Priti Patel?
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  6966.  @kevintravis5123  Diane Abbot faithfully served her constituents for over 30 years and she regularly voted in Parliament to help people unlike many Tory MPs who regularly vote to harm people. As for Tory Ministers they have even more power to harm people and cause chaos and they certainly did for the most part. Remember Failing Grayling with the railways, bullying Priti Patel who often went off piste, Truss collapsing the economy. Johnson's lies and incompetence and huge waste of public money, Hancock and Dorries going awol to appear on celebrity TV shows. Dorries not appearing in Parliament for the best part of a year, Braverman the Attorney General who didn't know the law or didn't care to comply with it, despite being in the so called 'party of law and order' Sunak's failure on immigration, Raab the bullying Minister and Foreign Secretary who decided to stay away on holiday during the crisis in Afghanistan when the British had to evacuate. I could go on but my fingers would get tired.
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  6967. What strange anatomies they have. They have no bottom and yet they are and have assholes. They rely on their supporters being so brainwashed that they will accept anything they say and any behaviour they display.
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  6968. So he's an expert on economics now, is he?
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  6969.  @andycapp3867  I've watched some of his TV history programmes and my husband pointed out some mistakes he'd made. Perhaps his researchers let him down but you'd think he'd know himself.
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  6970. ESC Potato. Gabon is a former French colony that is rich because of oil. There are Spanish enclaves in North Africa. Ceuta is one.
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  6971. How do you know?
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  6972. It's to do with whose interests are really represented by Farage and his gang.
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  6973. He's financed, not his financed?
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  6974. Go back to your TV or video game.
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  6975.  @MdImranMajor  Whatever you think of the material world, it may be all we have. Religions serve their purpose to make people behave better (generally) and be content with a less than perfect world in the hope of something better afterwards. They also give great power to the interpreters of religious texts. I can see why they were needed in the chaos of the centuries in which they appeared, but I think we should try to improve man's experience on Earth and the way he treats the Earth, and his fellow citizens, whether or not there is an afterlife, and I don't bank on that. What we should not do is be cruel and inhumane to each other and especially not for having different beliefs and opinions.
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  6976. They don't seem very distressed that their daughter was capable of such monstrous behaviour.
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  6977. His reply is illogical. He veers of from why they should not have a windfall tax as they don't have any real reasons for that. People are not just facing a 'tough time'. They are facing disaster.
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  6978. *Reepicheep
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  6979.  @danielcooper1294  No worries.😊
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  6980. It's not normal to do so, if they are in custody, until they have been charged.
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  6981. I was able to turn down my volume thus saving energy. Very handy.
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  6982.  @MarkBrydondrums85  Although the labour conference voted on no immigration controls - last I heard him say was the party hadn't yet decided their policy. They were going to discuss it. I agree it would be foolish to have completely open borders. However the Tories SAY they are going to have controls but then they don't fund the services that are supposed to apply those controls so that they can do so effectively. Thatcher cut the numbers of what used to be called customs officers and are now called border controls. I don't think anyone since has restored their numbers. Also if we have a hard Brexit, don't rely on the French to stop illegal immigrants coming across the channel to Britain. Without any agreement they will just be waving them through.
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  6983. *Nazi. For the sake of community and world health, yes. or does selfishness trump everything else now?
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  6984.  @michaelcaine2405  I've done loads and loads of research. Have you, or are you just listening to your preferred conspiracy theories?
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  6985.  @Julia56401  Do I have to explain further for the 'hard of understanding'?
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  6986.  @Julia56401  I'm not in a little world. It's you that is - stuck in front of your computer swallowing silly conspiracy theories.
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  6987.  @Julia56401  I take my information from multiple sources that take it from the science and the experience of medics in the front line, not from fantasy sites. Feel pity and laugh all you like. It's good for your health, unlike conspiracy theories which are very very bad for your health.
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  6988.  @Julia56401  Do you take your standard of honesty from Donald Trump? We can't be reading the same material, or you are being very selective in what you look at.
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  6989.  @svetlanaprice5896  😆 😂😁
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  6990.  @svetlanaprice5896  It's not over yet. If you want to risk your health, go ahead. Why not test your approach by volunteering in a care home or a hospital? 🤞 Whatever you say to me won't change the science.
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  6991.  @svetlanaprice5896  You're bonkers. The pandemic came from contact with wild animals in China, prepared for the eat market in Wuhan. The scientists have looked at it and agree that it's not man made. If it's planned depopulation it's not very effective, it's much more effective at hitting the economies which is hurting every country that has it and people at all levels in those countries. If you wanted to depopulate there are far more efficient ways of doing it. I really can't be doing with people who are paranoid enough to believe every crackpot theory. I'm not going to exchange comments with you any more as you are not rational and you have no evidence to back these theories.
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  6992. Why move so many troops to the border with Ukraine and build so many military field hospitals, if they are not intending to use them? Putin even threatened the use of nuclear weapons though he acknowledged there would be no winners in that scenario. Didn't Hitler have the same kind of build up before invading other countries? Why does Putin lie about withdrawing troops when he's clearly adding to them?
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  6993.  @davidphilip7249  I'm not saying other countries are not at fault but 2 wrongs don't make a right. Are you trying to justify an invasion of Ukraine? I've already explained about the build up of troops. I thought the sanctions were if Russia invaded Ukraine.
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  6994.  @davidphilip7249  No, I care when all countries do wrong. Perhaps he seeks to use some sanctions as a deterrent with more to come if an invasion happens. Personally I think you make it clear that sanctions will happen if there's an invasion.
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  6995. They are all arrogant.
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  6996. P.S. The British government has just given themselves the right to strike break by bringing in Agency workers (just like P&O).
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  6997.  @Anthsytar  Agreed but unfortunately many of the public in the UK don't seem to realise the benefits of strong unions as they are constantly told by the government and the media that unions are bad things, who are greedy and who cause unnecessary disruption and strikes, so the government can then get away with union bashing and it only cares about rich capitalists enriching themselves. It doesn't really care much about workers as long as it can get enough votes from them to stay in power.
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  6998.  @KernowDamo  Since the Tories have been in power.
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  6999. Because Covid can attack organs including the heart.
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  7000.  @johnfletcher1611  I don't normally shout out abuse. I just made an exception here because I'm getting fed up with people's lazy ignorance. I will remove 'you plonker' from my previous post'. Science is not a left/right issue. It's about verifiable facts.
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  7001. A candidate with half a brain is half a brain more than Trump. November the 3rd, expel the turd.
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  7002.  @johnwoodlief9535  That would be a step up from Trump for them though.
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  7003. As the government has taken control of railways and is paying rail companies a flat fee for running them, the companies themselves have no financial flexibilty to make offers to the Unions. That's why the government needs to be involved, but this government won't get involved because it actually wants a battle with the Unions. They want to crush them to bring in their own agenda of cuts (no guards, no manned ticket offices, even fully automated trains - no drivers). They also like strikes as a distraction from their other woes, as they know that strikes play well for them with the public and badly for Labour.
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  7004. *inaction or lack of action
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  7005. Veles7. Actually it seems to be getting most views from English (and perhaps other) people objecting to the casting than from people rushing to see the play, so I'm not sure they banked on getting a greater audience through this casting, but undoubtedly felt they should cast her on merit.
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  7006. Very witty.
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  7007. @Amanda Hughes And yet they keep him in post.
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  7008. In that case, none of the front bench Tories have the ability.
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  7009.  @johng1634 I wasn't a Hillary supporter as such. I live in the UK. I never believed that Iraq had WMD because there was evidence that the report in the UK that said it had been tinkered with to beef it up, and it didn't originally say that. I do believe Assad gassed his own people. There was evidence of the patients suffering in hospital and Assad is a nasty piece of work. Accounts emerged from Syria of children being tortured in front of their parents and he had a reputations for torture before the civil war broke out. That's generally why people rebelled against Assad including some soldiers in his army. He targeted the tribal/ethnic groups that were not his own, much like Saddam Hussein targeted and gassed the Kurds in Iraq. Of course the footage was shot by anti- Assad rebels. Those victims were not going to get treatment in areas controlled by Assad and they didn't live in areas controlled by Assad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_chemical_weapons_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War
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  7010.  @collisjeanette1019  I'm sure he'd be pleased to hear that.
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  7011.  @johng1634  Well believe what you want. Reality will come to bite you or loved ones on the bum if you don't take care and listen to experts. It's not my job to protect you. As for the Assad chemical weapons videos, if they are fake, those child actors are the best I've ever seen at giving a realistic performances of choking, gasping for air and dying.
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  7012.  @johng1634  My God you really go to extremes to deny what Assad was up to, and you're determined that your interpretation is right. Believe what you choose. I'm not going to waste any more time on trying to convince you.
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  7013. The RMT hasn't had any offers from the companies where the DfT is in control as Eddie said. Get back to some research or listen better! Why should people endlessly accept cuts in real terms in pay and fire and rehire conditions to provide ever increasing profits to the already wealthy? Where is your sense of social justice or is Britain to turn into a workforce of slaves with no control over pay and conditions?
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  7014. Probably Eire (Ireland) and probably because the Irish get around..
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  7015. 3 reactors in trouble at once. That was potentially a worse scenario than Chernobyl. Were the reactor rods made of boron? At Chernobyl there was a shut down button. O.K it didn't work as expected because of a design fault, but was there no shut down button at Fukushima, and did no one think of shutting the reactors down as soon as the tsunamis were predicted or at any stage after that?
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  7016. Talking fish?
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  7017. Trump is not a 'self made billionaire'. he inherited his money, and since then had been bankrupt a few times. Someone once calculated that if he'd just left his inherited money in a bank account with modest interest he would have done better than he did by all of his business activity.
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  7018. Jacob Rees Mogg is like Jon Snow. He knows nothing. He's just able to speak confidently as if he does.
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  7019. How do you know? Would you vote for someone who just says they'll make things better? No lessons learned then.
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  7020.  @zacharyquentin-lewis1303  They were in power when there was a worldwide failure of banks and they had to spend many billions bailing them out but they didn't put the squeeze on poor people to this level.
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  7021. The way to cut low pay workers is to raise their pay.
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  7022.  @bolasworld5425  Ukraine has always been nice to its neighbours but Putin invaded Ukraine. That's not being nice to neighbours.
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  7023. It can be legally challenged. The Queen's decision can't be challenged legally but the advice the government gave her can be.
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  7024. It wasn't the police. Calls to 999 go to an emergency call handler who would then call out whichever emergency service was appropriate - in this case an ambulance.
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  7025.  @ducky765  If you ring 999 in the UK someone will say 'Emergency Services, which service do you require?' Then you say ambulance, police or fire service. In this video we pick up this call at the point where the girl has been put through to the ambulance service. She probably would not have known about the services but if she said her Mummy had fallen down the stairs they would put her through to the ambulance service.
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  7026. More to the point... these people care about their own health.
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  7027.  @robgood719  *it's 'truer'.
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  7028. And presumably this was before Sunak announced his plans to attack the sick.
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  7029. I've an appointment for my booster vaccination in a few days time. I understand it will be Pfizer. It's a bit unnerving knowing this can happen but I'm going to ask them to aspirate before they insert the vaccine. I've 3 older sisters who have had the Pfizer booster with no ill effects. I feel very sorry for this young man having to go through this.
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  7030. I wish they could turn off the immune response that causes asthma.
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  7031.  @Benzknees  Well they don't do that because they know not to. I've had the flu jab and in fact the nurse did not touch me at all. Only the needle touched me. I can't remember if she wore gloves though. Also if this is a non Covid part of the hospital, it's likely they've both been tested for Covid and that the room is frequently cleaned.
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  7032. When people are on the wrong side of justice and the wrong side of history, and they know it but they have to spout bullshit, they look as though they are suffering from high blood pressure.
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  7033. They're so naive about Trump.
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  7034. You can tell Kushner is proud of everything he is saying.
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  7035. Because it was made by English speaking production companies. Italian TV companies can make their own TV shows about this period if they wish.
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  7036. 'Couldn't care less means you don't care'. 'Could care less' means you care more than you could.
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  7037.  @Blueblood1873  Do they not transport animals and fish to the market?
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  7038.  @seekingjustice2079  How do you know this?
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  7039. Trump is not in a position ( no moral high ground) to throw stones at Biden over corruption, having diverted campaign funds to his children for their personal spending.
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  7040. Henry VI was the only English King also crowned King of France though he was never really accepted there, but he grew up and gave it away.
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  7041.  @thejudge9812  Which vaccine?
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  7042.  @crapbag426  O, thank you for that kind thought.
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  7043.  el nino  It's not the safest if you get Covid and are in a risk category.
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  7044.  @e4billyb  Thank you.
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  7045.  @vivabielsamot5828  What a Jeremiah you are. You must be fun at parties. There's no need to worry about it since you're not having it.
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  7046.  @vivabielsamot5828  On the contrary, I have said that people need to make up their own minds whether to have the vaccine or not. I've made up my mind but people keep attacking me for it. I think they should mind their own business. What I decide is not their business. I don't tell them what to do and they shouldn't try to tell me what to do. They are entitled to their opinions and I'm entitled to mine, but they are not entitled to bully people to act according to their opinions.
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  7047.  @vivabielsamot5828  Thank you.
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  7048. How many lies in this speech, did anyone count? Buying votes isn't that illegal?
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  7049.  @kedz2936  How is reporting what someone says, corrupt?
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  7050.  @philcav9891  You have to be unedcuated and know nothing about pandemics or science to believe what you've just said. Education in one form or another got us this far, or would you rather stay in cavemen times?
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  7051.  @Yorkyscott  On the contrary. Lack of education means more easily indoctrinated or manipulated.
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  7052.  @thefrenchruraldream8069  No because when things are that new it takes a while before enough evidence can be gathered and analysed. Science is not an instant process. Conspiracy theories can be an instant process though.
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  7053.  @Yorkyscott  Sadly not so. Education enables critical thinking, assessment, comprehension, historical context and an understanding of basic science and the scientific process. Lack of education means people often don't even have a basic understanding of science, what it is and the scientific method. It means they are more likely to latch on to simple but inaccurate explanations.
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  7054.  @James-gf9jl  The exit strategy for what? There are hardly any measures in place now.
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  7055.  @Trancedd  I do believe there are conspiracies from time to time (or I would categorise many of them as balls ups followed by cover ups) but not global ones. Globally the nations of the world can't seem to agree on anything, let alone agree a global conspiracy and make it lasting and keep it secret. There's no evidence of that and people who latch on to those ideas seem to be those who are not educated enough to understand how world economies work. Most of the world lives in a capitalist system and that has certain pressures and ways of working that will play out worldwide. They are pressures inherent in how the sytem works - not a load of worldwide shady characters plotting in some indefinable way. I don't know why you think I think that corporate narratives are always valid. That's not the case. Corporate business will cover up when it can but you seem to think there's a whole conspiracy level which includes corporations, governments, scientists, the public sector and I don't know what. You do not seem to recognise when information is honest and valid.It's like when people lose trust in what they are being told, in the end they can no longer tell truth from lies,and that's the real damage of all the lies that now pervade governments and corporations, but the truth is still there to be found. It's just not recognised by many, when it's seen. Democracy is an important thing which allows us to kick out government and express our views. Distrust anyone who takes measures to decrease democracy, to make it difficult to vote, or to pack the judiciary and the executive with government friends and supporters. A certain amount of that will always happen but there are checks and balances which should not be removed. In the end voters choose who they will listen to and the less educated they are the more they can be persuaded to blame scapegoats for the problems of the country or the economy. That's a sad fact. I wish it wasn't so,
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  7056.  @pablolowenstein1371  I think bullshit detectors exist at all levels of society. The most vulnerable get hit the hardest so hopefully most of them see through the bullshit but how do they see through it? Are they then they then attracted to simplistic violent solutions aimed at scapegoats? The government can ignore the interests of those who don't vote and rely on the vulnerable feeling hopeless and apathetic but those most adversely affected have the numbers to make a real difference if they would only vote. Ignore the rhetoric and the patriotic veneer and look at what's actually on offer for them (or not on offer) in the manifestos before voting.
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  7057. What was wrong with him? Did he say to her that it was an anxiety attack?
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  7058. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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  7059. Lol. It took me a while to realise you were referring to Prince Charles.
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  7060. She's just thinking 'This rat lied to me and now I'm forced to read his speech'. She's a bit broken up about it.
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  7061.  @SOak145  The Irish would hate to be referred to as British (technically or otherwise) having fought for so long to gain the independence they now have.
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  7062.  @mark_1033  *barely
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  7063. It's almost a full time job keeping up with the chaos created by Trump, and I think that's how he likes it.
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  7064. What's your problem with women? Why do you use them in sneering references? 'It sounds like it was written by a 13 year old girl'. At least they hired an all female production team. That should get it back on track' (said sarcastically) I've not watched ROP and don't intend to. it sounds bad, but at least I listened to your review without thinking it can't be a good review because it was done by a man.
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  7065.  @notmyworld44  Never heard of Ingrid Bergman's daughter before? Not a film fan?
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  7066. Makes a change from Viking days.
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  7067. It was Corbyn who promised free TV licences for over 75s, not Boris.
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  7068.  @jpw6893  The BBC were given the responsibility of deciding about the free TV licences by the government but given no money for it, so they would have had to cut programmes to do it, and they are already showing too many repeats because of reduced funding.
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  7069. They'll be dressed in hazard outfits, you can bet.
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  7070.  @lrm3924  If you prove positive you stay in your house for treatment or are brought to hospital by ambulance if you are too ill to stay. It's no good going to a GP or A&E by yourself and contaminating those places where there are lots of people who are mostly ill already. I'm not sure why you would think it's militarized. It's the NHS staff who would be coming, not the military.
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  7071.  @karenchance6098  I don't think we have a great problem yet. There haven't been any cases reported here for some days, which is a good sign, but yeah, if it really took off I can't see there being enough staff to visit everyone's homes.
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  7072.  @karenchance6098 Sorry to hear about your Dad. I don't like to think about the worst case scenarios.
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  7073.  @karenchance6098  Thank you.
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  7074.  @lrm3924  Let's hope so.
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  7075.  @lrm3924  I think the people being housed on military bases may be the ones that have come back from abroad that need to be in quarantine. Round our way there is a designated hospital for those sick with Covid 19.
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  7076.  @lrm3924 Think about it for a moment. The sheer numbers (planeloads) of returnees would overwhelm many hospitals who are already under Winter pressures. You have to have special arrangements set up and hospitals are not all designed for quarantine arrangements. If they turn out not to be ill they wouldn't need to be in hospital and would just be blocking beds that sick people need. The government probably can't take the chance that everyone would observe quarantine in their own homes. They've already experienced resistance to that, so they have enacted a law which says that people can be forced to stay in quarantine. It's much easier and less expensive to 'police' that if everyone is in the same place. Not all hospitals have secure units and of those that do, it's mostly for seriously mentally ill patients.
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  7077.  @lrm3924  Who is indoctrinating me? I think in the UK there less paranoia about our government than in the USA about theirs, and certainly the NHS is a well loved service seen as being very caring and on people's side. You can't overload it with people who only need to be in quarantine with no signs of sickness. In fact there's news today that the first lot of people in quarantine have now been released.
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  7078.  @lrm3924 Thanks. I just read the news every day, that's all but I did also work in the health sector at one time.
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  7079. I would spend as much time as possible daydreaming that I was elsewhere or reading or thinking about things, ideas, problems, nice memories, whatever. Thinking time can be valuable in working things out, planning for the future or generating creative ideas. Another idea is to engage in conversation with someone if that's possible. It can be enjoyable and make the time go quicker. if that didn't work I'd be screaming. 'Get me out of here' (only joking). I'd bring a sedative in case I panicked.
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  7080. JRM, Minister for revenge and being a shyster. Frances Maude did such a bad job that he cocked up pension reform and it cost billions to put it right. The Tories have always hated the civil service despite the fact that they are the people that implement the Tories hateful or stupid policies. They already don't have enough people to collect tax, issue passports or implement Brexit border controls. When they are short they hire expensive private consultants at around £1000 a day so it's a false economy to cut civil servants. In any case the Civil Service has already been cut by the Tories to the tune of 500,000 jobs since 2010. I can't bear to listen to any more of this chicanery.
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  7081. It's depressing hearing how little these constituents understand Tory policies and their consequences. Those who don't know why Truss didn't last as P.M, that's quite astonishing since the outcome of her policies was all over the news for some time. One guy says that was coincidence. Sheesh. Some of these probably have racist views but don't want to say so openly.
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  7082. I think the whale actually landed beside the Kayak. It looked closer than it was from a distance but the cameraman was more concerned with getting the shot of the whale than any concern about the people in the kayak.
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  7083. @AL AL Because 1) private care siphons off funds as profits whereas a public service does not and 2) Co-operation between different parts of the service is much easier in a public service. Private service contracts work against co-operation because private firms are in competition with each other and don't want to share information that might give competitors an edge, and because private firms will only do what's in their contracts, so it would not be easy to switch resources around to areas of highest priority as needed in situations such as this pandemic. Also private companies only normally want to cherry pick 'low cost' cases for maximum profit.
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  7084. @mhffc It's not 'open to the world' If those who are not entitled to use the NHS engage in 'health tourism' they have to pay for it. People who do not pay are those where there are 'reciprocal arrangements' which means countries have agreed not to charge each other for treating people who fall sick while on holiday or while living abroad temporarily - such as happens in the European Union with the EHIC card. That means British tourists would also get free treatment in EU countries (before Brexit anyway). The only foreigners without 'reciprocal arrangements' who would get free treatment under the NHS, are those who need emergency treatment.
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  7085. @mhffc In 2010 When the Labour government left office, the NHS was ranked top or near top among the world's health systems, the annual patient survey produced the highest ever satisfaction levels and the waiting lists were the shortest ever. It's the Tories that have damaged it since then and they spent £3 billion on a bureaucratic re-organisation. It's not the NHS that needs scrapping, it's the Tory government. The UK spends less as a percentage of GDP on its health service than Germany and as for Spain and Italy, they haven't been doing too well on the Coronavirus pandemic. Of course it's a joke when the Tories make it so, but if it wasn't a national service now, the Tories would be struggling to get some kind of national and co-ordinated health policies implemented. Private hospitals don't have A&E departments and people without health insurance, in a private only healthcare system would be struggling to get any care. If you want to talk about financial 'black holes' what about all the wasted money spent on defence for equipment that turns out to be late or no good. It's ironic that governments imagine the world might end in a war. It's more likely to be a virus or pollution now that's the biggest danger to our continued existence.
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  7086.  @AngelinaG.-cc5xb  No it would not. They believe in doing things in government though there won't be much money for it unless they can get the economy moving. However the Tories don' believe in government. They want to shrink government including public services and privatise as much as possible. Apart from that this is the most unstable, divided and useless government I can remember in my lifetime and they don't act to improve the lives of the British people, only to enrich the few.
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  7087.  @David-rr2bt I think he's worried about making promises he can't keep and somehow screwing up before the election by giving the Tory media ammunition to attack him. That's what they did with many previous Labour leaders and it worked. He's made some bad judgements in my opinion but compared to the Tories he will do some good when in power, I'm sure.
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  7088.  @freko106  That's the problem. The Tory media can easily destroy Labour leaders because the electorate seems to fall for all the mud slinging every time. Corbyn had a great manifesto which if enacted would have done a lot of good for the country. However I don't think Corbyn was interested in leadership. He's more of a campaigner. Also he would have had to deal with Covid which was costly and may have derailed some of this plans, and Brexit, though he did offer to hold a second referendum if I remember correctly.
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  7089.  @David-rr2bt  We have to have some optimism. Don't know how I'd have got through all these Tory years otherwise and I'm not just referring to 2010 onwards. However I live as if I'm a pessimist. I always imagine things will get worse and so I prepare for that as much as I can. That has enabled me to avoid some of the worst effects of Tory rule.
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  7090. Subtitles are there for non English speakers and for Americans
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  7091. This site gives a higher number of cases and deaths in the USA. Why the difference https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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  7092. Then 'you know nothing, John Snow'. ​@mikemyers7539
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  7093.  @seeker3507  Don't be so patronising. You mean you don't see Putin's army and tanks in Ukraine? Take off the blinkers. Yes there are other bad guys but Putin is the worst right now.
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  7094.  @seeker3507  P.S. Zelenski at least was elected in a fair election, unlike Putin who has to lock up his main opponents before elections such is the fragility of the man's ego, his dictatorial instincts, and his paranoia.
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  7095.  @seeker3507  Zelenski was voted into power. You call yourself Seeker but you haven't found it yet - the truth anyway.
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  7096. Kyle Fear. One group takes the land of others and kicks them off it. Victims are aggrieved and fight back. Victors basically lock them up on a small strip of land and impose an economic blockade. Victims still feel aggrieved and still try to fight back. Victors enlist help of Trump. Victims feel even more aggrieved. Basis of peace negotiations has been blown out of the water.
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  7097. Who was on before him?
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  7098. He sounds like he has COPD.
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  7099. In the UK most appointments with GPs are 10 minute slots. I'm not sure how long GPs listen for, but at some point they switch to thinking what shall I say and what shall I prescribe. Sometimes several visits are required to get to the true diagnosis.
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  7100.  @timboatfield  Easy. His face reminds me of Kermit's
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  7101.  @TheLinkedList  I didn't know that character. Just looked him up. He looks like an angry alien. Not a bad match.
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  7102.  @louiseanderson3619  Does it follow the science? Are most of the scientists signed up to this channel and its 'facts'? I'm not going to listen to more conspiracy theories that ignore scientific consensus.
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  7103.  Rad Derry  *led. My brother in law was in hospital with Covid 19 and they were pressing my sister to have him at home though she wasn't allowed to visit him in hospital because of Covid 19. They said to her 'the government wants us to free up the beds'. The NHS can only do what the government funds it to do, and they were at one time almost overwhelmed by Covid cases, so I don't blame the NHS. The government also ordered the NHS to send untested patients back from hospital to care homes. The guidance was on the government website admitting these patients might be infected but the guidance said something like 'care homes are equipped to deal with them', only they weren't. I don't trust the government on everything but I do trust the science. The government doesn't always follow the scientists advice though.
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  7104.  @heminder  But do scientists in general accept their findings? It sounds like they are cherry picking the bits of scientific papers to support a theory and ignoring parts of the science that don't support it.
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  7105. The Tory's final statement at the end was 'that you can't have wage increases' unless they are backed by improvements in productivity, but this is about increases for wages to maintain their value, in real terms, in light of inflation. They are not increases in real terms. Without them it's effectively a real terms cut in the value of wages.
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  7106. You need to learn more about social democracies. There are republics in Europe that are social democracies.
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  7107. A country can develop itself but it only earns money by selling abroad.
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  7108. The federal judges are stopping or pausing some of it but it takes a while for legal processes to happen. Trashing things, ignoring the law and all rules is much faster. I believe some one is moving for impeachment but Congress is dominated by Republicans. It would take some of them to abandon Trump but though they may not agree with him, they may fear him.
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  7109. She's not charming except in the understanding of a snake charmer.
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  7110. True to what? True to his lunacy?
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  7111.  @davedave4699  This is a quote from Khan's spokesperson in City a.M London newspaper.
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  7112.  @davedave4699  It's not all down to the Mayor. his fares freeze was estimated by TfL to cost £1.9 bn but they were £11bn in debt in recent times before Covid. That was mainly due to longstanding problems with Crossrail, a time and budget overrun. Crossrail is a massive longstanding project not a Khan initiated project. The government also withdrew £700m p.a. support from TfL. Before the Covid Khan had reduced its operating debt by 71% and increased its cash balance by 16% but Covid reduced its income by 90%. You can look all this up yourself. I'm a bit fed up of looking up all the info for you. Here is a list of the cost of Boris as London Mayor. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/what-boris-johnson-being-mayor-has-actually-cost-london-10491163.html P.S A National Audit Office Report on Crossrail said "By 2015, problems started to emerge on Crossrail and opportunities to change approach were missed,” said the report, adding that the sponsors, the UK’s Department for Transport and Transport for London, “had few effective contractual levers to enable them to take action as they had provided Crossrail Ltd with a high degree of autonomy”  (Boris was Mayor of London until May 2016 and The Department of Transport was a government department under Tory control in 2015)
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  7113. Chris Bryant has said he would take no part in the process. Did you not know that or are you just conveniently ignoring it? The majority on the committee are Tories, so if you think it's biased you must think the Tories are biased against one of their own.
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  7114. Lol it's not Xi Xi Ping. It's Xi Jinping.
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  7115. *surrender
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  7116. You mean ignorance is close you your heart?
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  7117.  @Felix-rising  You mean its their fault we have this shower in power?
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  7118. Charles sometimes looks appalled, and sometimes as though he's nodding off.
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  7119. Now she's said what she heard and saw and said that other people heard and witnessed the same things. It will be up to the others involved to give their version
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  7120.  @patriciasullivan2817  You haven't been researching.Jacob Rees Mogg who is pro hard Brexit, relies on economist Patrick Minford in support of this, but even Minford says a hard Brexit will destroy British agriculture and manufacturing.
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  7121.  @jb175  Neither was Labour's Manifesto full blown socialist. As I said it was more along Scandinavian lines.
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  7122.  @jb175  Same as with Corbyn's plans. They did not remove capitalism.
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  7123.  @jb175  Yep. Cobyn was never proposing that the state should own all the means of production. It was more like the Scandinavian model with some differences which I mentioned in another response to you.
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  7124.  @alanbstard5584  I don't know but the work was dangerous and many suffered lung complaints and didn't live a full life span or live to collect a pension so I would have expected them to be well rewarded. The unions were necessary because in the history of mining safety was never a great concern of employers and the unions were bound to resist when Thatcher decided to close the mines because it meant the death of many communities.
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  7125. By destroying its own economy first?
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  7126. Yeast extract is also in Marmite. I thought bananas also had a lot of potassium. I eat quite a few of those foods including the top 3. My husband and I are the only people I know who have not had Covid, (touch wood) but maybe we had it and didn't realise (relatively symptomless version?). We even had relatives with Covid living with us and we didn't get it. We're pretty good at masking up and hand washing but we're not obsessive about constantly cleaning everything.
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  7127. Because the Tory government put an end to independent building control inspections of the work (by local councils) and allowed developers to hire their own building inspectors. Developer hired building inspectors want more work from the developers so let through sub standard work.
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  7128. If you go to see a doctor and you have it, you will spread it around the surgery and to other patients. Whether people will go on to get pneumonia or have a milder version of Covid 19 will depend on the strength of their immune systems which is why the elderly and those with compromised immune systems or lung diseases and diabetes are more at risk of getting sever symptoms.
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  7129. What happened to his teeth and why does he have a female name?
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  7130. He sounds insincere and unrepentant, hiding behind weasel words.
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  7131. This woman is thick. She can't understand a theoretical argument.
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  7132. Wealthy people need somewhere to invest their money and housing is seen as safe because they can always increase rents. More and more housing will be owned by large companies, many of them foreign and the UK population will have less and less control over their living conditions. We will be a population available for exploitation both at work and at home.
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  7133. Also, we are a multicultural society with a brilliant selection of musical styles to choose from. Who selects the final entries, I can only think it's people in their dotage, and if the final selection to choose from are the best of the entries, why don't we do more to encourage and shocase new talent and encourage talented composers to enter their songs. Perhaps they are put off now because the competition has a reputation for naffness. Sorry if I offend anyone, but it's a frustrating mystery.
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  7134.  @MindYaBizz_Whiz  United you stand, divided you fall. Lots of people falling right now under the idea that individuals can sink or swim on their own without help from the state. There are times when help is needed from the state and tax revenue provide for that safety net.
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  7135. You think? She's jumping on the bandwagon now.
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  7136. I'm not sure that planning was the real block on housing development. That's the developers' and the Tories' excuse but actually a lot of developers preferred to 'land bank' as long as the increase in land prices were giving them increased asset values and only build when the profit was high enough to tempt them and they could arm-twist councils into dropping the desired affordable house numbers. This was not to the benefit of house buyers and especially not to the benefit of first time buyers. She keeps saying she's pro business, so does that mean she will be gullible when dealing with them.
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  7137.  @brendadrumm9708  Um. I didn't notice anything unusual about his walk.
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  7138. Why do you repeat what Lindsey Graham says immediately after we just heard him say it? Do you think your audience does not pay attention to your video?
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  7139. I don't think that will save him.
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  7140. But he's doing it ironically.
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  7141. I'm not a fan of Meghan Markle either, and I'm also not a fan of would be dictator and underminer of democracy, Donald Trump.
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  7142. If you know each other, the virus will not allow itself to be passed on to friends will it? As any Eton fule no.
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  7143. That's the point. It's only a spoof.
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  7144.  @jasonwatson4475  How?
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  7145. This video is an eyesight test. Congratulations your eyesight is good.
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  7146. Thanks for being loud. I was able to save energy by turning down the volume.
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  7147. Starmer's not in government, so what has Starmer done to him? Nothing.
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  7148. I'm sure they do have to.
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  7149. Rupert Murdoch is 91 and controls a media empire including Sky News Australia, I believe. If ever he suffers from the effects of ageing like Biden, don't expect to read about it in his media outlets and don't expect the constant media attacks from Murdoch's outlets that Biden is, and has been, subjected to.
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  7150. What's also disturbing is that people think they can walk long distances in the mountains of hot countries without even a map or basic equipment or sometimes without even a phone or letting anyone else know where they are heading. It's easy to get lost in rugged landscapes and the Sun is unforgiving.
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  7151. Whatever China's responsibility, Trump is responsible for his late and ineffective response to Covid 19 in America. He is now trying to deflect any blame from himself by focusing his attack on China. The policy of his government is 'what can we get away with' and 'who can we blame' overlaid with Trump's own special brand of ignorance and stupidity.
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  7152. Is this because many people are attracted to those they perceive to be 'strong' leaders, even though they are complete knobheads? Trump is certainly a performer, even though it's an act, what he says is mostly lies, and he says things for effect only. He cares not a jot about anyone but himself.
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  7153. It's no good trying to deflect blame onto the Civil Service. It's always government Ministers who have responsibility and who make the final decisions. The Civil Service just executes those decisions or attempts to, even if the decisions are bonkers, but the government can't expect the Civil Service to break the law for them. That's against the Civil Service Code and against the Ministerial Code also.
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  7154.  @keithparker1346  Nothing to do with emotions. Mine is a rational position.
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  7155. This was the Queen's private pet name though. You'd think they would have sought her views beforehand. It's only polite. I'm sure she would not have minded. The problem was they told everyone she had given permission when they hadn't even told her beforehand. That was a lie. You don't involve the Queen in a lie.
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  7156. Putin is his role model, I believe.
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  7157. What, is he standing for leadership in china and Iran too? Lol
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  7158. I have in the past worked part time as a civil servant in a fast moving work area. The team members had their own areas of responsibility but would cover for each other where cases were urgent or team members were on leave. I would always leave an audit trail to where things stood in my area as I ended my part week and an email to colleagues to cover any important or outstanding decisions that needed to be communicated to them. It worked and is workable. I also worked in a geographically distant location to the rest of the team. In terms of long distance communication there was not only zoom for team meetings, I would sometimes physically travel by train to them, but also there's a lot of telephone and email interaction, and there was a system whereby several colleagues could be connected to the same telephone call. I don't think Rory's perceived problems are insurmountable. It requires some flexibility and good use of technology that's all. Rory's view that AI will get the economy going doesn't explain the mechanism whereby that will help people. Big corporations may use it AI to cut costs and generate more profit but they often don't pay much tax and with AI causing more job losses, how is the benefit of such technology to be fairly shared so as to not leave people behind economically?
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  7159. Sounds like the Princess Reema fan club in the comments, but her country still beheads people in public, exploits foreign workers, has a bad record for deaths of those workers through industrial accidents, and no free journalism. If they are looking to take a more prominent role in international affairs, are those the values they intend to pursue internationally?
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  7160.  @shathaalsaadi1858  What about workers' rights?
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  7161.  @ANAS2172  If they are in countries which are getting wealthier or are already wealthy, those countries should help the people within their country.
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  7162. You can always stay cheerful with a nice cup of Assam tea. My favourite tea.
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  7163. The best President when you look at what he has quietly achieved so far. Of course Sky News Australia is Rupert Murdoch's creature, and biased against the Democrats. They would have been happy to have that lunatic Trump back in the White House.
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  7164. Trump is creating a swamp, not clearly one.
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  7165. You can have Covid and be infectious with it for up to 5 days before you have symptoms and some people don't seem to have or notice symptoms but may be highly infectious and pass it on to others. The most infectious day is usually the day before a person notices symptoms. This information is not difficult to find and has been publicised. I'm amazed that people still don't know this. Also you should check which hospital to go to and under what conditions because otherwise you could contaminate a Covid free hospital and infect others there.
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  7166.  @matthewsmith2787  No one likes it but if it preserves life, I guess it's the thing to do. Anyway, positive cases that are not identified are those that will spread it more and make things worse.
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  7167.  @Farmynator  People are causing the problem themselves. If they'd followed the recommended guidance instead of ignoring it for some ideal of freedom to do what the hell they want, there would be no need for lockdowns.
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  7168.  @Farmynator  Calm down, review the facts and and think clearly. Lockdowns don't usually lockdown food outlets, not in every part of the world anyway. People can either work from home or employers should do their best to keep them safe and people should co-operate in those measures, washing hands, wearing masks and keeping their distance. There would not be any need for lockdowns if people had followed scientific and medical guidance in the first place. The vaccine isn't going to be mandatory, not where I live anyway. You sound as though you've been viewing sites that do their best to wind you up. People who survive Covid aren't all necessarily well. There can be long term effects and sometimes permanent damage and this can happen even in younger age groups where initial symptoms weren't bad. It's a disease best avoided. It's only so bad now in places where no meaningful controls were put in place and it went rampant.
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  7169.  @Farmynator  I'm not avoiding your questions. What questions? You just seem to rant without evidence to support it. The reason that not half the population have had it already is that some people have been following the guidance to protect themselves and others. Others live in sparsely populated areas. Many don't travel from state to state. America is very large and it would take time to spread in these circumstances. It's not worth more of my time to continue on this thread.
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  7170. Trump is running out of time though.
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  7171. Who knows? It was Page who approached her for a date, not the other way round. They are both creatives. He admired her poetry.
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  7172. manatee2500 Zhukov won victory over Hitler for the Soviet Union. He was a hero of the Soviet Union and Stalin was jealous of him. Stalin was not at all a nice person . He didn't give Zhukov the honour and prominence that was his due. Stalin never really showed gratitude to anyone except by letting them live. Even Stalin's wife shot herself because she knew what he was like and couldn't live with it. His son became an alcoholic.
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  7173. Greensill looks like Wallace from Wallace and Gromit. Tory sleaze hasn't 'returned'. It never went away.
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  7174. 'Hmm! I'm meeting Queen Elizabeth. She's not even a 2 right and she wouldn't let me grab her. Meanwhile in the US things are getting a little stormy, so I've had Stormy arrested. I want the Europeans to spend more on defense so we can sell them all of our weapons and make the US weapons manufacturers even more profitable. They like me you know'.
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  7175.  @ScottishRoss27  https://fullfact.org/online/pensions-countries-comparisons/ The OECD measures what’s called a “pension replacement rate”—which broadly speaking expresses what pensioners receive relative to their previous earnings when working. UK pensions are relatively low on this measure as well. If you just consider mandatory public and private pensions, an average UK pensioner’s income is worth 29% of their earnings at retirement, compared to 51% in Germany, 75% in France and 82% in Spain. But pensions in both the UK and Germany tend to get top-ups from voluntary pensions, which pushes their ratios to 62% for the UK and 65% for Germany when included (with the other countries staying the same).
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  7176.  @ScottishRoss27  It does. It subsidises the rest of the UK.
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  7177. If Trump succeeded, you'd have the Mafia running the country next time round and they'd quickly eliminate opponents.
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  7178. Why would he want to now he's so much older? I think it would kill them now.
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  7179. It's his job to keep the show going, whatever it takes.
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  7180. The death wish in the Tory Party is strong.
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  7181. Clearly Trump approved it and he won't care about any errors or investigate them.
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  7182. More working from home means less trade for London but that was inevitable after Covid lockdowns demonstrated that could work and people realised how much money they would save by not commuting every day.
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  7183. They probably hope that too.
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  7184. These two are an interesting mix. Varoufakis is very theoretically focussed in terms of economics and political high level strategy focussed. Jeremy Corbyn always concerned about and links his politics to the effects on people's lives in the UK. Varoufakis dreams of world movements. Corbyn refers to the connections of politicians in different countries who think alike, but I don't see that he has the ambition for taking a lead in an international movement. His focus is mainly on the UK. The Tories claim to be the most patriotic party but actually they don't invest in or promote or particularly value a British economy. They have outsourced so much of the British economy to foreign multinational companies and the social and economic model they seem to want to us emulate is that of the USA, where there are huge social divides, and huge dissatisfaction with the political elites, because of how that model is not working for the majority now.
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  7185. In the thumbnail image Hunt looks like Mr Bean.
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  7186. It's not been dropped. It's still being used in the UK.
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  7187.  @ThePizzabhoy  O.K I misinterpreted your comment as meaning the vaccine had been dropped in the UK.
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  7188. Mandleson is such a bastard. I don't know why he's even involved with the Labour Party. He seems like a closet Tory just like Tony Blair was.
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  7189. ??? Having the border for goods as a line down the Irish sea was something Boris signed up to. I believe it was a solution offered to May previously but she declined it. Boris grabbed it and signed up. He can't say he didn't know what he was doing.
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  7190. Typical Trump trying to use process to avoid process when he doesn't understand process and won't listen to advice from his lawyers.
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  7191.  @BennolikeMark  Thanks.
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  7192.  @ukchatman4920  The police were aggressive from the start in the way they spoke and handled him. That would make him fearful given previous police violence which caused the deaths of compliant suspects. He was close to home so I suspect he was trying to reach there thinking he'd be safe. The police didn't try to calm the situation. They seemed to lose their heads. The training can't be very good.
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  7193. That was Brexit thinking. Why not await the results of the election?
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  7194.  @KEVROREACTS  I've heard him making false claims directly himself in interviews.
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  7195.  @ziggystardust7888  Say the paranoid ones!
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  7196. Hitler
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  7197. Some people are lodged firmly in their delusion. She's unwilling to listen and talks over him.
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  7198. He who pays the piper calls the tune.
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  7199. Sore losers. No example of British fair play from Britain First.
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  7200. There have been lots of cases in Thailand. I think they have it under control now but you might not be able to get flights and even if you do the flight might be the biggest risk factor for catching the virus. If you need to return to the UK during the outbreak, you might not be able to either.
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  7201. Trying to make the best of things for comfort's sake.
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  7202. He's done more than Boris Johnson ever did while he was Mayor.
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  7203. How easy it is to make a mess of things. We have people talented at doing that.
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  7204. Y'all should have watched the movie 'The Apprentice' before you voted.
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  7205. *werid spelling. It's weird.
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  7206. They were all checked in Afghanistan before they were let on the planes. Did you not see the sniffer dogs sniffing the luggage, and these are people who have worked with British forces.
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  7207.  IM NOT A TROLL I JUST TROLL A LOT  About a dozen. How many will you be putting in yours?
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  7208.  the man with the green cortina  Having a green cortina. That says a lot.
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  7209. Some people would rather vote for a handsome psychopath.
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  7210. How trivial. He has a kind, intelligent face. I don't think he looks scruffy and as for importance. People who are self important are the ones I trust least. I understand that Brad Pitt wanted to make a movie about this man's life as it's been so interesting. Talking about scruffy, who is more scruffy looking than Boris Johnson but he knows people like the rumpled, eccentric look so he plays it up.
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  7211.  @jaymeeleighjx1x  Try this video by Stephen Fry then. He's not a politician https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HDFegpX5gI&feature=youtu.be
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  7212. No deal, big problems.
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  7213. Is Bigmouth still popular? He's not credible.
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  7214. I think it may be in light of a recent survey that found a lot of NHS staff were experiencing racism in the NHS. They don't have enough staff and need to keep hold of those they have.
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  7215. Good. London is too crowded anyway pushing up house prices.
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  7216.  @alexp3519  That's true, but I was responding to the guy who said he was leaving London.
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  7217.  @alexp3519  P.S. People have to live somewhere. It's second homes that are the real problem.
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  7218. @ It was just a joke. Don't take it seriously. I suppose it's not a laughing matter for Americans.
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  7219.  @twistedelegance_  I don't know about that. I've seen a number of American reviewers in Europe commenting on how the food is cheaper in Europe (or was it just the UK?)
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  7220.  @fatherandyknowles7035  Absolutely.
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  7221.  @TheZackkary1  Careful. You could be done for libel like Tommy since the court case ruled against this version of events for lack of evidence.
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  7222. Parents may have a lot of bills to cover in order to keep a roof over their heads. Universal credit can take 5 weeks to arrive and cooking increases energy bills. Gas is not so bad but cooking on electric hobs and ovens is expensive. I agree that it would be good if everyone learned to cook though.
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  7223. Bob Yorke. Hardly just a fridge fire. The whole building burnt down and killed a lot of people because of the poor cladding on the outside and lack of any measures to stop the fire spreading in spite of people raising these risks with the council over a long period. They weren't listened to. Don't you know anything? Don't you read any news?
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  7224.  @albertjemmett-waite1659  innit yourself.
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  7225. The UK earns a lot of export income from the arts which we are very good at. The government has already been cutting arts funding. Problems in the NHS are partly caused by understaffing but that's not something that can be fixed quickly because of long training lead in times and the need to make pay at least keep pace with inflation and some catch up also.
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  7226. He must be really dim to lie about facts that are easily fact checked, or he thinks the electorate is dimmer than he is.
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  7227. The doctors don't lie. Some hospitals will look empty while they are setting up new wards until those wards are filled. There are plenty of videos showing hospitals full with Covid patients, particularly from Italy and New York. There are plenty of videos of corona virus wards in hospitals if you look for them, particularly from Italy, Spain and New York. Stop swallowing all the fake news you are being fed by people who believe everything is a conspiracy of some sort. If there are areas that don't have Covid yet be grateful. Don't ignore advice until the health services are overloaded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y39Y6ANewME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y05jAk1YMPc
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  7228. It sounds like he has a terrible diet. Not enough fibre, fruit and veg, I guess. Too many burgers.
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  7229.  @Kick1066  Think how much more damage the Tories can do if elected for another 5 years. When they are not doing damage they are being useless.
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  7230.  @tabularasa7775  Such jobs were good provided people had their health and strength, ate properly and took exercise. The downward pressure on wages meant that pay for such jobs is not as good as it was and conditions are worse now, but it was good that people could succeed without going to Uni because in those times not that many did. Personal qualities also come into the equation though.
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  7231.  @robertknox4623  They could all chose to have a NHS type health system.
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  7232.  @conor1077  I thought so. Robert Knox must have made an error about that. His comment is no longer there.
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  7233. Our food standards are going to drop further post Brexit and Boris is doing no customs checks on any imports into the UK as he should be, so it's Paterson's own party that is responsible for drops in food safety. His party also cut so much of the central grant to local government that local government was forced to cut back in all sorts or areas including food inspection.
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  7234. Downplaying the role of the British? You didn't mention the battle of the Nile or the British role against Napoleon in Spain.
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  7235.  @Pashaster  Investigate the reason for the nickname and whether that triggers any alarm bells. The character of a person should be important in deciding whether they are fit to be a policeman.
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  7236. You just don't want to hear anything against your dear leader.
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  7237.  @VPhantom-rf3qo  I don't like O'Brien's style. To me it's bullying and bombastic but I distinguish between personalities and politics.
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  7238. Scottish is British
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  7239. Re Peru, did he say 'gived' instead of 'given' ? It's well known that Parisians can be rude and not just to Americans but the rest of France isn't like that. The air in South Korea doesn't look too clean in this video. 'There's no language barrier in the UK'. I wouldn't be so sure of that. Most of these places seem ruined by ugly high rise block buildings judging by the video images.
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  7240.  @timmytwatcop8764  ha ha ha. I'm not the crying type. Yes we lost but I'm still entitled to ask questions. The future will still affect me. I notice the Brexiteers who won haven't stopped moaning about things yet.
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  7241.  @4x4adventuresuk54  Can't you see the illogicality in that statement? What do you think being screwed by the EU means?
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  7242.  @4x4adventuresuk54  What does being screwed by the Eu mean?
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  7243. The actor who plays the Irish character, Colonel Despard.
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  7244.  @tonydavenport100  Read 'Private Eye'
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  7245. The elements of the deal are spelt out on the BBC news website.
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  7246.  @brianmatzen9617  Well if you think that, why not watch both sides before making your mind up on issues?
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  7247.  @brianmatzen9617  Well I don't just get my news from this page.
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  7248.  @fkitnow1488  Yes, your home. Not disputing that. Just wishing you could all get along now as equals and get back to your power sharing government and acceptance of democracy.
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  7249. Not until he's been charged.
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  7250.  @Norfolkandchance886  You might be right. Innocence until proven guilty is the presumption at a trial and if he is judged to be not guilty, would it matter that his name was mentioned when charged?
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  7251. The Tories always appoint some big moneybags as party chairman.
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  7252. Qu'importe.
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  7253. Shakespeare a ecrit des drames. Ses histoires n'etaient pas precises. C'est pourquoi j'ai dit "Qu'importe", ou plutot n'importe.
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  7254. Je connais Shakespeare tres bien aussi l'histoire. Mais en voyant le drame il faut suspend toujours l'incredulite.
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  7255. J'aime beaucoup l'histoire et je la connais bien, mais je ne me trompe pas que l'histoire et la meme chose que le drame. Bonne journee a vous aussi mon petit lapin effraye.
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  7256. @Rex Rampage He has scientific advisers and he also says one thing one day and the opposite the next. Dawn Butler also listed some other lies he told but the clip shown in this Sun video did not include those.
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  7257. Unfortunately I don't think it's genuine. It's for the benefit of manipulating the Trumpists, to get them fired up against the Democrats as if they've done something underhand and illegal.
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  7258. Ah, it's Baby Lasagne.
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  7259.  @imavileone7360  Welfare is a social safety net, paid for by taxes - policies that protect the weakest in society rather than letting them starve on the street but it can benefit everyone, not just the poorest. For instance a welfare state would include state pensions, sickness benefit, unemployment benefit, maternity benefit and healthcare free at the point of use. Sometimes it includes state subsidised public transport, state ownership of utilities such as gas, water and electric systems.
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  7260.  Jimbus Rift  Heavy regulation is needed to prevent or deter fraudulent behaviour and anti-competitive practices. Welfare systems are needed to prevent or deter revolution. Tax is the price we pay for civilisation.
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  7261.  Jimbus Rift  Sounds interesting but isn't that the same as tax, basically, only taxing more heavily?
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  7262.  @EricssonRotaryBiscuit  Yes. I remember the last Labour government and all their achievements.
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  7263.  @aleccap5946  Starmer's more centrist than left, and Blair had a lot of achievements to his name in spite of his biggest mistake in allying with the USA in their invasion of Iraq.
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  7264.  @EricssonRotaryBiscuit  Would you like me to list them?
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  7265. When you are wealthy living in these countries is a very different experience than when you are poor, obviously. As for those 3 countries, I don't like the modern architecture of Malaysia and it would also be too hot for me. I don't know much about Serbia except that they once had genocidal tendencies towards the Bosnians. They sound rather intolerant and jingoistic. I would choose Mexico of the 3 but the crime and poverty levels bother me. Isn't it ironic that Americans want to live in Mexico and Mexicans want to live in America? I live in the UK and if I didn't live in England, I would want to live in Scotland, Ireland, or Wales. I love temperate climates, and beautiful green places with interesting history. Temperate climates energise me. I like places I feel most connected to and rooted in.
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  7266. Rubbish. This is made up nonsense by the newspapers. It you look at the set up in Parliament, there's so much furniture between her and Boris, he wouldn't be able to see, even if she had, which she didn't.
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  7267.  @traceymcgowan826  Ah that's what they always say about strong women. Don't fall for that.
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  7268. He would not necessarily advise you to.
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  7269.  @mrashford122  Why would you want to climb a tree? *beach
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  7270.  Anne Phair  Money raised by charity may be used for equipment e.g. PPE but it can't be used to pay for additional NHS staff and to expand NHS facilities to treat more people.
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  7271. *too much
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  7272.  @Stew282  I think you should look up some graphs. I did before I commented.
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  7273.  @Stew282  Do the same thing as you advised me and click on 'growth rate by country'. Also note this from the ONS. 'The British GDP grew 4.4% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2022, higher than an initial 2.9% rise. Still, it is the smallest growth rate in five quarters. The level of real GDP is now estimated to be 0.2% below where it was pre-coronavirus at Quarter 4 2019, downwardly revised from previous estimates of 0.6% above. source: Office for National Statistics'
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  7274. There's some new regulations expected and they still allow for 1 staircase buildings. They don't rule them out.
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  7275.  @mrcaboosevg6089  It's not about the age of the building. It's about the safety of it. The unsafe cladding is a new feature that was put on more recently. There's an Inquiry going on now and Private Eye magazine have covered a lot of what's emerging including a lot of fraud and fixing of 'tests' on the cladding by companies and those responsible for safety tests, to falsely make them 'pass' the tests or falsely claim that they did. It's a chain of failure my more than one person.
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  7276.  @MrPistolpete1234  Well I'd like to hear that debate.
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  7277.  @thelmaviaduct  It gets superseded as we learn more. Science is knowledge based and depends on our state of knowledge.
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  7278.  @TonyWayt1  That's a bit rich considering the indian government did very little to prepare for and combat Covid. It sounds like they are looking for a scapegoat to blame. Ivermectic couldn't be recommended for human use until scientists were sure of its effectiveness against Covid and safety for human use. After all it was originally designed to combat parasites in animals I believe.
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  7279. He said that Sharia law is clear about the rights of women but also that there will be a consultation to clarify what those rights are. That wasn't very clear. These guys look as though they stepped straight out of the 9th century. It's quite remarkable against a modern background. I wonder who makes their clothes and who does their laundry.
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  7280. I thought that too. He has since done a video on vaccine aspiration.
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  7281.  @renatodemavibas3367  I agree. It's just that he said in the video that he was scared, not scarred.
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  7282.  @ronbad12  Yes, I think the comments ran through that possibility.
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  7283. @Damien Montero *asterix *grammar *capital 'I'.
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  7284. @Damien Montero What full stop? I never mentioned one. 'I', when it is the personal pronoun, is always capitalised and doesn't have the dot at the top, if that's what you mean by full stop. I'm thinking that English is not your first language so I should not be overly critical.
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  7285.  @Ziggy024  I think it was necessary to clarify the meaning. If you only read that comment it would seem as though he'd been wounded but that's not what he said.
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  7286.  @my83roadster4me  The first comment was referring to what the soldier said and he said scared not scarred.
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  7287.  Grant Birżebbuġa Sfax  I know but I was just saying what the soldier said. Jeez it's simple. Why do people want to argue so much?
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  7288.  Grant Birżebbuġa Sfax  A lot of people in the comments.
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  7289. Sky news Australia, is very anti-Biden. In any difference of opinion it picks a side (the one that's rightest wing) and then constantly hammers the other side. Objective news it is not.
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  7290.  @rajjassal123  We don't have the time for that, but the vaccines are very much built on existing knowledge and scientific advances in the anti-viral world. ' In the long run we're all dead'. That's a famous quote but I can't remember who said it. (Looked it up, it was economist John Maynard Keynes) If you are worried, young, haven't had children yet, well you can probably get by without the vaccine because Covid is unlikely to kill you and if all the older and vulnerable people have opted for the vaccine, they will be protected.
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  7291. These are not excuses, they are precautions until we know.
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  7292. Shortages are all being blamed on the pingdemic but they were predicted before the pingdemic because of the problems of the shortage of lorry drivers (100,000 fewer) due to Brexit. The government and the Brexit supporting newspapers have decided not to mention Brexit as a cause.
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  7293. Debt means someone owns you and has leverage over you. If it's non democratic countries having leverage over democratic ones, that's a worry.
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  7294. One to avoid then.
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  7295.  @Anthony1uk  Are you saying NHS treatment is provided by chavs? After all it's free in the same way. Actually why would you think that chavs don't know about the internet?
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  7296.  @fantastic8213  Do you mean 'broadband'?
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  7297.  @stevedoughty1941  Why is it self harm policies? It's not even as radical as the 1945 Labour government was when the country was nearly bankrupt after WW2, and they created the national health service, nationalised utilities and the railways, mines and steel industries and built houses to replace all those lost by bomb damage as well as creating new homes for returning soldiers and moving families from homes with no indoor toilets or bathrooms to ones with those facilities. All of which they did successfully. Germany and Portugal sucessfully spent to invest their way out of recession. They understand the economics of that. (Invest when times are bad, save when times are good). They never had austerity programmes.
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  7298.  @Anthony1uk  That's a lie. He doesn't support terrorists. He believes in dialogue with both sides to achieve peace - just as the Tory government started in Northern Ireland under Margaret Thatcher, continued under John Major and finalised under Tony Blair.
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  7299.  @stevedoughty1941  And I've been around long enough to know that Labour do more good for people than the Tories.
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  7300.  @Anthony1uk  I agree that was wrong. I think they feared breaking the discrimination laws due misunderstanding them, but it has been changed now. Children have been abused in institutions under both Labour and Tory governments and councils in the past.
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  7301. What a weasel. He puts on this pathetic frail old man voice while he's telling his lies.
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  7302. Could the noises be terror of the rat?
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  7303.  @janetclaireSays  He was referring not she. Listen again .
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  7304. Wizard Fruit. What will stop you is your health breaking down eventually.
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  7305.  @JoeWhittakerNutritionist  I can't see it affecting people who work for themselves.
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  7306.  @JoeWhittakerNutritionist  Probably something great was achieved by a woman working a 4 day week though, and that something great does not necessarily have to be in the place of employment.
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  7307.  @JoeWhittakerNutritionist  Choosing to work 7 days a week? There speaks a single man without children.
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  7308. What discrimination? They don't ask questions because of bigotry but for health and safety reasons.
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  7309. @UCTZJoa6nNZ9Q-1kT45qPnFg If they let the banks go bankrupt, and other governments did the same, bye bye capitalist economies. Bye bye economies full stop. As for the NHS it's not a money pit. That's Tory propaganda. The UK spends proportionately less than many comparable countries on healthcare.
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  7310. @Argenta But no other country had a government stupid enough to exacerbate the problem by kranking up interest rates with a budget that spooked the markets.
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  7311. @Argenta What spooked the market was that she was just going to create a bigger black hole in the finances by that borrowing without ever saying how it would be paid for or having a credible plan for that. Then Kwasi Kwarteng said there would be more of the same to come, again without having a credible plan to pay for it. The fact that he cut the OBR out of the loop and criticised the IMF didn't help their credibility either.
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  7312.  @artificialCartoons  The sub-prime debt was a product of insufficient regulation of the banking industry which is basically legalised gambling. Capitalism without regulation is prone to causing economic crashes and the rich survive these periods by laying off the workers until they need them again. It's the workers who suffer from the instability of capitalism.
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  7313.  @artificialCartoons  P.S They are not creating money from debt but in order to plug a financial black hole.
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  7314.  @artificialCartoons  Corruption is everywhere, yes but capitalism works on a gambling principle. That's not corruption. That's just the way it works. It's legal.
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  7315. @Uri Ljlko If he was only looking after his own ambitions his membership would throw him out. He's elected to that position because they regard him as the best person to represent them. If a Union offered wages to its officers that made them 'suffer' that would not be a good advert for the Union and its principles. It would be seen as just another exploiter.
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  7316. @Uri Ljlko It's a wage rise for their members they are negotiating at their members' request. What is the justification for members wages to fall in real terms year on year when profits are rising. I understand the rail companies, or some of them, were willing to settle pay rises with the Unions but the government would not let them. If you believe real terms wage rises cause inflation and that's wrong, then do you believe that no one should get wage rises ever? The fact is that many people including this group of workers have had no pay rises in real terms and yet inflation is still going up. There are other factors causing inflation, some are external such as the price of oil, generally inflation is caused by supply and demand issues. Reports have shown that many people are now relying on credit to pay their way and getting into ever more debt. That is unsustainable long term.
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  7317. @Uri Ljlko What tosh! Firstly the RMT is a Union, not a big monolith. I think you must be referring to the Railway industry. That's just the stuff you tell yourself or someone tells you. If you lack capacity to think, someone else will do it for you, usually the Tory media. Lack of control? Do you think there is no management? What evidence do you have that the workers are lazy. What is a reasonable workload or working week in your mind? Are people allowed time with their families? The plan of the government is to cut functions which contribute to safety such as maintenance, the presence of ticket offices, guards on trains and moving people to ever longer hours and shifts. A tired train driver is not a safe one.
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  7318. @Uri Ljlko O dear - a Thatcherite miner. You must have been popular back in the day. Did you volunteer to give back your pay since you felt miners were being overpaid? Miners risked their lives and health in a dangerous industry and if profits are high they deserved their fair share. Why is it that the workers are always to blame for the country's ills and not those in control of the country and ripping it off? Who put the country in a dire situation? Was it Brexiteers? Was it those in government spending and wasting billions of pounds on their friends and supporters in ineffective non-competitive contracts which they still refuse to publish, contrary to legal requirements? We are being ruled by a criminal bunch at the moment and not only are they criminal but they are lazy and incompetent. They don't believe in government doing anything except creating a laissez faire economic system where everyone is at the mercy of the market (which has no mercy).
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  7319. @Uri Ljlko I don't think you caused the death of your industry. I think it was cheap coal from places like Poland and China that undercut the price of British coal, and China in particular was accused of dumping coal (selling it at less than cost price). Thatcher wasn't prepared to protect the British coal industry it seems, but it's all Academic now because green measures would likely have meant that we turned away from coal in the long run. The thing about Thatcher was she didn't try to justify closure like that. She didn't do it gradually or try to encourage replacement industries. She called miners 'the enemy within' and used strong arm tactics just to show how powerful she was. Not a nice person. She destroyed communities that relied on the industry, without a thought for the consequences.
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  7320. @Uri Ljlko I think you are making assumptions. The NHS is composed of individual NHS Trusts and purchasers who can make their own decisions. It's not a big monolith as you suggest, and some of the providers are private companies. It's all run through contracts which are revised on an annual basis in line with changing needs. I've had 7 operations and a birth in the NHS. I didn't see any laziness there. 70% of NHS costs are on staff and staff are the ones that give care. Cutting staff equals cutting care and capacity for care. The Tories have done a lot of restructuring of the NHS including basing the restructurings on outside advice and bringing in managers from outside industries (who know nothing about the NHS). So your ideas are out of date and not well researched - just the product of ignorant and lazy thinking, probably influenced by the Tory media, I guess.
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  7321. I'm left handed with right handed parents, though I had a left handed Aunt who was beaten at school for writing with her left hand. I had to play hockey at school and I always played right handed, but I'm left handed at tennis. I never managed to get top marks for my handwriting, at school. Pushing the pen across the page is harder than pulling it. That's my excuse anyway. When I write fast with a pen my writing becomes even less legible.
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  7322. 'which I did not attend with'. The second 'with' is not needed. Americans can't seem to speak or write English any more.
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  7323. I think it may be because Ireland had to fight to be an independent nation which seems like something to be celebrated whereas England as a nation is associated with creating an Empire which exploited people of other nations, so it's a bit more embarrassing to celebrate its national day. Also the Celts love any excuse for a celebration.
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  7324.  @danielcox5096  That's because England occupied and settled it starting from the 12th century and eventually let go of part of it but not the other. From then on oppressive laws were enacted and the native population was denied the right to own land, to have an education, to practise their religion, to speak their language to wear native dress, to hold any position of authority, or to vote. This kept them poor. Any improvements made to the land and cabins they rented meant rent rises. Any failure to pay rent meant eviction, even during the famine.
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  7325.  @danielcox5096  No. I've not 'just googled that' . I've read books on Irish history. I can recommend some if you wish, or you can google the facts I've mentioned to check.
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  7326. @Leroy Jenkins What did Frost achieve? How have the EU capitulated? Which planet are you living on? Which propaganda sheet do you read?
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  7327. Guy Fawkes managed to kill himself before suffering the worst of it. It was the other guy whose name no one knows or remembers who suffered the whole horrific thing.
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  7328.  @jamonit7169  I think the BBC did report on that. I remember reading about it online, but the investigation by Denmark, Sweden and others is still ongoing. Is there any evidence that Biden is the culprit other than Russia blaming the West which it always does and without evidence? Russia continually lies and is a prime suspect for this sabotage. Who gains most?
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  7329. The daughter looks a bit odd and older than she should, because of botox it seems. The mother has aged well and looks better.
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  7330. You mean white? Khan is English as he was born here. She is a Trump supporter.
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  7331.  @jackflash743  * There are (English please).
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  7332. It's not a propaganda machine as its charter obliges it to balance up the opinions they show, so even something that scientists overwhelmingly agree about has to be balanced by the views of some eccentric nutter with no facts to support their views.
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  7333.  @yojimbo843  Bad because they don't agree with your own opinions? As I said they are bound by their charter to balance up opinions so they always have to put the other side to any argument and that's not bias to my mind.
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  7334.  @tommybcfckrosotv  No I've always been left wing since I was 14 and I was capable of thinking about politics. My family was not left wing. I know no one who works for the BBC. You don't seem to think that people can think for themselves if they take an interest and seek to be informed. I don't think the BBC is left wing. They are fairly central.
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  7335.  @Dazwa  I do watch the BBC. What and where is the proof? If sent to the BBC governors they would be obliged to correct it in line with the requirements of their charter - if it's statistically proved and not just subjective opinion.
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  7336. Sexist crap.
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  7337. 'Nobbled with naughtiness' What a wonderful phrase.
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  7338.  @bernardrandles8013  This is not about policing the world. It's about helping people in dire need. If we want to withdraw aid from Yemen, for instance, we should also stop selling the arms that are causing all their problems in the first place. It is war supplied by British arms on one side, that has caused the devastation and chaos and led to starvation. It is Saudi Arabian intervention with British bought arms that prolongs the war.
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  7339. The Israelis only listen to comments in a selective way.
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  7340. 2 days ago no deaths and 3k new cases. Yesterday 12 deaths and 4k new cases. Today 18 deaths and 5k new cases. Seems like Covid spread is taking off again. Unfortunately keeping quiet and not being accountable seems to work for them with the voters who don't notice.
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  7341. People are still abiding by mask wearing on public transport. I'll be wary of using it if there are no masks, even though I've had the vaccinations. The poor drivers will be at risk again. The government's view seems to be, if people haven't been vaccinated - tough.
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  7342.  @paulhoye9680  O so it's necessary to watch only one specific news channel with a particular take on things to 'educate yourself'. Being educated, I prefer to follow the science.
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  7343.  @tentaklaus9382  I don't expect people to isolate themselves unless they have Covid and maybe they'd only need to distance themselves rather than isolate themselves if they live with people who have been vaccinated. It won't damage people's health to wear masks to prevent them from giving Covid to others in confined areas like on public transport. Your dismissal of Covid as 'flu' is unscientific, but even flu can kill. We should all be more respectful of others and try not to infect them, or would you be o.k with someone feeling free to cough all over you in a confined environment?
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  7344.  @paulhoye9680  I haven't deleted any comments at all. People can't delete other people's comments anyway. They can only report them and I've not done that. The only way comments can be deleted is if someone deletes their own comment and it is the first one in a chain of comments, then all the responses to that comment will disappear along with the original comment, but I've deleted none of my comments on this page. I've no idea what 77 brigade is. What have you been smoking?
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  7345.  @paulhoye9680  Multiple channels can't keep spouting lies. They would lose their reputations and their advertisers. In the UK they would lose their licence to broadcast. Ofcom, the regulator would end their licences and shut them down. You can always visit independent fact check sites if you believe something to be untrue, but selecting one single conspiracy site is not finding the truth, it's finding something that agrees with what you want to believe.
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  7346.  @tentaklaus9382  Masks aren't designed to 'isolate you from others'. They are designed to prevent or reduce the spread of the virus when you are with others. Whether isolation is worse for your health than Covid depends on your circumstances and how likely Covid is to kill you. Those with underlying health conditions, obesity or the elderly will be more vulnerable to dying from the virus, but not exclusively so. We're not talking about everyone isolating, only those who have Covid. After all, even with other illnesses, it's not advisable for people to go to work if they are going to infect others. I remember someone at work who had the norovirus (remember that?) He was vomiting for weeks - most unpleasant, but he did stay off work and did not give it to those around him. The problem with Covid is that not everyone has symptoms so they don't always know they have it and could spread it to others. Testing is important to identify those cases.
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  7347.  @tentaklaus9382  P.S If someone mugged you in the street, presumably you'd be angry with them, but if they gave you Covid, causing you to be ill for weeks, or even longer (long Covid) because of their unwillingness to take simple measures to prevent spread, you'd be o.k with that would you?
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  7348.  @paulhoye9680  You can insult me all you like, because you have no evidence for your paranoid assertions, and nothing else to say.
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  7349.  @tentaklaus9382  There's no easy answer in such times, none without detriment. I had cancer and had my operation delayed during the lockdown period, but lockdown also protected me from Covid which would certainly have killed me had I caught it.
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  7350.  @tentaklaus9382  No but I have chronic asthma and I also have diabetes. I've also recently had cancer and am having treatment which might affect my immune system. I have some young adults in my house and they have been fine with the protective measures.
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  7351.  @wolfiestreet6899  Well, I'm following the officially submitted stats on cases, which have bene increasing day upon day recently https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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  7352.  @tentaklaus9382  You make decisions for you. As for your advice to me, that's claptrap.
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  7353.  @dantuber4738  I'm not naive, but I'd have to look through over 400 comments to find the one from me that you were commenting on, so forgive me if I don't bother.
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  7354.  joe loney  The Indian variant which is in their area now, has been killing younger people in India.
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  7355.  @Nelson_Churchill  Leave the playground now and find your Mummy.
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  7356. Black cats are the best, most responsive, most affectionate. They are lucky in the UK.
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  7357. Who is Mary? The Queen is called Margaret. Margaret is a manipulative Queen who wants to bring down the Gloucesters who have power over the King because the Duke of Gloucester is the Lord Protector (like a Regent). She sets up this scene then pretends to be upset at the consequences (the Duchess of Gloucester's threat of revenge) in order to justify the bringing down of the Gloucesters (which happens later on). Here is the first part of the bringing down of the Gloucesters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjr5wjIiJ7E
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  7358. That's o.k. I hope you understand what's really going on in the scene a bit better now.
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  7359. A default position is not necessarily a good one.
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  7360. But Ministers are in charge, not the bureaucracy.
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  7361. 3:11 you wouldn't remember the emperor who conquered Britain, you're a bit young.4:49. I don't think the Romans gave us 'running water'. We already had lots of rivers.
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  7362.  @christopher3386  Why? They are in a line of descent from George I of Hanover, though on the female side there's some different ancestry.
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  7363. Everyone bailed out the banks, not just Obama. Gordon Brown bailed out the banks and encouraged other countries to do the same. It was about protecting people's savings and shoring up confidence in the financial system to avoid chaos. I think Obama as first black President in the USA behaved too cautiously for fear of being the last ever black President. He did introduce The Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) though, and he did have to work against a congress and senate that was trying to block him on that.
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  7364. Just take it from Trump's own mouth and the mouths of those he's making moves to appoint. They tell you they will do these things. Don't you believe them?
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  7365. I think they fear the police will put pressure on them on the ground and cause their death even if that's not the intention. There have been so many well publicised cases of that type of death.
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  7366. Means: My knowledge of Latin is not great (or literally - "strong").
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  7367.  @mateusuchoa4099  How much?
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  7368.  @franco7928  They have not taken effective measures in every state but they did more than Brazil to begin with. They have a lot more big cities though that make the spread easier. Are you really defending Bolsanaro by saying he' not as bad as the worst? Not as bad as Trump was?
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  7369. The population of Ireland is less than it was before the famine and mass exodus of the population.
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  7370. A friend of mine was talking about some anti-depressants that have no side effects. Her husband was taking them. Unfortunately I've forgotten what they were called but if they are known about then doctors must know about them too.
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  7371. Russia will fire long range rockets back I guess. Escalation will be no solution.
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  7372.  @yuyu-mo4je  A shower at night is not going to protect you if you've been infected during the day.
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  7373.  @emmalou3121  My point was that there will be fewer people to care for the people with Coronavirus and more will die as a result. The virus is overwhelming the care and health system.The families of patients will care about that. Of course I value their lives but I'm not affected as much as their families are and I can't pretend to be.
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  7374.  @snowflake1302  I'm very sorry to hear of your loss and the loss of all of the doctors and people in Iran. I hope you are keeping well. It's truly an awful disease.
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  7375.  @emmalou3121  I wasn't particularly addressing my first comment to them. If you look lower down in the comments you'll seen that I've sent a message of sympathy to an individual who told me that her husband, a doctor, has died from the virus and that 80 doctors have died in her country. This is the comment from 'snowflake'. You may want to send her a message of sympathy too. 'Helen Trope , in Iran almost 80 doctors died since Mid February 2020 , including my husband who was an orthopaedic surgeon. He was only 54 and unfortunately he couldn’t make it in 25 of February 2020 , I can’t believe it , every things gone just because of that tiny evil'
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  7376.  @yuyu-mo4je  That's not true. Once you're infected, you're infected, but the symptoms usually take 5 days to show up. Once the virus is in your body, nothing can stop the infection taking hold. Taking a shower won't stop it and bed sheets are irrelevant at that stage. The preventative measures that people need to take are to stop it getting into their bodies in the first place.
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  7377.  @yuyu-mo4je  Hygiene is good practice, yes, but you have to stay away from other people (2 metres away) , not touch them or shake their hands, and wash your hands when you get back to your house. A shower when you get back to your house would be good as part of that. In a lockdown situation, only leave your house for food or in an emergency.
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  7378. He's not yet fit. He can speak though. The worst part of the illness is when you can't breathe. Once you are able to breathe again and are on the mend, it's just a question of getting over the tiredness.
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  7379. Because he was elected. Anyone's better than Trump. In any case Biden just made a passionate speech in defence of democracy and the constitution, and he has a young deputy, so' no worries', as Australians say. He's also been getting on with things on the quiet - no noisy boasting like Trump. Sky Australia is very biased against Biden and takes every opportunity to have a bash at him, editing things to make him look worse or not explaining the context of some things. Sky Australia is owned by Rupert Murdoch who used to support Trump but now supports DeSantis, both of whom are about removing rights and voting opportunities, starting with women's rights.
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  7380.  @margolockwood5390  No.
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  7381.  @greg767  When my brains are mush, then I'll be a Trump sopporter.
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  7382.  @OG_MikeHawk  As Winston Churchill once said 'Democracy is the worst system, except for all the alternatives'.
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  7383.  @dw1878  Don't be obtuse. You know very well what I'm referring to.
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  7384.  @dw1878  You are coming from a stupid angle since you must know, unless you are obtuse that in relation to women's rights I was referring to abortion. If there are additional costs associated with getting required voter id, that is a barrier to those who are struggling financially. Interestingly you refer to voter id issues in connection with black people. I never mentioned black people but you clearly have an idea of who restriction of voter rights is mainly aimed at.
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  7385.  @margolockwood5390  This is the internet and an open comment page. No qualifications are required for commenting.
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  7386.  @margolockwood5390  I don't know what a 'sopporter' is. That's your word. I wrote supporter
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  7387. In Britain we would say hot flushes rather than hot flashes, but I think we are more and more picking up the US term. I was pushed into the menopause by chemotherapy treatment. It was necessary as part of the treatment as my cancer was hormone fuelled. So I couldn't tell menopause symptoms from chemotherapy side effects. So in a sense I never noticed going through the menopause.
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  7388. They had tasers. Not sure whether the injured ones had tasers.
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  7389. Well spotted. That's Jennifer Saunders.
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  7390. @Connor Dolan Boris did look ill and his breathing was a bit laboured. Trump didn't seem to have those symptoms in his video but then the disease has different phases.
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  7391.  @nocash3055  He could be aiming for the sympathy vote.
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  7392. @Ståle Skjegget Glad to amuse.
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  7393. Traitor to whom or what?
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  7394. The subtitles were wrong unfortunately. It was 'This is my territory, stay clear!'. ' We'll its going to be mine in a minute'. 'Oh yeah?', 'Yeah'. 'Shove off, fuzzy face'. 'I'll smash yours in', 'Don't threaten me, you wimp, ' etc etc etc
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  7395. It's just about finding some story to talk about on a chat show. Graham Norton loves it when they tell stories like this. I hope they wouldn't be name dropping in real life.
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  7396. This site is full of bias and lies.
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  7397. Colt45 You must be old.
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  7398.  @ziskador  * interrupting
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  7399.  @tfgrocks4872  *whole
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  7400.  @Righteous_Cal101  *almighty
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  7401.  Raja Naaga Lingam  Eh? I was just correcting people's spelling mistakes.
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  7402. Trump before he was blond and orange.
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  7403. These 3 right wing media news shows are going to sink to the lowest common denominator in competing with each other for right wing viewers, and that's going to be bad news for the 'news' content of these channels and the people who watch them.
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  7404. This is disgraceful. Isn't it illegal?
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  7405. Wrong party. The unicorns are promised by the Tories in a hard Brexit. Labour has done some of these things in the past. They are not unachievable. It's just that the Tories try to undo them as soon as they get back into power.
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  7406.  @sazzieb1  The power is all on the side of the employers. Once when the Unions 'exerted' themselves, they were suddenly 'holding us to ransom'. Not a very balanced picture.
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  7407. No but the average temperature across the world across all seasons has been rising and continues to rise. A seemingly small rise in the average, even just 1 degree can cause severe weather problems such as melting ice caps, sea levels rising, forest fires, more hurricanes, drought and starvation in some parts of the world.
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  7408. English is a foreign language. If we were speaking the native tongue it would have been a form of Gaelic. Welsh perhaps.
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  7409. It's not confusing as she's over 60. What's shocking is how far behind the UK they are in having their vaccines. If she was in the UK she'd have had it by now.
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  7410.  @fineweather4569  We are better because case numbers and deaths have gone down a lot since the vaccine roll out and we are in the process of coming out of lockdown unlike some other places in Europe. It's not about compliance but the Brits know about pulling together for the common good. They did it in WW2. Their NHS is based on that principle.
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  7411.  @fineweather4569 ' Everyone else has been mingling and everyone you know'? Not where I am. Perhaps that's why it took so long for the case numbers to come down. You and people like you have banjaxed the economy and goodness knows how many people's deaths you are responsible for. Pulling together for the common good is not a government term. Our government would not recognise it as such. They are individualists in the following of Margaret Thatcher. No, that idea goes back much further. Yes it makes sense to impose restrictions since there are over 100,000 deaths in the UK(126,000) because it would have been much worse without them. As it is, there are over a million people who didn't die but are disabled with 'long Covid'. That figure would have been higher too. If the case figures are going down 'because the flu season is over' as you say, why are they going up in the rest of Europe? When is the 'flu season' in Brazil, India and Mexico whose figures are ongoing at a high level?
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  7412. You have to be pretty close (within samurai sword distance) to use a baton or a spray. Tasers are the tools that let you stay more at a distance
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  7413. I'm sure they won't be removing forests.
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  7414.  @adilrana9515  Your laws discriminate against women and human rights are not recognised.
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  7415. Why do we always have such a poor selection of songs for the Eurovision song contest. We lose because we select from a pool or poor and ersatz music when we are capbable of much better. it's no good blaming the voting sytem. Even if it is stacked against us, If we are going to lose anyway why don't we risk putting some decent music forward so that we have something to look forward to listening to instead of churning out the same old stale crap?
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  7416. They are doing their best not to put lives at risk but they know lives are at risk anyway as the Tory government lets the NHS collapse. So how do they get a pay rise and address these problems when the government just ignores their plight?
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  7417. 'TTS mainly affecting women younger than 50'. Is that likely to be connected to the effect of the vaccine in relation to oestrogen levels or contraceptive pills? 'Heart inflammation mainly in younger men'. Could that be connected to the effect of the vaccine in relation to testosterone levels?
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  7418.  @johnnymonoxide9220  They are separate because they are not the same people though some of them do have that relationship you described. Personally I read 'Private Eye' to find out what's really going on.
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  7419. You want an entertainment act that's useless in practice? It's 'boring' by the way.
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  7420. Because he hasn't got enough signatures to oust Theresa may. He needs 48 to set off a leadership process. I can't believe how ignorant people are in thinking everything is simple and knowing nothing.
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  7421. Orange was a mobile phone company. I think it still operates under that name in France.
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  7422. Trouble is I think footballers like Lineker are so used to being paid stratospheric salaries that they probably wouldn't work for a normal one. What's interesting is that a lot of that would go in tax, unless he's on some tax avoiding scheme.
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  7423. The word literally is redundant in that case. I think some people use literally because they think people won't believe them or think they are talking figuratively, unless they make it clear by saying literally so it does have a valid purpose.
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  7424.  @lakshmithasridhar3175  Some people assert that Edward IV was not the son of the Duke of York but was illegitimate. It's certainly complicated. No wonder there was a war between claimants.
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  7425. Even though he's not in government? Sounds like a deflection of responsibility.
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  7426.  @johnou.k.3780  Why call them Liebour. They are not in the same league as CONservatives when it comes to lying.
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  7427.  @jsteadman9262  Or Coatian/Serbian based on the spelling of the surname but I thought that Ioan was a Welsh name
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  7428.  @WildFish56x  Ioan is a Welsh name isn't it?
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  7429. WTO will be what you get if there's no deal, but no country in the world trades just on WTO terms as it's the 4th division of trading. They all look for deals with big blocks like the EU or other big countries/blocks but these can often take 10 years or more to get. We'll be starting at the bottom and any trade negotiating partners will have us over a barrel because we'll need a deal more than they do. Have you looked at what will happen to the UK under WTO terms - whether we set tariffs or zero tariffs? Not only that, but we have zero experienced trade deal negotiators because we relied on the EU for that for the last 40 years. The EU and other countries have experienced trade negotiators who will wipe the floor with us after Brexit.
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  7430. @J Robs We are at the moment but that doesn't mean we can't go into a big recession and we are not as big as some of the trading partners we'll try to deal with. Look at the standards (or lack of) that the USA maintains for its own people. They'll hardly want to change them in order to trade with us. This is just one example. I could add others https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/17/health/baby-foods-arsenic-lead-toxic-metals-wellness/index.html
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  7431.    At the expense of the health and safety of its people and with the benefits of growth going mostly to the already wealthy. It's a capitalist wild west.
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  7432.  @celticcc3658  You've completely misinterpreted what I'm on about. It's not the swearing as such, though being so disrespectful to his colleague and suggesting there's something wrong with her for asking questions is not good. It's the fact that he doesn't seem to think it's right for him to be questioned in this way, but it's part of the job for him to be accountable as a public representative who is taking taxpayers money. People have a right to ask him questions and if he can't handle it he's either in the wrong job or got something to hide.
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  7433. Charlotte Church
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  7434.  andrew chambers  Trump and Boris are very alike in their populism and uselessness.
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  7435. The sentient testicle. Lol. I like that. The talking ballsac. Lol Lol. Probably farts dust. Lol. Didn't he suffer a huge loss having to settle out of court with companies providing the voting system machines, that Fox News had slandered?
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  7436. I doubt if inflation eases, that rents will come down, having got so high. Landlords rarely reduce rents.
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  7437. Plenty of pee. There's an inexhaustible supply of that. Check your English.
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  7438. This is typical distraction technique. What you've cited is just advance warnings of risk. It's hardly in the same category as a near economic collapse in the UK only saved by the action of the Bank of England. The EU is always about to collapse according to right wingers. Is the pound back to where it was before the mini budget? Stop being such a pompous arse.
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  7439. Ageism.
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  7440. I think it was on the BBC online news at least. I remember seeing it.
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  7441. No one knows. There's no cure. If a vaccine works that might help but flu vaccines don't get rid of flu. When those work they they just stop it being so serious for vulnerable people. The same might apply to Covid 19.
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  7442. The views of non voters cannot be known or taken into account. That's one reason why voting is important.
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  7443.  @chairmakerPete  That's how democracy in the UK works. You can't force people to vote. It's their choice. By not voting they are giving up having a say, so a mandate can be claimed on the basis of those who voted.
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  7444.  @chairmakerPete  What alternative system do you recommend? It used to be a multiple choice system but the Tory government changed it to first past the post' this time as they thought it would help their candidate. Khan had 43.8% by the way but I won't nitpick.. You can't assume that 85% did not support him. A good proportion may have thought he was certain to win and were content so didn't bother to vote (too lazy). That's the thing. Those who don't vote are voiceless by choice.
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  7445.  @chairmakerPete  Economies of scale would be lost if each council had to plan, fund and cross co-ordinate cross London services from their own patch. Otherwise you give it back to central government to a party that does not believe in governing but in leaving everything to the free market. We've known since Victorian times that that does not work.
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  7446.  @chairmakerPete  People can vote to do away with a Mayor's job. I believe they did it in Bristol but I don't know the process. For a city the size of London to have no overall representation would be ludicrous.
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  7447.  @chairmakerPete  That's normal for a turnout for local elections.
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  7448.  @chairmakerPete  What's the alternative. It used to be preference vote but the Tories changed it to first past the post. Bristol got rid of their Mayor after a referendum on it.
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  7449. If he loses Trump is going to claim the election was fraudulent and get the Supreme Court, with his new place person to agree.
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  7450. It's good to be more self sufficient anyway, hard Brexit or no Brexit. It's our reliance on imports that is one of the causes of the trade deficit. Maybe Brexit will spur the growth of more production and more home grown businesses in Britain in the longer term but there's bound to be short term problems if we crashed out with no deal without adequate time for preparation.
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  7451. On what evidence?
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  7452.  @immyu6566  I'm not going to check out loony conspiracy theories. Those are for people that fear and have lost their sense of perspective.
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  7453.  @immyu6566  So according to you, what accounts for all the excess deaths during the Covid period? Every death is registered (I don't just mean Covid deaths) and from the death register can be seen the number of deaths happening currently and these can be compared to the average number of deaths that occurred in the same periods in previous years. That shows the current 'excess deaths' figure. The Excess deaths figure was approx 60,000 when the deaths attributed to Covid on death certificates was approx 40,000, which sounds like Covid deaths are more likely to have been undercounted as a lot of people died without being tested.
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  7454. Is this footage from before the pandemic? If not, what happened to social distancing to prevent the virus from spreading?
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  7455. We do need more builders.
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  7456.  @simonharrison1874  Ha ha. I think it's you who should visit to improve your knowledge of it.
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  7457.  @joebidenisapedophile  In what way?
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  7458.  @joebidenisapedophile  Obama didn't do enough, I agree, though he did introduce Obamacare which helped a lot of people. Trump has killed people in Syria.Who put children in cages? that came in after Trump was elected surely. Isis existed before the Iran deal and was pretty well beaten by then. The Iran deal was a nuclear weapons agreement (to stop Iran creating nuclear weapons) and it had verification procedures involved. Verifiers said Iran was sticking to the deal. Trump has just caused more instability in the middle east by unilaterally dropping the deal. I recommend you look at a wide spectrum of media and some independent sites, not just the Trumpist ones you are looking at. Here are the biggest 30 promises broken by Trump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZD_xyAjC-E&t=48s
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  7459.  @constancaazeredo5845  I feel a bit bad about doing that. I didn't think it would get this much attention.
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  7460.  @dtzopa  It's completely uncalled for. It just struck me at the time.It was a flippant remark.
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  7461.  @stephenlyons2846  Yes. Fine.
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  7462.  @stephenlyons2846  P.S. Are you the 4 star general?
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  7463. November the 3rd, expel the turd.
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  7464. For all the complainers. Here's a snippet of recent findings on the news. Early British man (Cheddar man) had dark skin and blue eyes it seems. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-42970067/cheddar-man-dna-shows-early-brit-had-dark-skin
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  7465. h1 etc Why don't you stitch your mouth up and give us all a rest?
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  7466. h1 etc Typical.
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  7467. I'm sure his name's not pronounced Buttidadge.
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  7468. Cradle is pronounced like craydle (long a sound) not like craddle (short a sound),
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  7469. Trump does know truth from lies. He just doesn't care whether what he says is true. When he was younger he said that chaos always served him well. He tries to create chaos whenever he's in trouble.
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  7470. Tories taking us back to Victorian times.
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  7471.  @dominictemperton  Where are people not free in Europe?
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  7472. Saudi mocks? People in glass houses should not throw stones.
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  7473. Labour prioritises people over money. Conservatives prioritise money over people (except when a general election is looming). If Labour were in power perhaps they would claw back some of the fraudulently acquired funds that the Conservatives let go, and tighten up on some tax loopholes.
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  7474.  @gacj2010  *lying
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  7475.  @gacj2010  I was just correcting your spelling.(That's what the asterisk means) I'm not an American.
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  7476. I've definitely made lots of decisions based on my gut instinct and they've turned out to be the right ones in the long run. However just to be sure, I've sometimes made a list of pros and cons of taking a certain decision, before actually taking it, for instance on whether to change jobs etc.
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  7477. Such as?
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  7478.  @Bereadyalways123  It's thinking like that that got us into this mess. Do you really think wokeism is the biggest issue for people right now? The 'left wingers' are not in power and haven't been for decades in case you hadn't noticed. Even Blair was not a left winger and most Labour governments weren't radical. You have to go back to 1945 for the most radical one. They created the NHS, nationalised utility companies and the railways, and rebuilt the housing stock after the war. The Tories are managing to ruin the country all by themselves. They can claim all the credit.
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  7479.  @Bereadyalways123  The part of wokeism I like is when people are trying to be nice and considerate to each other, but I do believe in vigorous debate and expressing views. I don't like cancellation and censorship except where people are endangering lives by their hate speech. Wokeism can be irritating but I don't think it's the worst problem there is when so many people struggle to put food on the table or to get treatment for illnesses or jobs that pay enough to live on.
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  7480.  @Bereadyalways123  P.S You say the media control people's thoughts and you say the media are left wing. That doesn't seem logical since it doesn't explain why the majority of the country seems right wing and votes for right wing Tories. Only the cities and the educated young don't follow this tendency.
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  7481.  @Bereadyalways123  Oh dear. You've become an example of someone who gets abusive when they feel they are losing an argument or can't get someone else to agree with them. I'm in London where there are many educated young people.
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  7482. Lol. Farage hasn't even opened an office in his constituency and his party is a private company. Reform leadership is a bunch of rich men, in it for themselves.
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  7483. It's a list of those that could potentially be sanctioned but that is up tp Boris Johnsonov.
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  7484. He's jealous of him, is he not? He doesn't like being unfavourably compared to him. Sounds like he's been brooding over this.
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  7485. The quality of coffee that Starbucks serves isn't good. My daughter drinks her coffee black, so the taste of coffees is instantly comparable. In countries used to good quality coffee drinks, Starbucks would have to up their quality to get into the market.
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  7486. Nobody seems ever to mention the young kids in a Gazan playground that Israel recently hit and killed with drones while they were playing table football. What was that all about?
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  7487. To paraphrase a quotation from 12 Angry Men, 'He can't handle the truth'. He can't accept he's lost because he can't see himself as a loser.
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  7488. Aren't EE and BT linked? O2 once used to be part of BT before it broke away as O2. I'm with O2 but haven't experienced such a problem so far. I could have switched to BT I don't find BT very trustworthy. The worst providers I ever had were Orange and Talk Talk. Talk Talk would not believe it was me, so to speak, when I contacted them, and so my issue was never resolved. I left them. Orange (way back) was so rude and indifferent. They always rang to push the hard sell and when I took the opportunity to say what I didn't like about their service, they ended the call. I left them. My nephew and partner are with EE and had some problem with them but I think it was a reception problem rather than a problem with customer services.
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  7489.  @paulgibbons2320  It's easy to get a simplistic message with simple slogans across to simple folk and harder to get a more complex argument across. People like simplicity because it's easy. They don't need to make an effort to find out facts etc.
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  7490.  @paulgibbons2320  I never said I was the only one in the world that uses facts. Far from it. You are misrepresenting my argument. How like the bad news channels. My ego doesn't come into this, just my fear of what people will do and the decisions they will make based on bad information. Decisions that will affect us all. My parents died in the 1970s so I have been managing and making decisions for myself since young and I've been successful at that so far, but the great divisions in society over Brexit and the poor information we get about it are scary for their potential consequences. I also think a lot of hate is fuelled by poor journalism as people look for someone else to blame.
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  7491.  @starbar1958  The Metro is pro Tory . It's owned by The Daily Mail. The New Statesman is a magazine. Magazines don't have the same circulation. The 'i' which used to stand for The Independent, is also owned now by The Daily Mail.
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  7492. I have an idea for a comedy sketch based on photoshopping. If anyone has seen the scene in 'Marathon Man' where Laurence Olivier is drilling into Dustin Hoffman's teeth without anaesthetic while constantly asking him 'Is it safe', just substitute a refugee for Lawrence Olivier and a Home Office Minister (or maybe Rishi Sunak) for Dustin Hoffman.
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  7493. If someone says something like that at the dentists, get out of that chair and get a second opinion.
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  7494. It's just that he's dead serious about his politics, and he's not a person to be flattered, but saying nice things when he's leaving hardly makes up for all the nasty things they've said about him for 4 years, even though he never attacked people on a personal basis, only their policies. It's Boris that wasn't socialised properly. He can trip insincere statements off his tongue with no qualms whatsoever, or is that what 'proper socialisation' is?
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  7495. Then you are to blame Trump's shenanigans.
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  7496.  @swampfox8461  You don't know anything about me but you jump to judgement. I don't know anything about critical race theory. I don't belong to the woke generation. I just have a strong sense of justice and was around at the time when all abortion was illegal. The idea of abortion is something I don't like but at the same time, sometimes the alternative can be worse.
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  7497.  @swampfox8461  No I'm not part of George Soros's open society and I don't know what that is without looking it up. I'm a person that tries to find out as much as possible on things that interest me, from a wide range of sources, and then makes her own mind up.
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  7498.  @swampfox8461  Nope. I don't know about Gates and Sangers philosophies except that I've heard that what you say about them as an accusation. I'm not sure that the evidence is there for that. If you are referring to freely available contraception, I'm in favour of that.
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  7499.  @swampfox8461  Let me turn this around to see how you feel. Are you one of The Proud Boys by chance or a Christian fundamentalist?
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  7500.  @swampfox8461  The most difficult thing is to prove a negative, especially to someone who is not open minded. Can you prove you are not one of the Proud Boys or a Christian fundamentalist?
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  7501.  @swampfox8461  P.S Can you prove you are not a member of ISIS or a Russian bot?
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  7502.  @swampfox8461  Have you seen this video. I'd recommend it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25JyC5Whhvc&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=17&t=67s
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  7503.  @swampfox8461  I've nothing against Christians. I was raised as one. It's the hard nosed fundamentalism I don't like. That sort of mindset is the same as one that led to wars and oppression in medieval times of anyone who questioned it. To me the essential Christian message is about love and treating your neighbour as yourself. I do think Marx was good on analysing how capitalism works. Not so good on predictions or solutions. If you watch that video I linked, you'll see the guy who started and pushed the pro life movement, says the religious right and Republicans were pro choice at the time and not interested in an anti-abortion movement. They had to be persuaded and what persuaded them was the potential for fund raising and the potential for getting the Christian right voters, that were politically apathetic at the time, galvanised into becoming politically involved on behalf of the Republicans.
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  7504. philip kemp bell This is about good drama. It's not the 'Top Trumps' of who's the nastiest, most violent, most successful bunch of criminals ever.
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  7505. So what was the protest about?
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  7506.  @jn4126  We do (The Labour Party) but the voters seem to prefer the Tories when it comes to election time.
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  7507.  @jn4126  I think Keir Starmer is being overly cautious because he fears that a radical labour manifesto might frighten the middle ground of voters he needs to win to get elected. Others will be put off by his overly cautious approach, but if the Tories get in again they will continue their disastrous trajectory and that alone is enough to vote in a party that will not do that.
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  7508. Woke? Well you wouldn't want them to be asleep on the job would you?
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  7509. I'm sure he doesn't consciously use a formula. It's just part of his natural response based on his personality. He has said he tries to make people feel comfortable and his object is to be entertaining and get his guests to be entertaining, not to rip them apart. People like him but I don't think that's an objective of his. His objective is to produce an entertaining and fun show. A lot of Irish presenters in the UK have been successful. Irish charm? They seem much more comfortable in interviewing roles and able to put people at their ease. By the way, Robert De Niro has been on the show several times and doesn't say much but seems happy to be there. Graham has said he doesn't mind that Robert De Niro doesn't say much. He's happy to have him there along with other guests who will say a lot. The other thing is that Graham also seems nice and sincere. He doesn't seem to be manipulating people for his own ends to make himself look good. Occasionally people do react to Graham by getting upset or seeming to, and having a go back at him. He does not react defensively but takes the attack in his stride, and then skillfully moves on to defuse the person's upset feelings. People do seem to realise that if they were to get seriously angry with Graham, it would be like getting angry with a puppy. They are the ones who would come off looking bad in the eyes of the audience so no one really goes there. Another thing he does is allow people to drink alcohol if they want to. That usually relaxes them, and allows them to open up a bit more. It creates a party atmosphere and expectations of a fun time. However, it has backfired occasionally with the occasional guest getting too drunk and talking too much, not making much sense, or falling asleep. The trick is that he always has about 3 or 4 people on the couch by the end of the show, and gambles that not all 4 conversations will fail. He also has a rare combination of having a thick skin (personally) while being quite sensitive to other people and the signals they are giving off and being quick witted himself and able to give funny and apt responses to the unexpected revelations from his guests. Oh, and another thing, if guests are talking to each other and being entertaining he does not interrupt and doesn't necessarily stick rigidly to his script, recognising that something special is happening that should be allowed to continue. He facilitates conversations and is able to guide them skillfully if necessary. Conversations are not censored it seems, and Graham seems genuinely unshockable though he can act shocked in a comical and exaggerated way sometimes, but never seems truly uncomfortable, always seeming very accepting of his guests.
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  7510. When they bothered to understand the details because they cared, were interested and not lazy.
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  7511.  @georgewright9914  You left yours at home.
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  7512.  @provideo2894  * have been running the ship
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  7513. That was a bunch of fascists. Not all Jews think Corbyn is an anti semite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n5YiCRIujo&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=5&t=33s
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  7514. I hope you didn't vote for it then.
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  7515.  @apurbasingha2552  No I'm not but people will admit things under torture just to stop the torture. That's why statements produced by torture are not admissable in the courts of proper democratic systems.
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  7516.  @ilsedemolder3973  Were they? Where did you see that?
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  7517. It's machismo that is ridiculous in this day and age. It prompts insecure men to do silly things to make themselves feel better.
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  7518. The reunification would simplify things in terms of Brexit. Reunification is possible democratically, under The Good Friday Agreement, if people vote for it.
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  7519.  @elgringo1893  That's good, but how are the people ever to escape with even more forces aimed at them?
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  7520.  @elgringo1893  That awful Chechen man, ally of Putin and sycophant, has recently revealed Putin's plans - secure the Donbas and then go back to attacking Kyiv and all the other towns and villages. Heaven help them. It seems as though this war is going to continue a long time. I hope Putin runs out of money if Europe manages to wean itself off Russian gas.
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  7521. She's a very good actress. Here she is deliberately "play acting" to entrap the Duchess of Gloucester as a prelude to bringing down the Gloucesters.
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  7522. That's a qualification for a mate, not a political leader. We already had that in Boris Johnson. How can people be so naive?
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  7523. I think she just doesn't want to play lovey dovey for the cameras if it doesn't reflect the truth behind the cameras.
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  7524. Courts deal in facts and evidence.
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  7525. Charles gave her that title though, so nit's technically correct.
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  7526. It's dongle. 'A dongle is a small USB device that allows you to access the internet. It can also be referred to as a Wi-Fi dongle, USB modem, internet stick, USB network adapter or USB mobile broadband stick. Dongles are popular because they offer greater flexibility than fixed line connections and can be used on the go.'
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  7527.  @secilrods5170  I know. It's a 'double entendre' but it's not a real word outside of its original meaning. It just sounds like it might have a rude meaning, and that's funny enough. A lot of traditional British humour includes double entendres and innuendo based on plays on words.
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  7528.  @HM-wl1nu  If someone threatens you with a gun there are few choices. Actually the key moment is not captured on camera. He seems to be going to overtake the van but what happens just as he passes it is not on camera. However you can hear gunshots and the guy himself is unarmed. Then you see the guy trying to grab the gun of one of the gunmen and the two of them tussling before more shots.
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  7529. He lives in a fantasy world. Still supporting the man who wouldn't pay him.
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  7530. Rees- Mogg understands nothing about the real world. He would be even worse than Johnson
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  7531. The one who we see charging him had a taser which brought him down. Getting to the scene of the crime quickly was obviously more important in protecting the public than waiting for an armed response unit to be assembled.
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  7532. If they did understand they would not care although they would say they do.
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  7533.  Rehan  I'm not trying to please racists but to add some facts where they is only prejudice.
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  7534.  Mr Jingles  I've never starved under any government. So what? Plenty of people have.
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  7535. No it's not. Why state this divisive rubbish? The Tories have a raft of bad measures they want to impose on London to recoup their money. The Tories have backed down over no support for tier 2 areas, (London is one of those) but they only do that when the Tory MPs whinge that it's going to hit their Tory constituencies, otherwise they're be o.k about hitting Labour areas like London, Manchester and Liverpool.
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  7536. I wonder if he died and then she took her own life.
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  7537. All the lying make me sick, and the fact that some people believe it makes me sicker.
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  7538.  @psychoblack1411  That only works if the new job is different from the old. If it's the same job at a different rate that is breaking employment law because it's not true redundancy. Redundancy is defined as the work no longer existing, not the employees being replaced with cheaper ones. Employees who have been working for years have certain employment rights. They are not subject to fire and rehire.
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  7539. It's just shysterism and chicanery. They know very well what the situation is.
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  7540.  @liambeaumont1803  Well he's only in credit if you count his assets, otherwise he's in debt. The banks are after him and he'll be facing numerous court cases, so it won't be pleasant for him out of office.
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  7541.  @chimanmac3639  How would you know?
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  7542.  @mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm435  That's not a mantra Trump abides by.
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  7543. Everything to them is 'God willing' because they believe everything is in the hands of God.
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  7544. Whether it's a crime or not surely it depends on what you are colluding to do? If you are colluding to throw a surprise birthday party, that's not a crime. If you are colluding to commit fraud or betray your country, etc that would be a crime.
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  7545. Bold faced, not bald faced.
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  7546.  @jamesstuart6819  Very well. How are you?
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  7547.  @jamesstuart6819  Have we come across each other before on youtube?
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  7548.  @jamesstuart6819  It's not the purpose of my visiting this site.
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  7549.  @0saintclark0  Indeed unless it's even unsafe for its own citizens.
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  7550. Only sycophants are welcome to hear Tory Party bollocks.
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  7551.  @stevenmacdonald9619  Agreements to end wars often require compromises.
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  7552. Don't you mean 'illegally'?
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  7553. Grow up.
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  7554. Yanis Varoufakis, said Greece's problem started because German bankers pushed loans at them, because Greeks, had low debt and so many of them owned their own houses outright without mortgages. Varoufakis said he got credit cards through his door that he didn't even apply for. Same with Ireland, when I was over there before the crash, they were all building these ugly metal sheds because the EU was providing grants for them to do so.
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  7555.  @philmarland7647  There are Labour MPs who do. Maybe with a different leader....or they may be able to influence Corbyn.
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  7556.  @markuk8803  If you think Boris Johnson represents anything other than the interests of the rich and tax avoiding financial speculators, he's got you fooled. Stop reading The Daily Mail and the like.
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  7557.  Johnny Bravo  Learn to improve your English so you can read more than the Sun and the Daily Mail. * must have swallowed * off drugs * It is bad
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  7558.  Roborav  The people who are not stupid enough to vote Tory vote for her.
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  7559.  @nickking7494  Ad hominem twaddle.
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  7560.  @nickking7494  Are you The Daily Mail ignoramus then?
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  7561. *you're
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  7562.  @highpath4776  The other options were to remain in the customs union (that would mean no outside trade deals but since none of those deals are better than we had in the EU and there are fewer of them, that's not much of a price to pay though there may be a fee for being in the customs union) or stay in the single market but without being part of the EU (that would mean paying a fee, abiding by all the single market rules but having no say on them). I wish we had at least stayed in the customs union.
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  7563.  @johnoconnor6962  I think it's to do with their perceived audiences and ownership. Sky Australia is owned by Rupert Murdoch, a right winger, and as Australia has a right wing government, the channel presumes the voters in their audience are mostly right wing sympathisers, I guess.
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  7564.  Andy Goldie  Interesting that you are o.k with immigrants that are right wing. The Tories also British working class people by the way.
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  7565. Geographers.
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  7566. People scared of his friends and role models, Putin, Kim Jong Un.
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  7567. The person making the speech doesn't look or sound like Daniel Radcliffe. AI generated?
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  7568. What was it that attracted her in that log, I wonder?
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  7569.  @TruthHurts-s7g  There are only two options on fitting NI into Brexit. 1) Break the Good Friday Agreement by having a trade border in the Island of Ireland. 2) A trade border in the Irish sea. Boris Johnson signed up to the latter, supported by the DUP. The trade advantage is for NI as they can receive and trade goods with the EU without barriers. The disadvantage is with the UK as there is a trade barrier between NI and Great Britain. However Great Britain is not imposing any border controls as yet on goods coming into GB from NI or from Continental Europe. The only country suffering from it is Great Britain (exporters) but having more border controls and bureaucracy was voted for by the UK as a whole (though not Scotland or NI individually) since it was an inevitable consequence of Brexit.
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  7570. Trump and Musk are entertaining in a 'mad as a box of frogs' kind of way. In England centuries ago, people used to visit the mental asylum called 'Bedlam' to watch the loonies for the same sort of entertainment.
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  7571. Hitchens need a face mask to hide his ugly mug. I'm fed up of these whining whingers. How would they have got on in WW2 if they had to wear gas masks for goodness sake? They have it easy in comparison and Hitchens earns his living by being a 'controversialist'. He has to take a contrarian view always to keep a profile in the media.
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  7572. Asians are hard working too. That's how they get the money to buy property.
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  7573. On the video he was labelled as a Republican. Who writes that stuff?
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  7574. Scotland and Wales may just not be at the top of the 'most cases' list.
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  7575. What do you mean by anti Brit? She's just anti Boris, or do you think support for a corrupt government is the way to demonstrate patriotism?
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  7576. Hand washing is enough.
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  7577.  @1940ssinger  Yes it is. Covid guidance tells people to wash their hands. It doesn't require them to wear gloves. In theory gloves would not save you unless they were changed after every time you touched something. My friend currently studying science gets a science magazine which frequently has articles on Covid and she said they are discovering that the virus is spread more from close contact with someone who has the virus through what they breathe out, rather than by touching surfaces. Of course nurses wear gloves to be on the safe side if they are dealing with someone with Covid but I'm guessing this woman has been tested to ensure she is Covid free before having the injection, and after having the injection she'll be protected.
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  7578. Just call it aluminium as the Brits do so the tax on aluminum won't apply. Ha ha.
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  7579.  @fatherson5907  What contributions? You know what percentage of your taxes went to the NHS in each year and you were able to compare it to the cost of your treatment and the premiums and cost of treatment you would have incurred in the USA?
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  7580.  @fatherson5907  The NHS is funded from general taxation of which NI contributions only form a part. NI contributions also entitle you to sick pay and old age pensions (provided you have at least 10 years contributions towards a pension), maternity allowance for women, incapacity benefit, and contribution based job seeker's allowance. What does the $1000 per year cost for private healthcare entitle you to? Private healthcare premiums also increase with age don't they and not everyone is covered (people without jobs)? So you are not comparing like with like in comparing UK NI contributions to a health only annual insurance premium. Current UK NI contributions are: '12% of your earnings between £8,632 and £50,000 and 2% on any earnings above £50,000.' Under £8632 p.a. NI contributions are not payable. I must say that NI rates have gone up in percentage terms in the UK under the Tory governments, which is typical, (at one time they were capped) but Tory governments have cut income tax rates.
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  7581. Trump better realise that dictatorship never ends well.
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  7582.  Goat Man  We are the weak ones now. Strength isn't denoted by aggression, bullying and stupidity.
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  7583.  @1chish  I have plenty of pride in my country and its ability to succeed if it wasn't in the hands of F*ckwits who have no grasp on reality. If they were really proud of our country they'd make sure our banks invested in our inventions rather than letting them be cherry picked by foreign multinationals. They would not have let many of our companies. eg. chocolate companies, energy companies, water companies, rail companies etc be taken over or run by foreign companies and would not have barred British competition from getting this business. They would not let foreign business take over NHS services and they would not have privatised any of these businesses/services in the first place. They would not let foreign companies trading in Britain avoid tax or buy up property for investment or money laundering purposes and then leave them empty. Oh yes I've pride in my country, much more than the rogues in government. I also have an understanding of trade rules and the trade environment and understand that the mess they've got us in coming out of the EU was entirely predictable and they were warned about it many times. Gove said they didn't want to listen to any 'experts' though, remember?
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  7584.  @1chish  Yes I am a socialist and a remainer. British companies have been barred from taking part in tendering for some English rail franchises. Scotland doesn't have such a big population and not as much passenger traffic as England (not as much profit available) so I guess they had to allow a Scottish firm to take that area. I do know about trade rules as I bothered to look them up unlike many Brexiteers. Being a socialist does not mean I don't know how markets work - quite the opposite. I wasn't calling voters f*ckwits. I was calling the lying politicians f*ckwits. I can't be bothered saying more now because you seem to think you know me better than myself since you interpret what I think and mean for me without knowing me and without any connection to the reality. You like the fact that corporations can avoid tax though employees cannot. There have been cases of cleaners paying more tax than their CE employers. I don't happen to think that's fair or just. Enough.
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  7585.  @1chish  Thatcher signed the Single European Market act and made sacrifices to do so, and was therefore probably unwittingly an architect of bringing about the EU. https://ukandeu.ac.uk/margaret-thatcher-the-critical-architect-of-european-integration/
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  7586.  @1chish  I've remembered what it was now. It was the fact that railway companies owned by foreign states could run our railways but our state wasn't allowed to (though the government has taken over franchises when the franchise arrangements have failed but only on a temporary basis before refranchising.) https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/01/british-rail-franchises-foreign-owners-subsidy.
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  7587.  @1chish  The EU did not oblige the UK to pirvatise railyways in the first place. Plenty of railways in the EU are state owned and the EU does not force them to privatise. Here is a round up of the ownership of British rail franchises by foreign state owned rail companies https://fullfact.org/economy/who-owns-britains-trains-energy-postal/
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  7588.  @1chish  The fourth rail package doesn't come into effect until 2023 it seems and it looks to me as though it forces the opening up of all lines to competition but only subsidised ones. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-railways-eu-rules-nationalise-single-market-restrictions-labour-a8968691.html The British model is in any case bad and is badly overseen by the government and it's former Transport Minister 'Failing Grayling'.
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  7589.  @1chish  Astonishing since I don't particularly know any Labour soundbites or that they do them. I just looked at the rail directive links you sent me and a bit of analysis.
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  7590.  @user-zi3ee8oj1i  Too early to say but the early signs aren't good so far. Of course there will be major changes. We would not have come out if it was all going to be the same. The extent to which there will be changes will depend on what our government wants to do, over what timescale, how quickly it wants to move away from EU rules, and whether we get any free trade deals. Otherwise we will be trading on WTO rules from Jan 2021, which will be a major change.
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  7591.  England Forever  Too late. She's dead.
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  7592.  @user-zi3ee8oj1i  That may be so,but the most important thing for them is not to have an economy on their doorstep that undermines the very existence of the EU, so the more Britain wants to diverge from EU rules the more difficult it will be to get any deal. The integrity of the EU is more important to the EU than any single sector of trade.
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  7593.  @user-zi3ee8oj1i  I agree with you ideally. Unfortunately 'fairness' doesn't come into trade deals. It's a power thing. That's the rude reality. We'll see how it pans out. Here's an example of EU power play against the UK now that the UK is no longer in the EU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZzzSsCaZ2U
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  7594.  Goat Man  Are they? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZzzSsCaZ2U
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  7595.  Teresa Watts  I look forward to hearing about your dental trips to people who are not experts but just have opinions, similarly your surgical procedures, your legal cases and the work on your house all being carried out by non qualified people with 'opinions'. Let us know how you get on.
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  7596.  Teresa Watts  Tell what to the Commission?Now we are outside of the EU they have no obligation to listen to us.
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  7597.  Teresa Watts  The EU is starting to make its demands for a trade deal. e.g that Britain pays more in fees for one than when it was inside the EU. They have started blacklisting tax havens used by wealthy Brits, such as the Cayman Islands. Spain is asking for Gibraltar to be excluded from any trade deal and Greece wants the Elgin Marbles back from the British Museum. France wants fishing rights etc etc etc It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
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  7598.  Teresa Watts  But the UK will need a deal sooner or later because options outside of that seem to be closing down. We are not in a good negotiating place.
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  7599.  Teresa Watts  I think so because Australia, New Zealand and the US are not in a hurry for a deal with the UK. They are prioritising a deal with the EU, and Canada is in no rush for a deal with the UK either. This is the feedback coming from these countries via the news. In any case comprehensive trade deals take years to negotiate.The UK has tried to shorten the process by asking the EU for an 'off the peg' deal based on Canada's deal with the EU, but the EU said that's not possible because it's o.k for a distant country, but not for one sitting on their doorstep as a potential competitor.
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  7600.  Teresa Watts  Well it's going to be a rough ride trading on WTO terms. Most countries try to avoid relying on those.
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  7601.  Teresa Watts  No I don't want us to fail but we can't just wish upon a star. I'm looking at the facts. You are wishing and hoping.
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  7602.  Teresa Watts  Sorry, I'm a realist, or you might call me a pessimist (that means I'm never disappointed). You are an optimist it seems. I gave up 'faith' a long time ago. When you've lived longer and had more experience you will probably become more cynical. That tends to be the way of things, the more experience people have.
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  7603.  Teresa Watts  I'm glad to hear it. If you've kept optimistic for so long that's no bad thing. I just find that realism has served me well in my lifetime.
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  7604.  @X774M  No, Boris was worse.
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  7605.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  You are easily pleased it seems.
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  7606.  @mikehunt2268  ????
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  7607.  @gazzascouse  Covid attacks the organs so in patients whose hearts kidneys etc are already weak it can kill them. The excess deaths figure shows that more people are dying over the period of Covid than is average for the same time in previous years to the tune of around 50k. That's a corroborating statistic,
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  7608.  @MsSamanthaTKO  The excess deaths figure demonstrates that more people have died during the covid pandemic than is average for the same period in earlier years, to the tune of 50,000. For most of the period people dying were only counted as covid patients if they had tested positive. At the time, people dying at home and in care homes weren't being tested for covid, so the stats for covid were understated rather than overstated. The excess death figure demonstrates this.
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  7609.  @DarkMatterX1  Yours too?
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  7610. It said his record showed he's never used his gun though he has pulled it on people.
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  7611.  @baseball2246  On what charge?
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  7612.  @ruthadamik9446  So let's get a sense of proportion on this.
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  7613.  @daveapplemotors  No, I don't think so.
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  7614. The government has never had and will never have a transport strategy because the Conservatives don't believe in central planning. They waste so much money because of an absence of strategy.
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  7615. You only have to watch the film 'The Apprentice' to see how Trump will screw over even those closest to him so why would he care about anyone else?
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  7616. The Reform Party? Ha Ha they are even more clueless and would be worse.
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  7617. The system in the USA didn't used to be as bad as it is now if you look into the history of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NvnOUcG-ZI&t=250s
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  7618. Brexiteers just never understood the economics.
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  7619. That's peanuts in the scale of things, that's why. If people keep focusing on that they miss the bigger picture.
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  7620. He is known among colleagues as dim and lazy. Just what's not needed.
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  7621. This muppet or that muppet? Tweedledum or Tweedledee?
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  7622.  @muaddib667  Well he probably couldn't win either way.
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  7623. I'm sure all PMs talk to and listen to their partners but we don't normally get to hear about it. I think that Cummings and Cain are one trick ponies. They only care about Brexit. They don't care about the Conservative government or whether it stays in power. Appointing Cain as Chief of Staff was a power grab by Cummings. It failed because the Tory party want people who can keep the Tories in power.
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  7624. How do you know? What do you really know about these 4 including evidence or whether they were just beaten into pleading guilty with the threat of more of the same if they do not.
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  7625.  @struck2soon  Firstly I understood your previous comment to be referring to the Labour Party in government, not the Cabinet. A change of Cabinet members is neither here nor there in the scale of things. I doubt the Foreign Secretary believes what you said. Evidence?
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  7626.  @Snowforest60  You must have your head on the wrong way round.
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  7627.  @struck2soon  Mostly it is the PM that drives policy. I'm about to look at your link. Incidentally I was censured for putting a link in youtube (to another youtube music video) so I didn't think that was allowable any more. Maybe it's just music linking that's not allowed for some reason.
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  7628.  @struck2soon  I've just looked at the link. I think Lammy was referring to uterine implant surgery possibly) rather than growing a cervix, but he doesn't sound confident in what he's saying and I can't find evidence that it's been successfully carried out in anyone born a man. Still many people might be confused over such issues if they don't follow developments in that subject closely.
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  7629.  @lamenzies  I'm sure they do. The married men all seemed to marry one.
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  7630. More of a pillock guy than a pillow guy?
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  7631.  @slackdee  That's not true. For a number of reasons 1) Doctors are professionals and do not write false causes on certificates 2) The excess deaths figures which are calculated from the figures for all deaths, from whatever reason, from the death registers, compared to the average figures from the same sources for previous years, reveal an excess death figure that indicates that Covid deaths are understated rather than overstated. In the UK that ties in with the fact that elderly hospital patients who were untested for Covid were sent out to care homes and spread Covid there causing many deaths, but the people they infected in care homes were also untested for Covid because in the first few months of the pandemic only hospital patients were tested. People dying at home, if their GPs could not, or did not, get them into hospital were also untested for Covid when they died.
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  7632. What about Raoul Wallenberg?
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  7633. Subtitles are amusingly wrong.
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  7634. I know someone else who kept emphasising stability like them. He said he was a 'very stable genius'. Are they in some way related?
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  7635. Probably the one would go down with the other.
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  7636.  @UfcClippaz  *breathe
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  7637. BBC using the word deliverance as if it means the same as delivery. Tut tut. Standards have dropped.
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  7638. That's because you are a turkey.
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  7639.  @fentonfairway5793  Don't be silly. You've been reading too much trash media.
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  7640. She needs to think of some questions that are different from 'how do you feel' which most of her questions started with, and she behaves like someone who is overacting
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  7641. No, you have to go to jail in Texas for that.
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  7642.  @tonl4738  About the US election, there was never convincing or any evidence presented to the courts. About the vaccine. I've had it (the Astra Zeneca one at least). I have flu vaccines every year and have had all my childhood vaccines. True I've now grown 2 heads but it's a small price to pay.
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  7643. Isn't it ironic that the studies are being done in countries whose populations already get enough vitamin D from the sun rather than those who don't.
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  7644. Black cats are good luck in the UK. I had 2 black cat brothers. They were extremely friendly, intelligent and conversational.
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  7645. That's the very reason the public should take an interest. Corruption relies on voter apathy and complacency, in order to continue on its merry way.
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  7646.  @FunnyCallsPrank  But Switzerland has adopted various provisions of EU law in order to participate in the EU's single market. The UK does not want to do that.
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  7647.  @03056932  That's true. They can't reward leavers, for fear of encouraging other leavers, but we and they have always known that.
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  7648. It's worrying if doctors are going to be dismissed for not having the vaccine. The other side of the debate says this is as much about transmitting the virus as self protection. His antibodies may protect him, but they won't protect patients he may transmit the virus to. Having said that, the vaccination only reduces the risk of transmission. It doesn't prevent it, and if he's only dealing with Covid patients, they already have Covid. What wasn't discussed was why he didn't want the vaccine. Does he consider it to be risky to him?
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  7649.  @redbaron6322  If it was fake news it would have no reputation and no viewers. If you are searching for fake news there are far better places to look like social media. Once you have been duped, you start to become cynical and disbelieve every source of news, except all the conspiracy theorists. Fake news is very effective at getting you to ignore real news too. That's how it works.
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  7650. Why would they want Boebert anyway? That's what does not make sense.
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  7651. It's despicable that Savile targeted Broadmoor patients who were less likely to be listened to and less likely to want to admit they had been Broadmoor patients, and spinal injuries patients at Stoke Mandeville where patients would not be able to move their lower limbs or move away from Savile. They would be sitting ducks.
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  7652. The Tory government wants this strike, to try and break the RMT union, to attack Labour and as a great distraction from what else they are getting up to.
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  7653. I think that Murdoch is just on a power trip. That's all that motivates him now. Rupert's daughter is called Elizabeth. I thought anyone interested in current affairs knew that.
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  7654.  @michaelmather7352  And with our 'sovereign' government there's now more shit up the creek than ever.
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  7655.  @evolassunglasses4673  These are nebulous theories. In practical terms what power was it that Westminster lacked that adversely affected people before Brexit.
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  7656.  @evolassunglasses4673  The power in the EU was always with individual states who co-operated/shared it volutarily. EU directives only became effective in countries when their parliaments voted them into those countries laws.
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  7657.  @toriphillips3566  None.
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  7658.  @monkeynews8311  No. People can have a different opinion from me and I respect that if it's reasoned and evidence based, but in this case it's a lack of common sense.
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  7659. Terrble person
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  7660. The flu has different variants each year but we have flu vaccines tweaked each year for new variants. They don't always stop people catching flu, because vaccines are always playing catch up with new variants. However they usually do make them less serious in their effects on humans.
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  7661.  @thestonecollector.3416  Where, where? Quick hide.
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  7662.  @donaltrekr7550  This is tragic, but I think they are misusing the word extinct as a synonym for dead. They are dead, but not extinct unless there are no more Asian elephants anywhere in the world.
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  7663. Why? They are trying to save British taxpayers from the worst value deal since Boris spaffed so much Covid money uselessly up the wall. The Lords can only push it back to the Commons to reconsider their objections but they can't ultimately block it if the Commons is determined to go ahead with it.
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  7664.  @chatham43  In third world countries most people have little power and can't stop corporations ripping them off in collusion with their government and can't stop their streams and rivers being polluted and their environments being degraded, and often can't afford to feed themselves and their families, er, er, er.
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  7665. She would never have got a seat up there. Why Mid Beds voted for her, I've no idea.
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  7666. You need to get out more. There are millions of them but they don' travel as they can't afford it.
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  7667.  @osric1730  I knew the head was a supporter but even former supporters of Putin have been criticising the war recently and have paid with their lives but if the head of the church felt that Christmas was not being respected, unfavourable words from him could influence a lot of people. However you are probably right. If Putin sincerely cared at all about religion, and what it means, he wouldn't be engaged in such a murderous enterprise. Besides, Putin is a constant and devious liar and his word cannot be trusted.
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  7668. Seems feral to me but maybe he was once owned by a human and remembers.
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  7669. They want chairs that cost more than $5000 each the Trump government. They talked about draining the swamp but soon changed their minds as they needed somewhere to dump the old furniture. They think your taxes are just funds to hand around between them and their friends.
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  7670. Names aren't mentioned until the person is charged.
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  7671.  @mohamedabdillahi6180  Well last I heard the police had not interviewed him as he was receiving treatment in hospital. I don't suppose it will be long though.
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  7672.  @mohamedabdillahi6180  Read a decent source of news or maybe the Mirror didn't come out in time to issue the latest. news. TV news would be more up to date. His name is Marcus Monzo. He has dual Spanish and Brazilian nationality. Those countries are mostly Catholic but whether he has any beliefs I don't know. He was previously registered as a Director of a real estate company. It sounds like he had some mental breakdown or psychotic episode. I expect more will be revealed on that at the trial.
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  7673. What a shallow and nasty comment, reflecting more on who said it than on Donatella Versace. You forget she is not young and no doubt are comparing her with an ideal of youth and average facial proportions. Her face has character and it's good that she has not been tempted to have all that horrendous surgery that makes you face look like a plastic mask. Good for her, good for real faces!
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  7674. Thorpe just asked a friend who got an acquaintance to do it. He'd never done one before and the gun jammed after he shot the dog.
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  7675.  @llVIU  Then we will need more immigration in order to have a generation to pay tax for our services and old age pensions. I expect that when she had a child she thought they would raise it as a couple, but something went wrong in the relationship. Perhaps he just left her.
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  7676. So now Jair Bolsonaro has it. He who thought it was all a fuss over nothing and did nothing to protect the health of his citizens. Karma, that.
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  7677. Different level of knowledge and education. However not many talking heads were interviewed in Tamworth and it's not clear they were representative.
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  7678.  @fiddley  Those interviewed mainly sounded like Conservatives by default, yet Labour won the by-election. Perhaps that's because many Conservatives didn't vote.
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  7679.  @fasteddiejs  The excess deaths figure, which shows how many more people are dying than usual, is taken from the register of deaths. You can't register a death twice, and the excess deaths figure shows, that the number of Covid deaths are likely under counted.
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  7680.  Albert Pike  Absolutely not. Would you care to tell me the benefits of fooling people in a situation like this? None at all.
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  7681.  @Dexterslaboratory89  Like who? Not their own people. I'm not defending US assassinations either but they've not been on the same scale as Putin's.
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  7682. Manufacturing has been in decline since Thatcher's time when she said we didn't need it. The Tories thought we could just buy everything cheaply from China but China had to close it's manufacturing down for weeks because of the virus. Britain is now making the equipment but some British businesses are saying they are not getting orders from the government for the equipment. I suspect that's because the government has tied the NHS to some exclusive contract with China in the past and they're not being open about cause of the supply problems.
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  7683. Why would the Queen give a Knighthood to someone who insults her family. Jog on.
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  7684.  @silvergunner4200  Why does Farage deserve a Knighthood, for campaigning for the UK to leave the EU? It's not proven yet that it's a benefit and Knighthoods are usually awarded when someone has also worked a lot for charitable purposes. Knighthoods would not be awarded for a controversial political policy that has split Parliament, split the country and will probably break up the UK (The Queen would not be pleased with any break up of the UK.)
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  7685.  @silvergunner4200  Say that to the Queen who is half Scottish and spends a lot of her Summers there. Your original question was about a knighthood for Farage. The Queen would not reward anyone for bringing about the break up of the UK.
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  7686.  @silvergunner4200  Well, the civil servants who compile the list for Knighthoods are aware and sensitive enough not to list anyone that would upset the Queen.
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  7687. Eh?
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  7688.  @imemine6494  Don't judge a book by its cover.
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  7689.  @imemine6494  A bit too simpering and treacherous, for my liking but then I'm influenced by her personality and I'm not a guy.
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  7690.  @imemine6494  I know, but I believe her motivation was money. She's not really a person of principle. She just knew she'd got her hands on something lucrative and could spin it as being in the public interest. Also, her partner is Richard Tice of the Reform Party which hopes to benefit from voters' disillusionment with the Tory Party. What she's doing has the side effect of benefitting her partner's political career.
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  7691.  @ruthhadfield9726  Exposure good. It still does not make me trust or like Oakshott. She's not a principled person and her 2 underlying motives are self gain, and damaging the Tories because her partner is the leader of a rival party, The Reform Party.
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  7692. Well it would fit with the current Tory government mindset.
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  7693.  @johnf3885  I don't think it can 'overrule' the judiciary except by changing the law. After all one of the basic protections of the democratic system is the separation of powers between the executive, the legislative and the judiciary.
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  7694.  @neilpickup237  At present retrials can only happen on an individual basis and there were over 700 people charged I understand. I'm not sure that offering no evidence would dismiss the evidence previously offered and considered by the courts. The process is through the courts of appeal showing how the previous trial was faulty or that new evidence has come to light that would exonerate people - a slower process.
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  7695. The British never refer to the NHS as 'socialized medicine'. That's very much a US term. Private Healthcare in the UK relies on staff whose training has been paid for by the NHS. Also if anything goes wrong with private healthcare, the patient will be transferred to the NHS because Private Hospitals don't have Accident and Emergency Departments. The NHS tends to be a political football with various governments having different beliefs and political stances on it and it has been subjected to many 'reforms', often for political reasons, which can be expensive. This is sometimes reflected in the length of 'waiting lists' for non urgent operations for instance. Under the last Labour government (ending 2010) the NHS had the shortest ever waiting lists and the highest satisfaction survey results. When the Conservatives came to power they abolished a number of treatment targets, and for a number of years gave NHS staff no pay increases, not even to keep up with inflation, and staff vacancies and waiting lists grew. Funding was also tightly restricted during the times of 'austerity'. The Conservatives have usually favoured private medicine and privatisation of the NHS (The Conservative Health Secretary for many years after 2010 was Jeremy Hunt and he had written a paper on privatising the NHS before being appointed). The Conservative government spent £3billion on a 'reform' that created many quangos, all to push for many NHS services to be put out to contract so private providers could get an increasing share of the pie. In the current Coronavirus crisis, the government would have been lost without a national service that can rapidly pull together and co-ordinate its response but the underfunding of the service over a decade has come back to bite the government. I hope that's a lesson learned.
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  7696.  @wayneronnie7402  Not from 1 January. It will require more paperwork and all must be perfect and it must be pre-authorised by a customs agent, or something like that - unless we get a last minute deal of course, but that doesn't seem likely now.
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  7697. The government gave them no alternative. They are destroying the railways in their ignorance and greed.
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  7698. It's all said to be based on legal advice that we are not allowed to know. He's also trying to justify the death by starvation in Gaza as a result of the attack on Israel on October 7th as if that allows Israel to break international humanitarian law. What a w****r
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  7699. That's nonsensical 'what iffery' backed by no evidence. Workers pay has historically been higher under Labour. People were not worse off.
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  7700. Don't blame Labour for years of Tory austerity, Anna Soubry!
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  7701. Where did you get that figure from? The government announced that it was £22m if I recall correctly and that works out at £29 per person. Other councils got £29 or £28 per person also.
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  7702.  @andyshepherd4120  So was this Daily Mail article wrong? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8860289/Boris-Johnson-plunges-Greater-Manchester-Tier-Three-lockdown.html
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  7703.  @andyshepherd4120  P.S. O.k. The BBC seems to have the latest info. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-54628770
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  7704. 'I'm not hurting you, you're hurting me' Lol
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  7705. The guy arrested looked was white and grey haired.
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  7706. It shows that when Fox News rates its audience as gullible idiots, it will keep feeding the idiocy as long as it makes them money.
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  7707. Sometimes I think such friendly dogs must be the beloved pets of family members, maybe children, and it's a parent who abandons it and then tells the children it was lost.
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  7708. They don't seem to be paying much attention to the Irish President. The Bidens seem wrapped up in each other - a bit disrespectful really.
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  7709. The thumbnail title creator can't spell 'hordes'. The Tories have no control over immigration now because they don't want to spend on effective public services like border controls. Labour will at least exert some controls. If migrants always go to cities they are hardly likely to want to 'flood every corner of the country' where jobs don't exist.
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  7710. It's worse than the 'Blitz'. People in the 'Blitz' still had access to food, water and heating and were able to move out of the target areas.
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  7711. This is not compassion. Putin has shown he has none, but this is Christmas in the calendar of the Russian orthodox Church. Putin wants to keep them onside. 'Nazis' is just the fake excuse Russia used to justify the invasion of Ukraine. Putin is now behaving like a fascist dictator.
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  7712.  @kevinhughes720  I certainly do, do you? There are plenty of examples from history, if you do not.
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  7713. And here's some more bad news. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24du25osgRY
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  7714. *their buyer deposit * fewer homes. Word legitimately is unnecessary and adds nothing to the meaning of the sentence.
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  7715.  @forret  You seem to be assuming that the British produce no children.
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  7716. Oh yeah. That's typically Marxist - that's why Marx lived and died in poverty but for his friend Engels. This is turning the truth on its head, which is what right wingers do whenever they are confronted with uncomfortable facts. In a Marxist society there would be no royals and that would not suit her at all.
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  7717.  @mancal5829  Sorry if I missed something. I've an aversion to reading too much crap.
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  7718.  @Strifegar  O.K. Maybe he will take up the suggestion.
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  7719. It's true that the virus itself is not Chinese (a virus has no nationality) but let's not disregard the fact that the virus emanated first from China because China has allowed dangerous practices in 'wet markets' which are killing and selling exotic animals as well as domestic ones, and China only ever seems to ban these practices on a temporary basis, (previously SARS arose from such a source in China also) and that's not to mention the horrendous animal cruelty that goes on in those markets. Racism is hideous, but let's not brush difficult facts under the carpet for fear of it being called racist. It was fear of being called racist that prevented proper investigation of exploitation of vulnerable young girls in the UK also. We must distinguish between racism and the need to deal with injustices and unsafe practices. Yes it has become a global crisis and yes we do have to deal with it together, internationally.
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  7720. Putin is a monster towards anyone who expresses dissent. There are many other 'accidental' deaths of Putin's opponents.
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  7721. Or rather the incident has impacted on the 'hatred between police and the public' by improving relationships?
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  7722. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AviADrhX-v8&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=43&t=0s
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  7723. Congratulations for ticking so many stereotype boxes.
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  7724.  @stephenongley6885  It's not that they didn't give a 'rats arse about the dangers of smoking'. They weren't aware of them in those times. I think it was as late as the 1970s when the dangers of smoking began to be realised and publicised. People probably were happier but then my smoker Dad died far too young of lung cancer and so did most of his friends.
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  7725.  @mustafaaboshaala4342  Yes. Col Gaddafi funded them.
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  7726. So the way to show whether the documents are a security risk is to show them to all and sundry? What fatuous arguments these Trump defenders come up with.
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  7727. Hitchens is a silly person.
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  7728.  @jaunt3603  Or to look at it another way, a shortage of supplies.
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  7729. He's Unarranged his Un meeting
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  7730.  @smokemeakipper1076  Oh dear oh dear, that's a desperate theory. Keep smoking those kippers.
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  7731.  @merrybutcher2978  Who did they kill? That wasn't the norm, I think.
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  7732. Don't be silly.
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  7733.  @lennydale92  Bangladesh has said she does not have their citizenship and would be immediately executed if she entered Bangladesh. Presumably this politician thinks she should face trial in Britain where she was born and lived before she went to Syria.
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  7734.  @lennydale92  'The Government of Bangladesh, has stated that Begum does not currently hold Bangladeshi citizenship and would not be allowed to enter the country.' (Wikipedia)
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  7735.  @lennydale92  Neither is the UK but I don't care about her in particular. It's the principle of the thing because the government can then do it to other citizens at a whim.
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  7736. ERCOT were never boy scouts. Motto: 'Be Prepared'. They prefer to demonstrate the faults in 'go it alone' unregulated capitalism (energy sector).
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  7737. They tried to send a relative of mine home though his wife was not allowed to visit him in hospital as he had Covid. What they said to her was ' the government wants us to free up beds' so you can see who was pulling the strings on that one. The government guidance on their website even acknowledges that they were sending infected patients from hospitals to care homes but it said that care homes were equipped to deal with sick patients. At that time that was not true.
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  7738.  @SnowofLight  The 'rules' about those hospitals was that if patients were transferred from other hospitals, they would only be accepted if the transferring hospital sent staff to care for them. Hospitals could not afford to split up their staff like that. Also I understand it was difficult if not impossible to get patients from care homes admitted to those new hospitals or elderly patients from their own homes - probably for the same reason - no staff to care for them there.
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  7739.  @SnowofLight  Hospitals stopped non urgent work so that they could transfer sufficient staff to look after Covid patients. Those staff were already fully busy with Covid patients at those hospitals. There was no spare capacity. When you think that there were thousands of new Covid patients every day and they might be in hospital for as much as 2 weeks or longer, you're looking at hospitals nationwide coping with over 100,000 Covid patients at any one time.
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  7740.  @arthurdick9553  Knock it off, Arthur!
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  7741.  @mikeparker9794  Wilfred is not the Doctor's name. It's the name of Boris's grandfather. Boris had 2 Doctors both called Nick (Nicholas).
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  7742. Trucking hell!
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  7743.  @Law9652  'A response' then from an MP or 'a comment' if you like. Semantics doesn't change the fact that it was said.
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  7744.  @bl0ated_  No. Anyone caught lying to Parliament would have to resign in the past and they did. Many do, as an alternative, avoid answering, deflect, give a partial truth, mislead, change the subject etc but not outright lies to this extent and carry on as if it's all o.k.
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  7745.  @bl0ated_  What lies did Clement Attlee tell?
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  7746. So when he tries to take over Gaza, who is going to save Trump from the inevitable retaliation?
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  7747.  @yusuftankisi  That's interesting, but if it wasn't up to standard it wasn't usable.
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  7748. The education for women will only be religious education.
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  7749. Sometimes there's an obvious suspect or a witness.
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  7750. My mother's family and ancestry come from Ireland around the river Shannon. Their family name is Beirne, said to be from Norse Bjorn. I read that Danish Vikings came down the Shannon from Limerick and settled along the sides of the Shannon. You were describing Danish Viking hair colour as black. That's also what I read about those particular invaders, and my mother's family's hair was black. Also my father's family came from Ireland via Wales. Originally they were either Norman or came to Ireland with the Normans (who were once Vikings) although much Irish intermarriage would have taken place since that time. That family was said to be 'proud of their black hair'. My grandfather had black hair but his son, my father, had red hair and 4 of his 5 children had red hair. Though my hair started out reddish it turned black before I was an adult. My eyes are grey. My 4 red headed siblings were half-siblings, their mother having died while they were young. My half siblings' red hair was very thick as was my grandfather's. My half brother and grandfather never went bald though my father did. My brother had 4 children, all red heads though the hair of his 2 sons started turning black in late adulthood.
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  7751. Just keep well away from him.
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  7752.  @ewancarmichael3412  But it's always been said that he was never keen on the EU which is why he sat on the fence. If he only did what Starmer advised, that's some lack of judgement isn't it?
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  7753.  @Redf322  I do mind Starmer sitting on fences but I'm not going to beatify anyone, not even Corbyn.
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  7754.  @lizshephard2964  I think a weak point of Jeremy's is naivety. He seems to believe everyone is as nice as he is, and open to reasonable persuasion or compromise which makes him a nice man and an honourable politician but politics is a dirty game and someone like Starmer who knows it, knows how to play dirty, and I don't know how P.M Corbyn would have handled Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
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  7755. Is that a Glazer in the thumbnail? He looks like a vampire. How apt.
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  7756. Ridley Scott produced diddly squat?
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  7757. *breathe
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  7758. Starmer will keep her as his deputy because he knows he doesn't resonate with the working class like Angela does.
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  7759.  @annan.3448  You'll have to read the book and so will I (have to re-read it) because I can no longer remember.
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  7760.  @jogriffiths5766  Probably is. I can't remember. It's not a blockbuster or popular fiction.
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  7761. *well known
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  7762.  @ozzie2612  Eh?
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  7763. Has your brain been washed?
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  7764.  @andrewrobinson2565  Yes, but not for the Conservatives.
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  7765.  @Essemm52  They would have done more earlier than this government did, but you get what you vote for.
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  7766. Everyone the guy injured is a victim of his violence.
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  7767.  @gregp3210  Some infected people will be ill and some will not get symptoms. Those who may not get symptoms would be mostly in the under 30 age group, but they can still spread it to those who may suffer more.
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  7768.  Andrew C  The government was told that PHE when it was set up would not be able to deal with events such as pandemics mainly because that re-organisation involved reductions in geographic links to local areas who are used to dealing with local public health issues and know their areas. In the past local councils had a bigger role in this. It does seem like you'd want to use a database but then who are the people employed to tracks and trace and are they skilled and trained enough in using the appropriate technical means to do it? Serco subcontracted such work to 29 organisations who are probably operating from call centre type hubs, with staff paid at minimum levels, and little knowlege of lcoal areas and communication resources in those areas. There was supposed to be an app issued to help with it, but the government's first app (created by the private sector) didn't work and had to be withdrawn if I remember correctly. The government was warned year after year in recent years of the need to prepare for a pandemic, but they did nothing. Funding and stocks of equipment were cut as part of the austerity programme. A private sector guy was brought in to run the part of the NHS that stores equipment and one of the first actions he took was to run the stock down and sell some of it off.
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  7769.  Andrew C  I've just looked up the explanation for the missing tests. It said that some test results exceeded the maximum file size that would be accepted by the system so they could not input those results. That sounds like a design fault in the software. PHE say it has been fixed now. PHE won't have been the software designers. That will undoubtedly be a private company. The main errors that lead to this kind of mistake is not sufficiently consulting the end users (or customers) before designing the software. Designers often consult at too high a level, with people who don't know the nitty gritty of the work. I've seen that happen a number of times in the public sector.
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  7770.  Andrew C  P.S Strangely enough competent skilled people are not queueing up to take minimum wage jobs. They are often forced to, but they tend to aim for something better ideally. I used to work in the civil service. They cut numbers and stopped recruiting so they'd take agency staff instead. However a senior person complained to me (in a chat, not formally) that he could not get P.A.s from Agencies that would stay or that could do the work. They were perfectly well qualified and experienced as P.As but if they'd never worked in the public sector before they often could not cope because the job depended not just on their skills but on knowing how the sector worked, what the issues were, what the procedures were who to consult, how to consult them, who to engage with etc etc. You really had to know something about the set up and the history. Also P.As could usually get more pay working in the private sector.
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  7771.  Andrew C  I don't know where you get the spreadsheet info from. Here's where I got the explanation of the problem https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/covid-19-tests-positive-missing-how-testing-uk-cases-meaning-explained-677293 Maybe they used spreadheets pro tem until they could enter the data into the system again. I don't know as I don't know your source. Specialists are always used for computer problems. They don't let old buffers loose on them, but an awareness and understanding of computer systems at the higher levels of organisations is certainly useful otherwise the specialists can pull the wool over an organisation's eyes to hide their own mistakes.
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  7772.  Andrew C  I think you misunderstood me. It's not a specialist job to enter the data but it is a specialist job to fix software problems. I can't say more as I didn't hear the radio 4 discussion or know who was in the discussion but I've a feeling you've got the wrong end of the stick about the cause of this, not meaning to be rude. I'll have to look into it more. Where did you get 'the wrong tool for the job' info from?
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  7773.  Andrew C  Here you are. I've found a source that agrees with you. Seems you are right. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54423988 The government has announced its intention to abolish PHE and replace it with something else.
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  7774.  @gregp3210  I had my cancer surgery delayed for 3 months because of Covid. I really feel for anyone who experiences delays in treatment for serious conditions. It's up to the government to give the NHS the funding it needs to catch up, though extra staff cannot be created overnight. I think the NHS is prioritising the most serious cases. In my case 10 NHS Trusts contracted with a private hospital to use their premises to keep non-Covid urgent cases away from Covid ones. Here's another problem that will cause setbacks though it's not Covid related https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54435226
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  7775. Speak for yourself. Don't give instructions to others.
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  7776.  @Confessionofteenagenuns  No I'm not locked into partisan thinking. I accept what you say and Labour made mistakes but I was answering a comment that said Labour abandoned the working class so I was listing evidence to show they did do things to benefit the working class. As for privatising the NHS. Yes Labour agreed short term contracts with private health sector to quickly reduce waiting lists on operations such as cataracts and hip replacements but it was the Coalition government (Tories and Lib Dems) who introduced routine privatisation of the NHS through the Health and Social Care Act 2012 which required the NHS to invite the private health sector to bid for any health contract going. The private health sector only wanted to cherry pick profitable areas of NHS services though. The unprofitable parts were left to the NHS. I was born in 1954 to a working class family and I've worked in the health sector and seen all the changes.
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  7777. Aren't the new variants (so far) generally less dangerous than the old variants? The first variants were much more deadly, so vaccines were important then, weren't they?
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  7778. A nation can't be cucked, only a person can.
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  7779.  @subutaynoyan5372  *whoever. Who wins? Proving who was right?
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  7780. No, she is manipulative and is putting on an act here. She is working to get rid of the Duchess and Duke of Gloucester as the Duke has control over the King. Here she is setting them up for a fall later on, by exposing them as a threat to the crown.
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  7781.  @mielerodriguez5678  The Assad regime created a civil war by arresting and torturing its own people and it did drop chemical weapons too during that war.
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  7782. @Truth seeker. I will listen to the JFK speech but this is the NHS for god's sake. Practically everyone in the UK trusts it.
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  7783. @Truth seeker. Yes that was a fake but you have to learn to distinguish truth from fake and not think everything is fake because you can't tell the difference and just have a massive level of distrust.
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  7784. @Truth seeker. I watched it and it seems to me he was advocating open democracies and he was against secrecy and cover ups. He was asking the news media to inform the public and tell them the truth. Clearly he thought there was a network of people who would try to suppress the truth and ensure the press didn't cover the truth. I think this probably includes telling lies. I think in the USA this would be the major corporations who have so much power and influence in politics, particularly the industrial military complex which is always pushing for foreign wars. So that's my interpretation. Just to confirm this is the video I watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHCPj7VDX6o Eisenhower also issued a warning speech which I'm just about to listen to.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyBNmecVtdU&t=56s
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  7785. @Truth seeker. Interesting that Eisenhower was warning against the political influence of the military industrial complex. It seems he was fearful that its powerful influence and hawkish views might propel the world into another war.
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  7786. @Truth seeker. I hadn't heard of the Bilderberg group. I've looked them up and it seems their aim is world peace with the US and Europe joining in working for free capitalist societies. However I think there's too much economic competition between capitalist countries for any joint enterprise to work. I don't think Kennedy was particularly referring to them. I think it was the military industrial complex. My view on Kennedy's death, and this is my best guess, I'm not asserting it as the 'truth', is that Lyndon Johnson arranged the assassination. I found out afterwards that Jackie Kennedy believed that too. The area of the assassination and cover up was within Johnson's sphere of influence and it had to be someone that high up to arrange the kind of cover up that happened. Motive: Johnson differed politically from Kennedy. He was ambitious and the Kennedy brothers often used to humiliate him. He was probably also corrupt and in the pay of the Mafia or some such group and he feared that would be exposed. He would probably have been a dead man himself if that was exposed as the Mafia would have had to get rid of him. That's my theory anyway. Wasn't Kennedy proposing some anti- corruption drive? I believe he was.
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  7787. @Truth seeker. The military industrial complex can only make profit and grow if people buy and use their arms, so it's in their interests to have wars.
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  7788. Aren't your reviews just a load of spoilers?
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  7789.  @GonzoTehGreat  There was 'auditing' in 2017 when a mock pandemic exercise was done and the report on that advised the government that they needed to stock up on pandemic equipment. They ignored that. Then they created a central company for supplies in 2018 with the remit to streamline (.i.e. cut the service, personnel and supplies). In 2019 the government was warned again about the inadequacy of pandemic supplies and still did nothing. You say it's the 'norm' but it wasn't the norm in Germany which had sufficient supplies, even manufactured them in Germany. Germany has had far fewer deaths and a more successful reduction in cases to the point where they are now safely starting to come out of lockdown. We may be about to ease lockdown, but it may not be safe as we are not past the peak yet.
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  7790.  @GonzoTehGreat  Someone higher than warehouse operatives would have sanctioned covering over expiry dates. There is video evidence of the Secretary of State helping to move those supplies. Hard to imagine that he didn't know that they were date expired.
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  7791.  @GonzoTehGreat  Sounds like a shifty excuse to me, if they won'r say what the tests are. They certainly cut all the supplies staff so I suppose other procedures suffered as a result - not enough staff to do them effectively.
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  7792.  @Essemm52  Technically yes as they work for the NHS, but when the government set up the central supplies company for the NHS in 2018, they brought in a lot of people from the Private sector to run it, so they are not from the NHS. The top man was from France.
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  7793. He thinks the wealth we gained from exploiting countries in the British Empire is the same as wealth to be gained from trading with them. He thinks we'd get the same amount of wealth from trade as from exploitation. He doesn't think at all. His brain is full of Tory tabloid propaganda and is just a collection of prejudices.
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  7794.  @philchadwick8942  Agreed and he would pardon himself if he could but pardoning is an admission of guilt.
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  7795.  @tomasinq3161  I will wait and see. After he's called them losers and blocked their payrise, I guess they are a bunch of forgiving saints.
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  7796.  @yobiwolrd07  * to control not 'to controlled'. The infinitive form does not include the past participle.
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  7797. @Grunt Bred You believe Trump wants to pay $2000? If he did he could have made that clear in time for the bill not to be blocked. He never did or said any such thing to Mitch McConnell when he was blocking an aid bill. He's just causing chaos out of spite, and playing you again. The Democrats are calling his bluff saying o.k let's pay the $2000 you want. Watch who blocks that.
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  7798.  @yobiwolrd07  *It's 'give it a rest'.
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  7799.  @tomasinq3161  That's what those close to him at the time said he called them.
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  7800. Trump is a disgrace. It's a relief not to be faced with his daily, poisonous, lying, verbal diarrhoea. Here a woman with a plastic face seems to think that Trump tells the truth. This shows the awful effects of having let him splurge lies on a daily basis (not the plastic face of course).
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  7801. I think the lawyer was looking for a yes answer to confirm the text was sent to Elton John. Johnny Depp didn't confirm that, but went on a ramble. I don't think he understood what the point of the question was or why the lawyer was asking it so he avoided giving a yes/no answer.
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  7802. Oblivious to , not oblivious as to. There's something horribly gleeful about this video.
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  7803. Brexit, corruption and all round uselessness.
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  7804. His voice probably annoys people because it indicates he comes from a privileged background, never a good attribute when telling others less fortunate than he how they should live their lives and how society should be run. His absolute certainty is annoying. No self doubt, no humility when he has at least once in his life completely changed his views. He was once a socialist. What he overlooks when he dismisses 'rehabilitation' is that many prisoners are illiterate and can change their lives by getting an education. He doesn't seem to know the meaning of the concept. He reminds me of a hamster.
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  7805.  @louis-philippearnhem6959  Honest, at least.
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  7806. It's not true that we've not seen an unassailable majority before in recent history. Boris Johnson got an 80 seat majority in 2019 but the Tories have blown that. What worries me is that if Labour don't deliver the country may swing strongly to the right at the next election or maybe the one after that. Labour don't have much money to play with either.
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  7807. Cummings said he resigned because he and Boris disagreed on Covid strategy but his main beef was that Johnson refused to sack Hancock who was apparently causing disasters and not telling the truth. It was Hancock who told Boris and Cummings that he had enough PPE when they didn't and Hancock who assured them that elderly people being discharged from Hospitals to care homes would be tested for Covid first. That was not true. He also said care homes would be 'shielded' and that was not true.
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  7808.  @taradrolma2774  How can he be so callous and pretend he's a great guy at the same time? He really has no problem lying which is why he's so good at it.
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  7809. The former is more the British meaning and the latter is more the American meaning.
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  7810. It was not from England originally. Do some research.
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  7811. Sue then them then if you think it's fake! He's obviously a genuine doctor judging from his level of knowledge and experience and his talking from the heart. Why are you so keen to suggest he's an actor? What motives have you got for that?
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  7812.  Lone Wolf  I've been in hospitals lots and I've worked in that area too and my mother was a nurse. I can recognise someone who's a consultant and who knows what he's talking about. It's hard to 'fake' since even the most junior doctor has to have about 10 years study and training and consultants are the most senior level. Also is a main TV channel with a high reputation like Channel 4 were to fake something as serious as this, it would easily be found out and it would destroy their reputation. There's so much fake news being put into the media now mainly through social media that people begin to be disbelieve everything they see if it's not what they want to believe. That's sad because undoubtedly some people will die of ignorance now, because they will ignore official advice on how to stay safe. I think hard faced people call it 'natural selection'.
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  7813.  Lone Wolf  No. I don't have to be. You're not a wolf.
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  7814.  Lone Wolf  That's ridiculous. By your logic, nobody could have an opinion or exercise judgement unless the were qualified in the field in which they were making the judgement, but we have to make judgements every day based on the best evidence we can get. This will all be sorted out according to 'natural selection' anyway because a fair few of those who fail to recognise and act on the truth sand protect themselves properly will fail to survive. I would suggest Trump as one of those who failed to recognise the truth and now his nation is suffering.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NezEbDx4B9A&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=3&t=0s
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  7815. It is a sonnet. Sonnet 29 as a matter of fact.
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  7816.  @brucewilson1958  As the young folk say these days 'Don't beat yourself up about it'.
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  7817. They are also booing the donors going in. They are the ones in power.
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  7818. Fight Fight Fight? They must smell of sweat.
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  7819. 'Manufacturing superpowers' have lots of pollution. Maybe Trump forgets that or does not care.
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  7820. Matte says 'there's no such thing as biological sex', but if so, how did we all get here? In their dealings with Lindsay Shepherd clearly those interrogating her don't understand the concept of education and academic freedom and think it is about indoctrination, but indoctrination of which they approve. What poisonous individuals.
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  7821. Winter freeze. Too long supply chain. Fighting on two fronts.
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  7822. It's known from DNA tests that Neanderthals interbred with homo sapiens (or vice versa). They may have been bred out to some extent. Some populations today have small percentages of Neanderthal DNA. Eddie Izzard (comedian) is one person who has some Neanderthal DNA.
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  7823. *given. That's not going to happen though.
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  7824. I don't think parents in poor families are on nearly that amount.
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  7825.  @barryamorris  I know that but it's mainly going to benefit those who are not worst off. If you are earning 50k you can afford some tax.
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  7826.  @barryamorris  i know that. I think it is you who is missing my point.
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  7827.  @barryamorris  I think I have explained it many times but you don't seem to get it. The poor are never likely to earn £50,000 so it would benefit the middle class more than the poor.
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  7828.  @barryamorris  Yes but it won't benefit anyone earning less than 12K.
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  7829.  @barryamorris  I know but it does not benefit the poorest who earn under 12k.
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  7830.  @barryamorris  They could do if they are a part timer (because of caring responsibilities), or on zero hours contracts or on benefits and earning less than the £2,500 limit.
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  7831.  @rolandrimann8788  Glad you don't live in London too. TfL has debt which does not make it a cash cow. This was from a news article in 2019. 'Efforts to reduce the level of dust include new signalling on the Northern and Jubilee lines, which reduce the need to break defensively. TfL has also introduced new techniques to replace tracks, swapping jackhammers for “concrete breaking” that creates less dust. The inquiry will look into whether increased tunnel ventilation using fans could reduce airborne particulates, and whether barrier doors could could lower the level of pollutants, as was shown in two studies on the Barcelona metro. An electrostatic precipitator could also be deployed, using electrical forces to collect particles.
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  7832.  @rolandrimann8788  I don't know. I'm not the scientific expert am I? Don't shoot the messenger.
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  7833. Still swallowing the bullshit?
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  7834.  @flogette  Oh dear!
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  7835. His name reminds me of the Scottish saying 'it's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht'
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  7836.  @geraldlindenberg1000  I understand that British involvement has been written out of German history and it's hard to find the names of any initial drafters on the internet now.
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  7837.  @rossleeson8626  It was called 'Basic Law' wasn't it? If I'm wrong about it, I blame my husband who is the one that told me. P.S. Perhaps he was muddled and thinking about this instead https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/must_see/52530728/ve-day-our-dad-wrote-the-peace-document
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  7838.  @boulognedominique1364  I believe now it was some fudge to get agreement at the time, with the idea of a formal constitution to follow (which never happened).
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  7839.  @Gaius__  O.K. I'm sure you know more than me about it, but considering that it hasn't got a constitution and is still technically at war with the US, Germany seems to get on pretty well these days.
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  7840. Why does he need an investigation by someone else to tell him what he did?
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  7841.  @Alternate1234ify  The Queen has no power now. She's a constitutional monarch which means abiding by the constitution and she is subject to the law. The Supreme Court is also part of the UK's constitution and in its unanimous verdict (of 11 judges) it is upholding the constitution because Parliament is supreme in a Parliamentary democracy and no one, not even Bo Jo, is allowed to shut down Parliament for an extended period for no good reason.
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  7842. Mr Shickelgruber (any relation to Hitler?) your comment shows a profound ignorance of the constitution of the UK's Parliamentary democracy and the Supreme Court's role in upholding the Constitution. Not even Bo Jo is above the law, nor can he ignore the constitution. The fact that you don't like the outcome doesn't mean we are like East Germany.
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  7843.  @Alternate1234ify  Another misunderstanding by you. The Queen follows the advice of her Prime Minister and the court never criticises what the Queen does, only the advice given to her by her Prime Minister which it ruled 'unlawful'. The correct following of the constitution is ultimately decided in the Supreme Court (similar to in the USA). The P.M made several mistakes 1) He wouldn't submit a signed statement swearing that the evidence submitted was true 2) He prorogued Parliament for 5 weeks, ostensibly to prepare for the Queen's speech but everyone knows it only takes 4 to 6 working days to prepare a Queen's speech so clearly he used that as an excuse to shut down Parliament for most of the period before the next Brexit date`so that he'd have no opposition. Parliament is paramount in a Parliamentary democracy. No one has the right to shut it down in the way he did and for as long as he did without good excuse. The court considered he had not demonstrated a good excuse for it under the constitution.
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  7844.  @Alternate1234ify  I didn't miss the Cameron admission but she didn't exactly refuse. She hinted on his behalf but to be honest it was probably one of the few times she was expressing her own emotions too as she is half Scottish and spends her Summer holidays there and she would have been very upset to lose Scotland from the UK. I don't remember John Major's suspension. Perhaps no-one contested it at he time. I'm not sure anyone would have contested it now except that Gina Miller was wealthy enough to. Johnson's 'excuse' for a 5 week prorogation was that it was needed to prepare for a Queen's speech but everyone knows a Queen's speech takes only 4 to 6 days to prepare. If the Supreme Court hadn't made a ruling there would be nothing to stop longer or more frequent prorogations or even permanent ones. Boris tested the boundaries and found there were some. Also Boris wasn't prepared to sign and submit a statement certifying that the evidence his government submitted was all true. Big mistake. That rang alarm bells with the Court from the start.
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  7845.  @sisulart  I will.
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  7846.  @fletchr1638  No they expect to have vaccinated all who accept it in all adult age groups by May probably all second doses by September at the latest.
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  7847. The clown is popular and populist. If the party doesn't vote him out before the last 2, the party members will elect him. What a disaster.
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  7848. There are plenty of nice places. They're just not affordable for the majority.
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  7849.  @yorkshirelass8786  He is untested with no track record in office. How can you be sure? He was wrong about Brexit. It's easy to criticise, much harder to fix things in a way that's fair.
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  7850.  @yorkshirelass8786  What were the tangible benefits of Brexit then? No one can say. The majority of the public think it was a mistake. Even Farage has said it was a mistake and he encouraged people to vote for it. He's a shyster.
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  7851.  @yorkshirelass8786  What benefits? Lower standards, lower pay, fewer worker rights, smaller welfare state, more damage to the home production sector including agriculture, doing the USA's bidding, more opportunity for the wealthy to become even more wealthy and avoid even more tax? Those aren't benefits to my mind only to Farage's. No I don't get bored about commenting on a problem that still exists and damages people's living standards because people are still dealing with the consequences. If only it were all unicorns as the Brexiteers suggested I'd have nothing to complain about.
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  7852.  @yorkshirelass8786  Nigel's not the one for governance. He doesn't believe in such regulation. He knows how to oppose, to criticise but not how to create, to improve. He can oppose all right but not to any real purpose.
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  7853. The latter
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  7854. Those people queuing for masks were not keeping a 2 metre distance between them.
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  7855. Boris: Starmer's failed to listen to my lies, Mr Speaker. Blah blah blah, deflect, deflect deflect.
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  7856.  @gollumei  In that heat. He was going around a headland but I don't think that was the shortest way to their accommodation having seen a map.
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  7857.  @LindaOvenstone-hg3gl  He wasn't that close to the bar restaurant. He was a little way up in the hills above it and presumably locals and other tourists would not be going up there in the heat but staying near the beach area.
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  7858. That's telling them .....to ignore you.
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  7859.  @paulmatley8818  The Tories don't give a damn about people who don't vote. It's water off a ducks back to them. I am struggling with how your comment is linked to a name I used years ago and don't use now since Youtube made me change it.
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  7860.  @paulrogers2711  No I'm not. just google images of Williamson Square in Liverpool. Make sure you see all sides of the square.
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  7861. What's your beef? No relation to Edwina Currie are you?
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  7862. If Russia reduces the gas supply to Europe, unless it's selling it elsewhere, it is reducing its own revenue which it uses to fund its war in Europe.
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  7863. Her brain could not take any more, and switched off.
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  7864. Remove its citizenship and deport it.
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  7865.  @klownking4835  You talk as if women are possessions. If you are talking about equals then the men's views are not the only ones to take into account,
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  7866.  @AppleGoodman  LGTV? Which TV station is that?
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  7867.  @klownking4835  I'm not telling them how to live. I'm just expressing an opinion. They are telling their women how to live though aren't they?. It's the women's country as much as the men's.
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  7868. If so, it makes a change from the BBC helping the Tories. The BBC Chairman and Managing Director are Tories and there's an additional Tory advocate on the Board of the BBC. Isn't this just a case of right-wing whinging when they can't have their cake and eat it?
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  7869. Unable to act as a community to save the community, because for them it's all about 'individual freedom'. If only they could shoot the virus, that would truly make their day.
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  7870. Which type of English would that be?
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  7871.  @CJ4YRD  Cultures always change over time and always have. Britain has been highly influenced, historically, by the cultures that traded with or or conquered it or that it conquered. If a culture is good and strong people will be influenced by it. If it is not, if it is exclusive and intolerant, people will reject it.
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  7872.  @CJ4YRD  Corbyn is more English than Bojo.
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  7873.  @CJ4YRD  Like the British Empire did for instance?
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  7874.  @CJ4YRD  So are you including black British in the term British, or is it your code word for white British only?
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  7875. Oh dear, don't fall for that Reform BS. There's hardly a handful of brain cells between them. The just spew all the prejudices that trigger people.
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  7876.  @klausshwab7490  The term refusenik was not just used for Jews. It also has the meaning of 'a person who refuses to follow orders or obey the law, especially as a protest.' In times of crisis freedom may be restricted by governments. It was in WW2 in terms of conscription.
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  7877.  @klausshwab7490  I'm not saying it's not that, but it has also come to have a second meaning.
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  7878. He was excited not he was exciting.
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  7879. It's called a General Election although people vote constituency by constituency. Local elections are elections for local councillors and don't happen at the same time
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  7880. Hardly a smile. That looks more like a rictus grin.
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  7881. Could he be penalised for contempt of court?
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  7882. Or working in the building industries or the hospitality industries or the Care industries or in the NHS or as lorry drivers. We are short of all of those.
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  7883.  @stequality  Do you know that two thirds of those '20 million' benefit claimants' are pensioners? (Even when people have paid contributions throughout their working lives for their pensions, pensions are still described as 'benefits' in government forms.) About 1.5 million of those pensioners claim pension credit. The rest paid full contributions or aren't claiming credit. As for the remaining 7 million (of the 20 million), about 4 million these are disabled people or their carers. As for the rest....Universal Credit is paid to 2.3 million. Almost half the people claiming Universal Credit have a job or jobs but their earnings are so low that they can claim Universal Credit. Income Support is claimed by 372k and jobseekers allowance by 183k.
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  7884.  @stequality  I've noticed traffic has been a lot better recently but that might also be to do with Covid and more people working at home.
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  7885.  @stequality  Well we have the congestion charge and some empty supermarket shelves and more people working from home. That may explain it.
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  7886.  @stequality  Well Brexit and Covid are quite recent. Some towns and cities have a problem which is not to do with those factors. I have relatives in Hereford and the traffic there, over many years, has varied from pretty bad to almost impossible. I'm not sure why. Maybe old towns weren't designed for high traffic levels and don't have the scope to improve the road design.
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  7887. The Labour MP did not say what was in the title. The title is shockingly ungrammatical for a journalist.
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  7888. We are stuck in an economic impasse now. The only way to produce growth with no pain for voters is to levy higher tax on the corporate sector that can afford to pay and to invest that money for growth. Also to reverse Brexit so we can export again more easily. These are not Tory policies as they don't fit with Tory ideology.
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  7889. He needs the money but he's not learnt that if you are in a hole you should stop digging.
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  7890.  @jazzyjane611  The contract they sign with government is to provide NHS services for a price. The government does not interfere with their medical judgement on patients although they may share 'best practice' guidance and I suppose they are paid for reaching certain vaccination targets so there is an incentive there, but people are free to reject vaccinations. There are also different types of vaccinations with Covid ones being a different type to the type of vaccs that children receive. I've had every vaccine going from childhood onwards with no ill effects so far. I don't think the government or doctors deliberately intend to do harm. In fact the doctors' motto is 'first do no harm'. I think it's more that the drug companies are not always as open as they should be about the level of possible side effects and numbers affected. There is no magic solution but having good information allows people to assess risks and make informed choices.
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  7891. These words seem so expressive.
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  7892.  @luigidavola7873  * Princess Margaret, not prince's Margaret.
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  7893.  @5adelmundomheka253  It was all worth watching but more interesting if you lived through that history I think.
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  7894. He says the new variant appearing in the South of England has appeared in other countries. So did it arrive in Britain because they still aren't strict enough about control and testing at airports?
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  7895. In what sense are they patriots? Patriots according to what definition?
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  7896. *should have *Gulf War
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  7897. He's not been in office that long and the causes of the Grenfell Tower disaster go back to the gradual loosening of the building regulations by governments, the greed and corruption of firms cladding these buildings, the local Tory council's indifference and neglect and the Tory mentality that thought it a great idea to reduce all the local health and safety resources that used to protect people from jerry building. It's nothing to do with the Mayor. He's just there to show sympathy and good will.
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  7898. He has no responsibility for years of Tory neglect. He's taking responsibility for doing something now.
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  7899. We will survive, sure, but maybe we'll have to survive without toilet roll for a few weeks. There's not much you can substitute for that.
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  7900. Let's face it if he didn't lie through his teeth he'd be for the chop by the Saudi owners.
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  7901. This is more than about breaking distancing rules. It's also about conflict of interest as she's a non-Executive director of his department whose role is to give an 'independent' view and advice on the performance of his department. As for her brother's contracts, are these some of the contracts won without competition that are legally required to be published, so that the taxpaying public can see whether they are getting value for money, but which have not been published as required?
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  7902. Outlets are called sockets in the UK.
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  7903. *wouldn't have or wouldn't've not wouldn't of
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  7904. You do now because I've just said it. Of is a preposition and not part of a verb. It's "wouldn't have" or shortened to "wouldn't've". It sounds like "wouldn't of" when you say it, but it's "not wouldn't of", and not spelt that way. So many people seem not to know about constructing verb tenses these days. I don't know what schools are teaching.
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  7905. It's 'all of a sudden'
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  7906. There should not be targets and people affected should write direct to Ministers and the P.M. Don't let them ignore the problem. Don't let them off the hook. Create a letter storm. They have a requirement to reply.
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  7907. You need to check out recent voter surveys. It doesn't say much for you if you are prepared to support a lying, useless and criminal politician as P.M.
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  7908. I wonder if all people in the Roman empire spoke Latin the same way - every language has its slang version. Italian sounds more emotional than Latin. Latin sounds more formal and it is a beautifully concise language - not so many words needed because endings of words etc do some of the linguistic donkey work. Something useful I learnt about Latin more recently is that the order of words in a sentence don't matter in terms of meaning. The meaning is unchanged by a change in word order. I hope I've understood that correctly.
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  7909. At the back of their minds I imagine most US parents must suffer fear of such events, and yet nothing changes as the gun lobby seems to have a stranglehold on Congress and The Senate. The second amendment gives people the right to bear arms but it doesn't specify that that means automatic weapons or that there should be no checks on people before gaining access to guns.
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  7910. Because capitalist countries like to US turn against them. If you listened the video says the US does not allow the drugs to be exported to Venezuela.
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  7911. ReeseL4D. The cheapest food in countries where people don't grow or make it themselves (processed food) is full of fat, sugar and salt and large corporations push large portions at people as a way of selling as much as possible. Sugar is addictive and salt brings out flavour so it's easy for people to eat too much. Also, they don't work it off as many US citizens don't get enough exercise. They work long hours in static situations and go everywhere in their cars. It's the American dream, which can turn into a nightmare, especially when healthcare may be unaffordable for many.
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  7912. Monarchist 18. The "Iron Lady " was shallow and trite in her thinking. It's not "someone else's money". It's mine and many people like me. If we vote for a government that offers welfare, and that government is popular enough to be elected, and we pay taxes, that's our decision. It's not using "other people's money". If welfare is non existent in Venezuela, to me that is not a socialist country or maybe it suffers too much from corruption. They should have used their oil revenue better, but the USA is not helping if it's banned the sale of medical drugs to Venezuela, as stated in the video.
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  7913. Johnny Chang. Yep. They were incompetent. It doesn't prove that socialism doesn't work. It just proves that this government didn't work. How many capitalist governments are incompetent or corrupt? Quite a few.
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  7914. His defence then is that he's such a dumbo, he didn't realise a 'bring a bottle' invitation did not denote a work meeting or was against the rules that he made and applied to everyone else, even though members of the public were being arrested and fines for breaking those same rules, and he was left in the dark about the nature of the meeting even though he has the most important job in government. It won't wash.
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  7915. There may be other reasons for some of this behaviour that are not to do with disliking someone. Feeling nervous or anxious around them for instance because you are in some way accountable to them in a work situation or in terms of family relationships, and fear you will be judged wanting.
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  7916. * that can be cited (no 'to' needed after 'cited')
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  7917.  @jcw9539  Something to bear in mind before voting foolishly.
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  7918.  membershipofbus  Indeed she can, but who she likes tells us something about her true beliefs.
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  7919.  membershipofbus  I don't hate her but having criticised me for doing so, you then tell me you hate me for liking Sadiq Khan. Where is your sense of logic?
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  7920.  membershipofbus  I travelled on those Routemasters. They were a vanity project of Johnson costing over a £1m for each bus and they were poorly designed and poor value for money. The windows didn't open and in the Summer people would roast. His shortening of bus routes was designed to reduce congestion in the centre of London although I wish he hadn't done it to the 4 or the 134. I'm glad there are 20mph speed limits. I used to worry about my child crossing a busy road when the cars were racing along, and the air has cleaned up since his clean air policies were introduced and my asthma has improved as a result. I like the fact that he provided free school meals for all primary school children and that he froze many transport fares and allowed 2 bus journeys for the price of one if they are both taken within an hour.
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  7921.  @Kaizan27  In hers more than mine. He's still around to potentially cause havoc if he gets elected again though.
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  7922.  @zeldaharris6876  Accepted.
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  7923.  @maximada2003  I saw an article saying she won't win because she's 'woke' on gender issues. The Tories are a prejudiced bunch on the whole.
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  7924.  @rohitballal5654  He probably owns much of it.
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  7925. The establishment is a word used by people to mean any group they disagree with. In fact Farage and Johnson are part of the real establishment. The wealthy who benefit from a hard Brexit. The average person will not benefit from a hard Brexit.
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  7926.  @philippayne4951  I can tell you've been listening to the spin rather than looking at any facts. We'll be down the plughole if we try leaving without a deal just on WTO terms. No country in the world trades just on WTO terms because in trading terms it's the 4th division. They all want deals with a big trading block which is the premier division which is where we are now. It's a bit of a myth that the EU controls us. There are some rules of membership but 99% of what the UK spends is determined by the UK government. So what happens if we go to no deal WTO terms? We have to then set a tariff for trading with the world and under WTO terms it has to be the same tariff for everyone we trade with in the same goods. If we set a tariff that will push prices up for UK consumers and we'll be worse off. If we set a zero tariff (possible under the rules) our farming and manufacturing won't be able to compete with cheap imports from countries where workers have no rights and are paid pennies an hour so our farming and manufacturing industries will be destroyed. Don't just take my word for it. Patrick Minford, an economist who is for a hard Brexit says the same about the future of British farming and manufacturing. It will affect other economic sectors also. Wealthy people like ex stockbroker Farage and Jacob Rees Mogg will be raking it in because WTO rules do not regulate financial systems and they will be even more free to squirrel away their profits to tax havens around the world. Also over 80% of our exports are services and 49% of those are to the EU. The day we hard Brexit, those services with lose their 'passport' rights to European EU countries, which is why businesses are talking about moving their headquarters to the Europe. The very people who want Brexit because they are suffering under the present government's austerity programme, will be stuffed even more under no deal Brexit. None of this was explained before the Referendum by a campaign that wasn't even talking about a no deal Brexit. As for getting trade deals, as a member of the EU, we have over 40 trade deals that will no longer apply the day we go out on no deal and after 3 years there are only has a handful lined up to replace them. Trade deals take years to negotiate because they are complex covering everything traded between countries. Trump is protectionist and the US is a larger economy than ours, and if we want a trade deal with the USA it will be very much on his terms, as he doesn't need to deal. His negotiators have already said they want access to NHS funding for their corporations as part of the deal and for us to take their farming products like chlorine washed chicken, hormone fed beef and contaminated baby food- practices currently banned by the EU. China and Russia are not our friends and in any case they don't allow countries to export freely to theirs. They are protectionist. Asian countries have each other to trade with nearby. The only thing India wants from us is more visas for people to come here. Other countries won't make up for the loss of the big trading area on our doorstep (the EU). The way out of our problems is to vote for a party that will do something about inequality in the UK and protect jobs and trade, and that's not the Tories or the Brexit party. Farage has stated he is for replacing the NHS with an insurance based market system. He is for taking restrictions off the sale of handguns and he has other right wing policies too. If we set a zero tariff, that would be zero for EU trade also, except as outsiders the EU would be placing a tariff on us (could be 40%). That would make us uncompetitive in trading with the EU. You can't just count the cost of trading with the EU in terms of our subscriptions. You have to count the benefits to the economy too and the health and welfare of people to get the whole picture. Here's the article about USA baby food. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/17/health/baby-foods-arsenic-lead-toxic-metals-wellness/index.html Moreover, the Tories will want to follow the US or Singapore model of economy where workers don't have such good terms or as many rights as in the EU. US workers haven't had a pay rise in real terms since the 1970s. Boris, in his leave agreement with the EU, has removed workers rights from the mandatory part of the agreement and placed them in the non mandatory part (the political statement) which means the government can drop them at any time.
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  7927.  @philippayne4951  Sorry I'd rather be part of Europe than a satellite of the USA. I don't trust any right wingers like Widdecombe and Farage. Farage is on record as saying he would do away with the NHS and have an insurance based system instead, and that he doesn't agree with restrictions on hand guns. I believe Trump would want to force a number of unsavoury things on the UK in return for any trade deal. If you are really a civil servant in Brussels you should be neutral and not campaigning for anyone.
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  7928.  @philippayne4951  You didn't read my evidence did you? You talk to me in platitudes and you lie. I don't talk to remain people. I look up the facts. Watch this about the NHS. It's what I knew anyway but the extent of it already is quite breath-taking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8YaE8ELfus
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  7929. The future's so scary with AI and if people's access to the truth is being overthrown in favour of lies and conspiracy theories.
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  7930. We musn't be complacent. These guys will still be plotting their next move behind the scenes. They won't have given up on the idea completely.
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  7931. World domination is within his reach now, he sees.
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  7932.  @gusleybighusley6062  Thanks.
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  7933. He didn't leave. He was ejected for voting Lib Dem in the Euro elections.
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  7934. I think his ex wife should support him more for the sake of the kids as they are both responsible for their welfare. Look at the state the lack of adequate universal credit has got him into. It sounds like he's going to get ill through stress. He really doesn't know which way to turn. I wish people would come together as a community. For instance getting together with others in the same situation to share and pool resources in terms of childcare and work and rent. Communal living might be a way to go as this government is uncaring. Everyone is left to sink or swim on their own.
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  7935. Trump is like a puppet that repeats the lines that people feed him without real understanding and people believe he is putting America first.
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  7936.  @leetodd7040  What store?
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  7937. 'The right steps at the right time' is now their constant mantra.
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  7938.  @christalmeth613  Even Putin couldn't do that much damage.
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  7939. The point of a Mayor in big cities is to co-ordinate across councils for the benefit of the city in cross city services. It was the Tories that pushed the notion of Mayors as they thought it would benefit them, only having to control one person in a city. Ha ha. The Tories' judgement is still poor.
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  7940. I can hear that a family member is deeply upset at this news, having a childhood under Trump.
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  7941. Other countries are also telling the UK to get lost when it comes to trade deals e.g. The USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada.
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  7942.  Matt T https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-8i0J3l4SA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm_O1Dg0VQ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcrpQZGmAJk
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  7943.  @Rialagma  Sadly you can't protect your economy without trade deals.
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  7944. Jonathan Smith - an exclusive homeland based on religion? Israel has just declared it's a Jewish state, so non-Jews can't be citizens it seems. Imagine if Britain declared itself a Christian state and non-Christians could not be citizens.
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  7945. Rupert Murdoch continually attacking Joe Biden.
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  7946. I think Starmer was clever in bringing a personal invitation to the UK for Trump from King Charles. Trump could hardly disrespect Starmer with that incentive dangling in front of him. Trump generally does not have respect for anyone that does not agree with him. He does not have respect for Zelensky. This was a disgraceful press meeting. Zelensky was used by Trump to try and make Trump look tough. Zelensky is Trump's scapegoat.
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  7947. People who eat good home cooked food certainly spot cheap products that are full of fat and sugar. It will take time to convert a whole culture away from good food to crap food and I hope they all continue to resist this corporate crap.
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  7948. John have you seen this video. It's rather alarming. What evidence do you have in relation to this, if any? Spike protein inside nucleus enhancing DNA damage? - COVID-19 mRNA vaccines update 18 - YouTube. P.S. It won't work as a link but search of the title will find it on youtube.
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  7949. I don't think this crowd could organise a piss up in a brewery.
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  7950. People who truly love Britain will never leave.
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  7951. Then they don't truly love it.
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  7952. What is your evidence for that statement?
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  7953. Why isn't Trump being impeached for this? He and Musk now have the power to blackmail any citizen. The level of corruption here is through the roof.
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  7954.  @char377  Thanks.
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  7955. If you do use local businesses, these days you often find they can be cheaper than buying online. Not everything can be bought locally but look to see what can. Anyway if you can walk there, the walk will do you good, or see if there's a bus. If local businesses all go to the wall and Amazon becomes the dominant go to 'shop', Amazon prices will rise once the competition's dead. Also local businesses pay taxes that support local services. Amazon does not. It pays expensive lawyers to enable it to avoid paying tax. Shopping in local businesses has the advantage of instant gratification. You can take home your goods immediately. Also you can see, feel and try on clothes before deciding whether to buy, so you don't have to send them back, or have to wait in for deliveries or collect deliveries from neighbours or sorting offices.
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  7956. Far right giving Russia an excuse to invade France? I didn't know that actor David Kelly, who plays the incompetent builder in Fawlty Towers, had resurrected as Eric Zemmour.
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  7957. I'd say that's probably the least of anyone's worries, except for the Afghans left behind, but much of the third world has received no vaccines as yet.
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  7958. I thought that cabal had now given up on the idea. Whatever they do now they can't save themselves in the face of their 14 year record of failure.
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  7959. Ozdave McGee It also proved that many voters are naive enough to believe lies, don't check facts, and don't understand economics or the economy of their own country.
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  7960. How can anyone betray Trump? Trump is the big betrayer.
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  7961.  King Brilliant  Because we don't accept this. Promises are already being broken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24du25osgRY
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  7962.  @briancarno8837  I agree that they are screwed because they are not being truthful with the public and their 'solutions' won't work and in some cases could possibly make things worse.
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  7963. This woman should've gone to specsavers. There's evidence his staff knew they were breaking the rules and needed to hide that from the public. If his staff knew, he must have known. Did he not understand his own rules?
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  7964.  @cousinmerl  I'm not an American so I can't vote. The future's up to you guys as long as Trump plays fair over the elections.
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  7965.  @cousinmerl  'Nope' means you disagree with what I said but then your comment agrees with what I said, or is it a case of our countries being divided by a common language? :-)
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  7966. So?
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  7967. Not if it means letting the Tories back into power. Priorities.
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  7968.  @KernowDamo Not as inept or dangerous as the current lot and public expectations will force him to do some good in office I believe.
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  7969.  @Aspartame69  Well, that's probably why they don't complain about it but reading in the papers, one of the staff there spent all night in the impossible task of trying to get a court decision overturned, on the orders of Priti Patel. When she arrived the next morning she shouted at him because she hadn't managed to get it overturned. Then he carried on working during the day until he collapsed and was taken to hospital. No amount of money is worth putting up with that sh*t. I also have known of someone who, trying to put right the mistake of a senior officer, which had serious operational implications, had a stroke and was still calling for his laptop in his hospital bed to carry on working. He died.
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  7970.  @jimbrown4386  Well I used to work for the civil service so I do know how they work.
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  7971.  @thomasm1964  Sweetikins. I know. I've worked in the civil service and the private sector. The civil service work is much more complex because you are not just producing widgets to make a profit and there is a lot more co-ordination and legal requirements needed. Jobs paid less are jobs less skilled and with less responsibility. That holds true in both sectors. You do need people to carry out the wishes of government though otherwise they'd just stay as that - wishes.
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  7972.  @thomasm1964  There wasn't going to be any sympathetic hearing anyway. I was being a bit sarcastic about the widgets. I know it's more than that.
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  7973. You know nothing Big Mac
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  7974.  @jimbrown4386  It's not my fault if your employer doesn't pay you an adequate pension. Pensions were always part of the public sector deal because the government thought it should act as a model employer so it could encourage other employers to do so and because we were told it was compensation for being paid less than our private sector equivalents.
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  7975.  @jimbrown4386  That's pure prejudice based on ignorance.
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  7976.  @lesliecowie4038  More respected because the Tories said that only frontline civil servants were worth anything? I've worked frontline too. I've done a lot of different jobs in my time - flexible skills.
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  7977.  @lesliecowie4038  It may surprise you to know that parts of the civil service are 'connected to people' and at one time I used to visit people in their homes and also visit hospitals. Besides which I did a fair number of jobs before I joined the civil service where I 'connected with people' as you put it.
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  7978.  @Penah793  Looks like he was recruited from the private (banking) sector. They always get paid more than career civil servants as an inducement to join and because the government always assumes they are worth more, but it doesn't always mean they have the right knowledge or skills. I read that he said to a parliamentary committee investigating the Windrush scandal, that he'd only been in post a year and didn't know about immigration systems, but you would expect someone of his rank to have mastered his areas of responsibility within and year and also to have been briefed properly for the meeting by more experienced staff.
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  7979.  Samara Aldeen  No I don't mean that. I mean there is racism and anti-foreign sentiment in white working class areas in some parts of the country and they see Boris's party as one that is anti-foreigner and anti-immigrant so it fits more with their beliefs. Labour would have done far more for the north of England and the working class than the Tories, if you read their respective election manifestos from the last election, but I think Brexit played its part too. Those who voted for Brexit (and Hartlepool was one of the most Brexit voting areas) switched their vote to the Tories. The Tories are seen as the most Brexit supporting party now that UKIP and the Brexit party have dropped out of the picture. Also people are under pressure and just want someone to blame and bash. As Hartlepool was a Labour voting area previously, any rebellion could only be away from Labour. There is also reverse snobbery with people assuming that anyone from the South or more educated is not like them and can't understand or resonate with them. Although they don't take that attitude with Boris. Seems he can charm the pants off them.
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  7980.  Samara Aldeen  You're full of prejudiced assumptions aren't you? I grew up in a working class family. I've lived in very poor areas of the country in the North, Midlands and the South. We were talking about why Hartlepool voters largely defected to the Tories. It is well known that people from African and Asian ethnicities largely vote Labour so they did not fit into the discussion about why people largely defected. There is a lot of racism around judging by the comments sections in social media, and the country is becoming more and more divided it seems. I made a comment to someone else about voting in 1945 and they mistakenly assumed I was referring to women voters because I'm a woman. I don't go down narrow channels of self interest like that but that's what people seem to expect now.
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  7981.  Samara Aldeen  Can you explain why the white working class largely voted for Brexit when there was never going to be any economic benefit from it? If you think there's an economic benefit, give me an example of any working class community that has benefited? It seems that many just voted in the hope of stopping immigration. I'm not saying that's necessarily racist in itself. There are complex issues behind it, but quite a bit of it did come out of racist sentiment. You could see that from comments made at the time. If you look at any video on this site featuring a black politician, it won't take you long to find racist comments in the comments section, and if it's a black woman there'll be plenty of unfavourable comments about their appearance also. Is Labour supposed to endorse that sort of thing to please people with views like that?
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  7982. @Stalin The things you mention are downsides but there are many more downsides to Brexit. Name any economic benefits to Brexit for the working class? There are lists of economic downsides that could be mentioned. The EU was often blamed by the UK government when it messed up itself and it was often invoked as a block on doing something which the government actually didn't want to do itself, but would have been able to. It was a convenient scapegoat. The EU didn't control us that much. 99% of UK spending was under UK control and over 95% of EU directives were either initiated or voted for by UK governments including Conservative governments. I'm not an uncritical fan of the EU and have no great enthusiasm for it, but it's not possible now to go back to the way we were before we joined the EU. The world global trade scene has changed and we have not negotiated a single contract with any country that has better terms than those we had with them as part of the EU, though the government likes to pretend that we have. It's just spin. The people at the bottom of society have seen their living conditions worsen not because of the EU but because of years of austerity and cuts by the Conservative government after the worldwide banking crisis of 2008. They've also used that period to privatise and cut public services they don't agree with on an ideological basis. I don't see it getting better because Boris has legislated to enable him to remove some of the minimal workers protections that the EU did impose.
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  7983. @Stalin P.S. It's not 'wokeness' or the Labour Party that are damaging people's standards of living and ever worsening working conditions and job prospects.
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  7984. @Stalin No I didn't ignore those things. I said there were downsides to the EU and it made a mess of its vaccine programme. Do you expect me to defend it on that? Migration has its upsides and downsides and a government could prepare for that and protect wage levels if it had the will to do so but it prefers to see wages drop as that's what it's business supporters what.
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  7985. @Stalin I don't ignore them. I weigh up the pros and cons of leaving and find the cons are much greater. You realise the Tory plan is to use the 'escape' from EU rules to screw down workers pay and conditions don't you? We'll become a less protected workforce like in Asia or the USA which is the model they admire. It's about making ever more money and allowing ever more tax evasion but not for workers. The screwing down of pay and conditions will be what provides greater profit for Boris and his chums. The greater profit will not be shared fairly with workers. In the US workers have not had a real terms pay increase since the 1970s. Don't be deceived. Boris is not the workers' friend.
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  7986. @Stalin The Labour party is providing opposition but voters have previously voted Boris an 80 seat majority which means the other combined parties can do nothing to prevent him doing what he wants, and today people have given him even more power. You won't hear about the Labour Party's challenges to Boris by reading Tory supporting papers, but the fact is you have a P.M who is not ashamed to lie or break the law and unless he has a conscience and chooses to resign, or his party kick him out , he will do what he likes. I don't understand your point about the EU and your non EU exports. Are you talking about when the UK was in the EU or since we've come out? There wasn't actually a UK 2000 years ago. There were just different local tribes and there was not the global capitalist market there is now, so it's not relevant to compare the situation now to the situation 2000 years ago or even 100 years ago. We no longer have an empire to exploit. We are a relatively small player in an international market of large trading blocs. As I've said, freedom of movement only brings problems if the government allows those problems to happen. With the extra tax it gets from immigrant workers, it could spend that to ensure there are no shortages of facilities for people. There are ways they could protect workers living standards if they have the will to do so by legislating to protect them. There was a demand from workers from abroad because there weren't enough to fill all the jobs here as the economy expanded. If there were no jobs they would not have come and they are not necessarily competing with the national traditional workforce. The heavy industry jobs that used to provide lots of work in the north have gone and nothing much has replaced them.
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  7987. @Stalin You don't seem to understand the difference between a representative and a delegate. A delegate has to convey the views of those who elected them. A representative does not, though they are expected to take those views into account, but ultimately do what they think is best for you. A representative does not just represent business but all voters in their constituency and the reason Labour was not opposed to lockdowns was because that's what the science said we needed to control the virus, and it has worked along with the vaccine programme. Would you rather we'd ended up like India, Brazil or the USA where their leaders didn't bother too much? If you had to pay tax for non EU exports while you were in the EU, was that to countries that don't have trade agreements with the EU? If so you would have been trading with them on WTO terms (as would any EU country) where tariffs apply but it would not be the EU imposing them, but the country you are exporting to, though maybe the EU collects them on that country's behalf. Without more detail it's hard to say. I'm not whining about the decision to leave the EU. It doesn't particularly affect me. I'm just explaining my viewpoint. The fishing thing was a disaster because of the government's ignorance about how the fishing industry operated and the rules applying to third countries but my comment would be too long if I went into that here.
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  7988. Maitlis is pronounced Maytlis.
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  7989. Surely the windows would be bullet proof too? This doesn't seem like realistic protocol at all. Help would arrive quicker and he would not leave the P.M. alone
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  7990. I think it's to keep other loonatics out of the top position in the land.
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  7991.  @jakerobbo4446  The election is over. Biden won. It's the vote count that decides, not the media.
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  7992.  @vinnymac5951  Have you been hiding away this past week? Biden has already got to 270.
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  7993.  @jakerobbo4446  No. Those points came from the counts in the states, overseen by officials of the states and some monitors. There isn't a mainstream media channel now, even the Trump supporting ones, that don't give those figures. Take your head out of the sand.
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  7994.  @vinnymac5951  I don't think the mainstream media channels, even the Trump supporting ones, would stick their necks out in posting those figures if they weren't sure, but o.k let's wait for the final certified figures. Trump did everything he could to undermine the vote, telling his supporters to vote twice, putting his crony in charge of the mail service where he switched off sorting machines to slow down the mail, and doesn't the Trump family own the voting machines too? If there are any dodgy votes, I don't think they'll be from the Biden side but let's wait and see.
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  7995.  @jakerobbo4446  I do research and I listen to a lot more than BBC and CNN. However I only saw about Trump ownership of voting machines on one source. I can't remember which, and I can't find it by googling so I'll accept that that claim is unsubstantiated. However, your claim that Soros and Pelosi own the machines is unsubstantiated too.
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  7996.  @rickknight3823  Cronyism is part of capitalism (and maybe part of human nature). Capitalism needs strict regulation in a democratic setting, to even try to combat cronyism.
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  7997.  @neilpye6089  * phonetically written speech. However correct pronunciation is not easy unless some effort has been made.
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  7998. I saw this interview. JRM didn't destroy Andrew Neil. JRM doesn't live in reality and denies it and diverts the debate from it. It's not just Italy that levied a windfall tax on energy companies, France did also, and Neil wasn't suggesting that Britain should model itself on the Italian economy. That's just JRM diverting the issue from the idea of a windfall tax, because there's no justification for not doing it when even the energy CEs are embarrassed and pointing out that they are awash with revenue and 'cash making machines' as Neil pointed out to JRM but which JRM ignored. Andrew Neil is not left wing either. He's not remotely lefty in real life but he knows the arguments to put to conservative politicians for a balanced or challenging interview and if they have valid reasons for their policies they should be able to answer such arguments without resorting to deceit and diversion, unless we want one viewpoint media as in Russia.
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  7999. *paid. Look up the benefit entitlements of refugees before making assumptions.
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  8000.  @jose-Maki  Just google what benefits migrants to the UK are entitled to. You will get fact check statements like this: 'Most non-EU nationals who are subject to immigration control are not allowed access to "public funds" (such as jobseekers' allowance or tax credits), although they can use public services like the NHS and education. EU citizens who are working have similar access to the benefits as UK citizens.'
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  8001. Won't Trump just pardon everyone?
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  8002. Unless I blinked and missed it, this the history in this video skipped right over any mention of Led Zeppelin I and Led Zeppelin III. Correction to your 'correction', Bonham's ashes were 'interred' not 'interned'. Internment is for potential terrorists. Re 'Over The Hills and Far Away'. Led Zeppelin were really only interested in producing albums, not singles for the singles charts, which would have restricted their range. Some tracks were issued as singles later under pressure to release some. 'Whole Lotta Love' is my favourite track though, and the first Zeppelin song I heard on the first Zeppelin album I bought and heard. There's some great music on 'The Lemon Song'. I wonder why it gets left off lists? This list seems more weighted towards the blues/rock end of their music. Some of the quieter slower ones are also excellent - but that's o.k. It's hard to choose only 10 in any case.
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  8003. Samuel Girvan. That's old news.
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  8004. I think he's probably very well read.
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  8005. the odd seagull. Odd here meaning occasional.
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  8006.  @johnmoore9862  I'm not a leave voter - maybe that's why. I'm quite worried about what's going to happen next year.
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  8007. She spouts her prejudices without first doing any research. That's lazy.
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  8008.  @iamthepotato4312  Farage and Johnson also like to be the centre of attention.
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  8009.  @philippayne4951  *dopey. Soubry is not dopey. She slaps Mogg down enough times and all MPs with a brain who are not in it for themselves or their backers, realise that a hard Brexit will be a disaster for the average person.
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  8010. *Swinson
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  8011.  @LW13r  Perhaps NJ think the 'Mail' is left wing!
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  8012.  @nishantintouch  What statement? That the Mail is under fire?
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  8013. Since Donald Trump managed to bankrupt himself more than once, he seems perfectly capable of bankrupting America, given time.
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  8014.  @heshamallam8829  Sky News Australia is just a biased mouthpiece for its owner, Rupert Murdoch.
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  8015.  @noahwilliams3718  I think the standard way that politicians avoid lying or telling the truth is by failing to answer the question, but I'm surprised at how easy going the guy was on Boris. Boris lies on an industrial scale not seen before in UK politics.
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  8016. The police police according to the law. It's not the police that are politicised, only Murray. Local communities have some say in policing priorities through police commissioners. Policing in the UK is by consent which is why they try to stay close to communities. The Tories were responsible for the reduction of 20,000 police posts since they came to power in 2010 forcing police to prioritise more ruthlessly and lower the priority of some crimes where evidence to catch perpetrators was not found (e.g. in burglary cases). What exactly is Murray complaining about in Leicester? If the problem was resolved without deaths, without many injuries and without significant damage to property that might otherwise have occurred, maybe the police strategy was correct. Does he believe in top down centralist control of the police? What a whiner. That's all he does now, whines according to his own prejudices. Perhaps he pines for the days when the police were seen to be there primarily to defend his class. He's a bit hypocritical too having a go at LGBT officers. Would he prefer that they were discriminated against instead? What a plonker. What a way to earn his living.
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  8017.  @BlackPrimeMinister  In my personal experience, men's health outcomes are often bad because they won't go and see a doctor unless they are desperate and they pay no attention to healthy lifestyles. The women I know do go to the doctor more but have often been ignored. My nephew's wife was being treated for depression. He did not believe that was a correct diagnosis. He refused to leave the hospital until she was scanned. It turned out she had brain tumours. One of my sisters was feeling really ill and was turned away from the doctors without diagnosis several times. She was only diagnosed when her husband said 'I think you have jaundice'. She told the doctor that and he tested her and confirmed it was jaundice. The same sister was in a road accident but was not X-rayed at hospital. She was complaining to her GP about pain for some time without effect. The GP eventually got fed up with her and sent her to hospital for an X-ray. There they saw that she had several broken ribs. The same sister had a growth on her hand. The doctor kept giving her cream and telling her to keep using it even though she said it wasn't working. Her daughter in law, a nurse, told her to get it checked out at a hospital. It turned out to be cancer. Luckily it was then successfully operated on. I've had cancer twice. Both times the doctor didn't think it was cancer but the first time at least I was sent for a test. The second time I was dismissed for a year and then had to push for a test. I do care about men's health, but the men I know don't seem to want to listen. They prefer to bury their heads in the sand rather than find out something is wrong. I think it's fear of things medical.
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  8018.  @BlackPrimeMinister  Our GP had to call in my husband for a check up because they hadn't seen him for years. He keeps getting sent invitations for free checks to identify lung or bowel cancer. He just ignores them. At least he does not play the victim like you are. Of course we care and there are services for men, but you can't tell people what to do. There is a lot less domestic violence against men which is why there are fewer shelters but there are probably are not enough for either sex. Men do complain about the disparity of funding for male cancer and there is no outcry about that from women. Gosh you really do feel sorry for yourself. Just go and get a check up if you are worried.
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  8019.  @BlackPrimeMinister  My husband has never heard that from my mouth because he does not 'play the victim'. Far from it, his lack of interest in his health almost amounts to self neglect but luckily he comes from a long lived family and is not overweight.
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  8020.  @BlackPrimeMinister  Not always, but historically there has been a tradition of dismissing their voices so some will inevitably go overboard as a reaction.
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  8021.  @ro9202  Who is accepting it as 'one of those things?' I certainly don't see men of any class as 'disposable'. My concern is when they don't look after themselves. I've met men who won't eat vegetables and a man with glaucoma who knew he was not supposed to have a lot of salt on his food and he heaped it on. My Dad died before pension age, when I was still young. He died from smoking (lung cancer) and the thought of that still upsets me to this day, but in those times the dangers of smoking were not known, or anyway not admitted by the tobacco companies.
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  8022.  @ro9202  My motivation wasn't to 'blame' men. I am just concerned for them to look after their health more. I do understand the pressures on people that can make them not look after themselves or unable to do so, and social pressures are often to blame but at the end of the day if a person doesn't look after themselves, can they be sure that anyone else will. Of course health services are there and should be there for men and women, but prevention is much better than medical intervention because operations can be risky and medicines can have side effects. Not all diseases can be prevented. I know that. Much ill health is a matter of bad luck. People can only do what they can.
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  8023.  @ro9202  I don't know why everything has to be turned into a women against men thing, or men against women.
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  8024.  @ro9202  I agree that the gender life expectancy gap should not be ignored nor should we be complacent about it. I also fear that life expectancy for both men and women is now on a downward trajectory because of deaths due to the pandemic and because waiting lists for hospitals are growing as a result of the pandemic.
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  8025. Have you looked up any facts? The only people to benefit from a hard Brexit will be the rich, the financial speculators and corporations. The average person will not benefit.
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  8026. What the heck is he rambling on about? I think his supporters are so brainwashed they would clap anything he said. He could say, 'I've arranged for you all to be executed on the way out' and they'd still clap.
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  8027.  @sharontodd2732  Are you blind? They've found loads and Trump is currently involved in court battles over his financial affairs. Would you like to see a video listing 30 of Trump's broken political promises? I can link it. I guess you won't want to see it. This is all before they get into the conspiracy side of things but practically all those who worked for him are spilling the beans on his involvement in the Jan 6 coup attempt. If this man gets into power again he will arrange things so he can't be removed, and he won't choose a running mate like Mike Pence again. He'll choose someone corrupt enough to overturn election results. You'd have a Putin type in the White House. Why do you think Trump most admires dictators as role models (Putin and Kim Jong Un)? It's because of their ability to dictate things with no opposition. Trump only cares about Trump, not the constitution or the American people. He knows the Presidency will insulate him from prosecution and he's a snake oil salesman, very glib and good on populism and communication. I don't know why people can't see it. Why do they have faith in such an obvious charlatan?
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  8028. When we were in the EU the rules were different.
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  8029.  @Jorge_Rodriguez83  Lol.
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  8030. I understand the Republicans try to take credit for the good impacts of Biden's policies.
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  8031. 'To do or die' That's a line from Tennyson's 'Charge of the Light Brigade' and we know what happened to them. He can't keep going with the existing arrangements, as he suggested without an agreement with the EU and he previously rejected their agreement and they aren't going to change it, they say. There's no time to negotiate a new one anyway even if they were willing to. If Boris just comes out without a deal, everything lapses on day 1. WTO terms would be disastrous.
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  8032. Any alternative would be better.
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  8033. Yes because there's be no one to do the dirty work for the Tories. Rees Mogg says civil servants must carry out lawful government policy, which is true but he completely ignores the fact that Rwanda policy has been judged unlawful even by the Minister responsible for it (Braverman). It seems it's easy to pull the wool over the eyes of GB news watchers judging by the comments on this video. The civil service code forbids civil servants from breaking the law.
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  8034.  @scepteredisle  The civil service code forbids civil servants from breaking the law and the Rwanda policy has been judged unlawful. Even the Minister responsible for it has admitted that (Braverman).
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  8035.  @Threemore650  People who are prepared to break the law contrary to the civil service code since the Rwanda policy is unlawful?
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  8036.  @Threemore650  What isn't true? I don't understand your last comment. The Home Secretary does not decide whether English natives should be allowed a home or not. What nonsense are you talking? I'm not a fan of Braveman but she was born in Harrow so she is English by nationality and she was elected by her constituents in Fareham. Do you understand anything about Britain or the British political system?
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  8037. Is it radical to want avoid breaking the law which is against the civil service code?
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  8038. I'm so glad I do.
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  8039. The Tories will be hoping for some payback from the wealthy beneficiaries in terms of contributions to the Tory Party.
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  8040.  @mitchelrowe6915  Yes his predictions weren't too good. He thought change would happen in highly evolved societies whereas it was backward and undemocratic societies (like Russia and China) that saw revolution and they continued as authoritarian and a lot of people died. What has worked better has been the regulation of capitalism and the inclusion of some socialist ideas like the welfare state and some nationalised industries in democratic advanced societies which have become social democracies rather than socialist societies, such as the Scandinavian countries which also regularly come top of the happiness index. To say that societies should be all one thing or another does not produce good results for people. Mixed economies in democracies are better.
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  8041. When liars lie to liars that's poetic justice.
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  8042.  @thesaltbaron2237  Well I'm a boomer that has never voted that way. Thanks very much. You seem to have fallen under the influence of the 'divide and rule' strategy of the Tories. We don't have democratic socialism, only some aspects of it that remain, and the Tories always try to undo those by cheaply selling off state assets paid for by taxpayers (such as utility companies and railways) and selling off the public housing stock. They are raiders of the public purse.
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  8043.  @thesaltbaron2237  Sad for you. The boomers I know vote Labour.
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  8044.  @thesaltbaron2237  Some actively campaign for Labour, visiting houses and handing out leaflets and posters. They are also members of the Labour Party. One was a Labour councillor.
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  8045. It's a pity the Labour Party only get their chance when the Tories have made a mess of things.
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  8046.  @imemine6494  What's disgusting about them, compared with the Tories?
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  8047. I understand but we have to get the Tories out, we just have to or they'll demolish everyone's rights. Voting Labour is the lesser of 2 evils.
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  8048.  @oneoflokis  Top priority is get the Tories out though, otherwise 5 more years of misery and 5 more years for them to undo democratic safeguards to make it even more difficult to oppose them or vote them out after that.
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  8049.  @oneoflokis  It can be fixed later.
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  8050.  @johnmurphy9550  You think JRM would do a job on behalf of the people? Ha ha ha. You would also vote for the Reform Party which is perhaps even dimmer and lacking knowledge more than JRM and that's saying something? JRM is only concerned about the welfare of a rich cohort that includes himself and apart from gathering money he knows little about how things work including the economy. Those that know as little as he and who are impressed by his 'act' and 'nice manners' will no doubt vote for him. The Reform Party does not know how Brexit works.
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  8051.  @wayneb8596  Down to earth! Which Earth would that be? He seems to be living on a different planet from the rest of us.
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  8052.  @wayneb8596  He wants to reverse all UK laws which are currently British laws at a stroke. That would remove quite a few workers rights including the right to holidays and sick pay and maximum weekly hours. You're o.k with being a slave to the wealthy then?
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  8053.  @wayneb8596  O.K. I guess you are a fan. I hope your loyalty is rewarded by something concrete - some benefit you can point to.
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  8054. Liam Payne formerly from the band 'One Direction'
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  8055. Hugh Mungas. Can't take views that diverge from your own? Sad.
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  8056.  @brianw.5230  I think Bernie will survive for long enough. There are good younger candidates. Bernie is a trusted one though.
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  8057. He filmed I suppose because she was breaking the rules and signs in that part of the park which require dogs to be kept on a leash. He had requested that she put the dog on a leash and she had ignored the request. I imagine he thought he was collecting evidence.
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  8058. Nothing in life is totally risk free but the risk of dying from Covid 19 is far higher than the risk of dying from the vaccine particularly for people who have underlying conditions such as high blood pressure and obesity.
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  8059. Bye bye.
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  8060.  @jonathanhadley2555  So far my sister and brother in law have had it. Another sister's grandchild has had it (caught it from a friend at school) and our next door neighbours have had it. My sister was very ill but recovered. My brother in law had a stroke as a result of it followed by 2 strokes afterwards which have left him permanently disabled. The others recovered although one of the neighbours was very ill with it. You can never be sure who will get a bad dose or one that leaves long term or permanent damage. It's a bit of a lottery at times.
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  8061.  @jonathanhadley2555  The virus does not 'target' specific groups of people. Anyone can catch it. It's that certain groups of people are likely to suffer more serious symptoms if they catch it.
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  8062. Because they can't even cope with processing those they have in custody. There's not enough staff on the job.
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  8063.  @stevej4328  Because we are not barbarians. Well, most of us aren't.
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  8064.  @stevej4328  Through my taxes I'm sure I have and through donations to food banks also t years ago we housed a Chilean refugee.
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  8065. @michael dent I never said they did. Don't attribute that falsehood to me.
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  8066.  @AthelstanEngland  I'm not arguing with your point. Younger people are encouraged to get vaccinated purely because it's now known that vaccination makes the virus less transmissable, but other than that there's less of a case for it. I guess Hancock is just trying to encourage uptake and at the same time addressing the criticism that if it's advisable for people in his age group, he should be having it also.
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  8067. Not in a leadership election, no.
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  8068. I wonder if this woman knows the media is filming her backside for public display.
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  8069. If you've half a mind to be on GB News, that's all you need. At least they occasionally invite someone with knowledge these days who can challenge the witlessness.
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  8070. He's not the most senior. Johnson has no deputy but previously we've had Michael Gove and Dominic Raab. I think they want to spread the blame.
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  8071.  @RealMikeLitoris  John followed the available evidence. Anyway the early variants were much more deadly than the later ones so it was important to have vaccines then.
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  8072.  @mariecurie7491  Except for the ones that die.
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  8073.  @georgealderson4424  You're right as far as you go but that's to focus on a limited aspect of this and ignore the conflict of interest, and any questions of morality. The Tories prefer a limited focus, because they know Tory voters won't like the moral implications. The conflict of interest aspect (before current resignations) was that she was a non-Executive Director of Hancock's Department and the role of Non-Executive Directors is to give independent advice and oversight of the performance of the Department. How can she be independent when they were having an affair? That's like appointing your best mate to mark your homework.
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  8074.  @georgealderson4424  I used the word 'affair' in the loosest possible sense to mean 'something going on' not necessarily a full blown sexual relationship but in many workplaces it's policy not to have such relationships and it can be a sacking offence. It's regarded as bad for morale because it indicates favouritism. The outrage among Conservative voters would be related to their conservative social views and how they like the Party to be seen and presented to voters.
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  8075.  @georgealderson4424  Sadly so. They have the help of a lot of media and they try to ostracise, intimidate or silence media that are critical of them. At the moment Boris is proposing to privatise Channel 4 because he hasn't forgotten how they embarrassed him by displaying an empty podium, when he failed to accept their invitation for their leadership debate.
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  8076. Unfortunately Capitalism requires growth to keep going. Can't help thinking we're all doomed ultimately. The alternative is that Capitalism collapses but that would cause so much hardship in the short run and it's not clear what would succeed it except chaos, or dictatorship or the embryo of more of the same developing..
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  8077. You'd think they'd have properly armed security guards on public arenas after the warning that group events were going to be targeted.
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  8078.  @greenandpleasant5523  Speeding and International law to mention two, plus Ministerial rules, more than once.
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  8079.  @billwilson3665  Why would the USA have prewarned Putin if it was the USA behind it? Why would IS claim it was them? Putin will want to blame this on Ukraine and some poor innocent people will be tortured and executed to fit Putin's propaganda. Putin has no conscience about killing innocents. There are hundreds of examples.
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  8080. Insult is no argument. Any idiot can insult.
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  8081.  @freemantle85  worse
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  8082.  @Squadron_Bodron  What is?
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  8083. Wow. Her English is better than yours.
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  8084.  @richvid9814  Good heavens, that's awful. Surely women aren't all attracted to the beefy type of man?
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  8085.  @fkitnow1488  Not at all. Just aware of history. As for religion or nationality it's not something that I get exercised over.
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  8086. They're here because many of them are already British passport holders or helped British forces. They've been flown direct from Afghanistan. Do you not watch the news?
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  8087.  @katdes7305  Illegal immigrants aren't entitled to benefits. Don't you check your facts?
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  8088.  @katdes7305  They may claim to be asylum seekers but they have to be checked out to see if they are genuinely asylum seekers or economic migrants. The latter are sent back, but yes they are housed and fed until their cases are sorted out. I am a taxpayer and I'm also paying towards the £37bn that Boris handed out to his friends and supporters in contracts for which there was no competition, and which have not been published as legally required, and for no little benefit to the country, as assessed by experts. I guess you're o.k with paying for that as long as the friends and supporters are not foreign.
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  8089. It's pronounced Amadeus (as in am) not Armadeus as in arm.
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  8090. What we don't hear is what is happening about this to ensure it doesn't happen again and who is going to pay the price - or is it just the taxpayers again?
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  8091.  @matthewbennett853  I don't know which is greater with Tory governments, their stupidity or their corruption. I've just seen on another news channel that 'lessons will be learnt'. That phrase makes me sick because lessons never are learned. It's just an excuse for sounding like something will be done without doing anything and without the perpetrators paying any price for their corruption.
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  8092. Those poor rich people. They obviously can't manage their money without handouts. They must be mentally defficient.
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  8093. Whilst I think this may be largely true, as long as highly intelligent people also possess emotional intelligence they can appear to cope well in these situations even if they are challenging for them because they know how to adapt to their audience. They can be kind as well as intelligent. The other type of person who prefers being alone is the introvert. The 2 conditions may overlap.
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  8094. An actress.
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  8095. Perhaps this is to boost support for the war against Ukraine in Russia. I imagine that support is waning as Russians learn more about it.
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  8096. Didn't Brexiteers consider that our history is majorly connected with Europe?
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  8097. That would require a general election, but as there is a 'viable' Parliament, the Queen could refuse it.
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  8098. She is giving up power voluntarily. She's been the best most competent leader in Europe.
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  8099. Subtitles not needed. Voters still supporting Trump are the racists and those thick as a brick.
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  8100. He can achieve more where he is. One MP on their own can't achieve much in Parliament. It's collectively that people can achieve whether in or out of Parliament.
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  8101. Henry VIII would be classified as a serial killer these days.
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  8102. Isn't Brian Cox saying that whatever 'slice' of space you look at or study, it's found to be flat and from that we can conclude that the whole of space is flat (though we don't know the size or dimensions of space, I'm assuming). Joe Rogan seems to be asking what is the size or dimensions of space.
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  8103. This is a democracy mate. You don't persecute people in a democracy.
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  8104. No. It's Julie Walters.
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  8105.  @samanthab1923  You can read all about it if you google.
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  8106. He's always having meltdowns but he never seems to disappear.
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  8107.  @promethean44  So never have treaties and always impose sanctions without a plan? The consequences of that are here for all to see.
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  8108. Charlie Elphick looks like Colin Firth's evil twin brother.
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  8109. Rubbish
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  8110. WWI and Russian losses led to the Russian Revolution didn't it? Is Putin going to repeat history via his war in Ukraine.
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  8111.  @armedwombat6816  Trump will find someone else to blame and sadly his supporters will believe him.
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  8112.  @JustUsFlyers  The majority of Parliament is trying to block a no deal exit. They don't trust Johnson not to be using this deal as a ruse to get to no deal because that's what Johnson and an influential group of Tories really want, whereas the general public in the Referendum weren't given a choice of deal or no deal. In fact the Brexiteers Leave Manifesto at the time said we'd have a lovely deal when we left (pages 3 and 30 if you care to look it up). SOME MPs are trying to stop leave by any means, that's true, but not the majority and most of them are representing remain constituencies or have realised that there will be no gain to the UK in leaving the EU considering they have had more information available since the Referendum. Also current surveys indicate that the majority of the population would not be for no deal and some indicate the majority would be for remain now. People are allowed to change their minds in a democracy. What we're witnessing is democracy playing out in a kind of Brexit/deal/no deal/remain death struggle - a complicated game of chess.
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  8113.  callyharley  And Farage doesn't have a high opinion of himself?
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  8114.  callyharley  He's consistent. He's not wanting to be P.M as he's nowhere near achieving it. He hasn't been able to get elected as an MP though he's tried 7 times. As for friendly chats with the Potus. The Potus regards him as his poodle who will follow what the Potus wants, should he get any power.
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  8115.  @tomservo5007  I thought someone who has been convicted of a crime and therefore has a criminal record could not stand for President. Is that not so?
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  8116.  @tomservo5007  O dear. An oversight I fear. The assumption seems to be that a felon is unlikely to become President because people would not vote for them, but Trump seems to defy conventional wisdom. Interestingly, while federal laws don't bar felons from standing for President, some state laws do bar them from standing for office in those states. How, in practical terms would someone be able to act as President if they were in prison by the time of the election? It's all testing the system and the voters isn't it? It's a matter of 'watch this space'.
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  8117. No idea about running the country also.
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  8118.  @bear1more287  It's not.
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  8119.  @Rachel-pf4cj  As you haven't figured it out, I'm unlikely to.
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  8120.  Sonny Burnett  What ritual archaic mask?
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  8121.  Sonny Burnett  I don't understand you. You're not making sense. I don't know about the FDA and the food pyramid. Governments can't always be relied upon to tell the truth but they are not capable of co-ordinating to create a worldwide conspiracy that damages economies and even the wealth of elites. I see no motivation for it as no one gains from it. If we live in democracies it's up to us to ensure we are not 'subjugated' and there is a lot of resistance to any such moves but I'm aware of the reality of Covid 19 and I trust Medics all over the world, some of whom are dying in their attempts to save people, not to lie. You can't corrupt the whole of the medical world. That would be like saying everyone is corrupt. Their motto is 'first do no harm'. The problems in society are to do with the way capitalism works on a global scale and the extent to which it is or can be regulated to work more fairly for most people. It's not to do with conspiracy theories. I've nothing more to say now.
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  8122.  Sonny Burnett  What are you getting at?
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  8123.  @tacmon29  Mandated by whom? Think what way? Evidence?
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  8124.  @diamondpearl6093  More likely corruption and incompetence and having their health system overwhelmed by ignoring the need for essential measures in the early stages.
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  8125.  louiseleu  Brainwashed by whom? You don't know me. You just disagree and have no intelligent way of expressing your disagreement other than insulting those you disagree with.
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  8126.  Sonny Burnett  This is how modern politics and capitalism works. The desire for profit trumps all other things. That's why it needs proper regulation in democratic societies but unfortunately corporations in many societies 'buy' the politicians that are supposed to represent and protect us. Be careful who you vote for.
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  8127.  @tacmon29  You need to be more precise with a web address. There are loads of agendas that come up when I google 'agenda 2020/2030' but I couldn't see any conspiracy theory ones.
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  8128.  @miapdx503  What new world order? Whose new world order? For what purpose and for whose benefit?
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  8129.  MindControl  What are you referring to?
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  8130.  @Asteroid45  Well, I tried.
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  8131. *inexplicable not unexplainable. In danger from not in danger of.
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  8132.  Tomakak  But that's history and under a different leader.
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  8133.  Tomakak  Well don't make comments as if you know them, when you haven't bothered to find out.
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  8134.  Tomakak  Chauvinist.
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  8135.  Tomakak  So can you. Sorry I descended to your level (as you started it) and for a moment I was tempted to find a better insult.
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  8136.  @Anees-  No. Science.
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  8137.  @zotharr  I don't watch much TV. I get news online more, but I suppose you have a point as to mutate is to change and the TV picture is always changing. One of life's obvious points though.
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  8138.  @mydogeatspuke  Don't you think highly of yourself?
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  8139.  @mydogeatspuke  It's you who keeps the comments going. So glad you put me right Doctor Freud. Perhaps this conversation can end now.
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  8140. In WW2 you would have had the compulsory blackout and been issued with gas masks and they didn't whinge then. In times of crisis we need to pull together not whinge about inconvenience. Without some controls it would be like Mexico which has dead bodies stacked in lorries on the streets because the morgues were full, and people queueing to get their deceased loved ones into cemeteries. In India loads of people couldn't get into hospital for treatment because the hospitals were full. Want to go down that road do you?
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  8141. The jealousy is over those who have more, hope, talent, influence and more influential friends. He almost despises himself for not having these things.
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  8142.  @iceetmarne3571  You could be right. I think it's a bit ambiguous. Does he despise himself for thinking these thoughts or because he sees himself through the eyes of others (as an outcast) and feels he doesn't match up to what he could or should be?
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  8143. Suella Braveman would be a disaster. She's worse than Boris for telling lies, and is willing to break the law and state that it's not illegal.
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  8144. Because he's no reason to lie now. Which of the leave campaigners are not liers?
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  8145. He's got some points to make but he's long winded about it.
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  8146. Whose billions is Trump going to spend on Gaza, his own, Musk's? Trump has said he would probably let others build the infrastructure. This is like 'Mexico will build the wall'. It ain't going to happen.
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  8147. And then again a recent report has revealed that more and more women have no children by the age of 30.
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  8148.  @alwayshangrygirl463  I wasn't blaming women. I was just stating a fact when someone suggested there were too many people having children. Biologically speaking the 20s is the healthiest and most fertile time to have children. Humans have evolved that way, but in today's society, as you say, not many can afford them at that age. As a society we don't do that much for the children we have.
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  8149.  @carlflegg  As long as it doesn't affect their ability to breathe.
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  8150.  Jordan pollard  Here's someone who doesn't know the meaning of the word proletariat.
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  8151. The first and second images of shooters look like the Afghan army. The allied troops positioned Afghan army soldiers between them and the Talban at the airport.
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  8152.  @KingSG_  I think they are Afghan army. It was reported that allied troops placed Afghan army troops between them and the Taliban at the airport.
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  8153.  @KingSG_  They are not in power for sure but the Allies are still using the remnants.
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  8154. Why does this video show an image of Edward VI when referring to Edward I's son? It's considered that Edward I expelled the Jews so that he would not have to pay them back for his borrowings. The image at 9:07 is Henry III.
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  8155. The main mistake US soccer teams make is to call football 'soccer'. Football doesn't like being called 'soccer' and takes revenge. It's a pity you didn't show all 3 Swedish goals.
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  8156. The title is misleading. He only asked one person to guess the cost of British healthcare. Some people are wearing their masks too loose so it falls off their noses when they speak.
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  8157. And how is your unnumbed brain doing?
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  8158.  John Munroe  You know nothing John Munroe (aka Snow). The BBC is controlled by its governors and the Chief Executive. This Tory government has appointed the governors and they appointed a hard market Chief Executive who privatised as much as he could, as they wanted him to. I wish they taught politics and government at school so people would know how things work.
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  8159. Playing Shakespeare is not about DNA and profile matching. The French King in this play is not played by a Frenchman. Richard III is not played by a disabled actor with scoliosis. How many gentiles have played Shylock in The Merchant of Venice? No one complained when Orson Welles and Laurence Oliver played Othello, and in Shakespeare's time women were played by men.
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  8160.  @earthman6700  Same thing.
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  8161.  @rogerwoodhouse7945  It is nothing to do with us but it does explain why Germany makes the decisions it does regarding the EU. I prefer to be linked to social democracies we have in Europe (and they are social democracies not socialist democracies) than to be linked to the nightmare vision which the USA is pursuing, small state, many guns, much violence and no real rise in the value of pay since the 1970s - warmongering, racist and divisive and run behind the scenes by big corporations.
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  8162.  @rogerwoodhouse7945 No I haven't covered it all. There's also an unfair health system that doesn't cover everyone, not much resources put into mental health care, which is probably why there are so many gun massacres, education beyond school level is expensive. The prison population is one of the biggest in the world. Some states allow the death penalty and marriage at an age we wold regard as underage. I'm sure I can think of more if you push me. It's not bile. It's just a description of a society I would not want us to emulate but I fear Tory politicians will wish to. One thing the US does better than us is financial regulation and dealing better with fraud and those who break finance or tax laws but somehow I don't think Tory politicians will want to emulate that. They'll want us to be more of a tax haven as unregulated as they can get away with.
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  8163.  littlebighorn  I'm sure he'll take us out no matter what the cost in order to try and save the Tory party. Heaven help us if the Brexit party ever get into power. What a bunch of dumbos and nasty little weasels fighting in a bag. If we go out on a hard Brexit though, I don't think the voters will be pleased with the consequences, even if they supported it beforehand.
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  8164.  @rogerwoodhouse7945  We believe we have an enormous influence with the Americans but they are the dominant power and the dominant partner, not us. I don't think we're as influential as we like to believe and sometimes US politicians actually let slip how they disregard us. Do you remember in 1983 when the US under Ronald Reagan invaded Grenada without even informing Margaret Thatcher in advance although it had been a British colony until 1974 not a US one? In the end money dominates. Power lies with the biggest economies and the US is still the largest economy in the world. Trump is certainly a bully and behaves like one. Just look at his dealings with Mexico, Iran, China, N.Korea and now Denmark. It's all bullying tactics - do what the US wants or they'll impose sanctions. With us I just think there would be no deals unless we give them what they want.
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  8165.  littlebighorn  Leaving with a deal was mentioned in the 'Leave Manifesto' pages 3 and 30. Leaving without a deal and the implications of that was not explored or discussed before the Referendum.
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  8166.  littlebighorn  Tha'ts just Tory tabloid propaganda to make people believe there's no good alternative to the Tories. The wealthy men behind the Tory tabloids are worried that Labour will plug the tax loopholes that allow them to keep their money in offshore tax havens.
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  8167.  littlebighorn  Listen to Americans themselves. They are under financial pressure because the value of their pay hasn't risen in real terms since the 1970s and they fear going bankrupt if they have a disease that their health insurance won't cover. Also many are not covered by any health insurance, or weren't until Obama expanded Medicare but Trump has said he wants to do away with Obama's reforms. He failed to get his measures through congress or the senate (I forget which) so now he's undermining the Medicare system through funding measures designed to make it too expensive for Federal governments to afford, and to push up the price of insurance for everyone else, in the hope that they will eventually capitulate to his demands. His technique is called bullying. He's tried it with various foreign governments too - being all nice and friendly at first, then making unreasonable demands and if they don't give in, applying sanctions or trade tariffs until they do. He's already bullying Europe over Iran. Europe and the USA had a deal with Iran to prevent nuclear weapons being developed. Trump pulled out of the deal for no good reason as there was no evidence Iran wasn't sticking to the deal. He then applied sanctions to Iran for no good reason. Europe wanted to stick with the deal but Trump said he would not trade with and would apply sanctions to any country sticking with the deal - more bullying, and all it's caused is conflict in the region and attacks on oil tankers travelling through the Gulf of Hormuz.
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  8168.  @ronnieince4568  Mutually assured destruction (MAD)would be the outcome of any nuclear war. It would be crazy for anyone to start it, but there's no sense that German politics are going in that again
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  8169.  @ronnieince4568  Bismarck was the strong man giving it large in 1871 was he not, and there was a build up of arms and aggression in Germany before WW1 also. We covered it in history. Hitler came to power in 1933 so there were about 6 years of warning there while there was another build up of arms and aggressive politics.
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  8170.  @ronnieince4568  The whole point of the EU was to ensure the peace in Europe and not repeat the past. If you want a country to be worried about it would be more likely that Russia, China or N. Korea would trigger something in future.
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  8171.  @ronnieince4568  NATO is a defence organisation. The EU is a wider project than that. Avoiding tensions in the first place is important too.
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  8172.  @ronnieince4568  Ha. Switzerland has no motive to be in a war. They have all the banks and all the money. Historically they have supplied lots of mercenaries to other European countries at war. I don't trust Trump's America to fight to save Europe. In an extreme situation I think he'd sacrifice Europe to save America.
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  8173.  @ronnieince4568  That's what happens in alliances. Denmark, Norway and France fought alongside us in WW2 except for the regions occupied by the Nazis. Also if your allies are allowed to fall, the predator will come for you next when you have no allies to fight on your side.
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  8174.  @ronnieince4568  Recently Mark Rutte, the Netherlands P.M said no one of significance in the EU is now pushing for these Superstate issues. It's water under the bridge. Did you know that the British wrote the German constitution after WW2? It works better than ours which has evolved haphazardly. We should be proud to defend that from dictatorship or any predator.
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  8175.  @ronnieince4568  People don't understand how we were to leave. There are various options. They are not all the same and they won't all have the same impact on the UK. How do people not understand that? If you voted to go off a cliff would you rather abseil down or fall?
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  8176.  @ronnieince4568  No one is going to attack us with nuclear weapons, that's true but having nuclear weapons did not prevent the Falklands War did it?
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  8177.  @ronnieince4568  Well you don't know that. If mad General Galtieri had a nice bunker he thought he could hide in or a nice jet plane to another country he might have decided to use nuclear weapons first, once he'd received that threat.
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  8178.  @ronnieince4568  They still fought us though they didn't have nuclear weapons and we did. Civilised countries can't really be first users of them and they know that, because the whole of South and North America would be up against us if we used nuclear weapons on their continent. The effects of radiation are carried by the wind and other atmospheric pressures further than their target area.
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  8179.  @ronnieince4568  When has the UK ever used them?
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  8180.  @Herzogluca  Darwin's 'fittest' doesn't necessarily refer to physical fitness. It means the most adapted to whatever threat or change comes along. We are the only animal that can develop a means of adaption such as a vaccine to protect us.
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  8181. 'I'm prepared to take on the orthodoxy'. That means 'I am going to ignore the experts (again)'.
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  8182. Conservative guy hasn't even seen the film, why is he commenting on it. He says 'we're making progress', well yes, in the wrong direction. How is making things worse, progress?
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  8183.  @Human_Harvest  How is it that he asked a woman to let the person on his phone know his location then? She realised he wasn't right in the head just by the look of him.
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  8184. Boris doesn't have the interest or skills or knowledge to negotiate properly. For him it's always wanting to be seen as some sort of victor in a macho sense, even when he's proposing nonsense.
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  8185. Sunak to hold his party leader accountable? Sunak is the party leader. You must mean the former party leader Boris Johnson but at the time of the contract Sunak was the Chancellor responsible for public money. You missed the point that firms to supply PPE got onto the VIP list for contractors because of their connections to the Conservative Party and their lobbying. Also many of them had no experience in this field. Some had been set up just a few weeks before for the purpose of getting these contracts. The contracts were issued without any competitive tendering as would be normal for such large contracts and the government never published the contracts as they were required to by law. There's more to come on this scandal.
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  8186. The translator didn't translate everything she said.
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  8187.  @EroticOnion23  My point was that they can't offer a lot of scholarships. The more scholarships they offer the less profit they make and there would come a point, if they had lots of scholarships, when they would make no profit all all and would go out of business. You say socialists go to communitry colleges and that they 'never learn'. Jeremy Cobyn is a socialist who went to a private prep school before going to a Grammar school but he's criticised for that, by Tories, as being some sort of elitist. Socialists are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Most socialists go to comprehensives not community colleges and mix with a wider range of people.
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  8188.  @EroticOnion23  I don't know what you mean by 'a lot' .How do they make a profit if they are offering so many scholarships? If wealth correlates to intelligence, how is it that we have such a whole bunch of wealthy numpties wanting to be conservative leader? Our old Etonians and top management have not distinguished themselves compared to Germany's more meritocratic, technocratic society, and the EU negotiators who don't have our private 'public' school system. Who thinks Trump, with all his vast wealth, is one of the most intelligent men in the States?
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  8189. I'm sure people will be happy with small compensation for earthquakes that destabilise their properties and fire that comes through their water systems as in the USA.
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  8190.  @SlowhandGreg  I'm aware but his pledges aren't all for infrastructure are they? If he just spends on infrastructure that won't solve the problems he's trying to address, except maybe growth but it's usually a long payback time and he's only got 2 years maximum.
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  8191.  @SlowhandGreg  I'm not advocating austerity or low wages. I liked Jeremy Corbyn's plans (Labour's manifesto) for the economy in the run up to the 2017 election, which were costed and showed the source of the funding, but the Tories have wasted so much money with their economic incompetence and corruption and their word cannot be relied on, so we need to see the costings and source of the funding for the next 2 years to avoid the risk of another crash and crisis.
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  8192.  @tastypymp1287  I'm not an economist but I'm pretty sure the multiplier effect applies to government spending or to spending in general rather than to profit.
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  8193.  @SlowhandGreg  I agree. The Tory legacy will not leave Labour much wriggle room. My feelings about Corbyn are that he did his best to make the Manifesto critic proof since he knew Labour was always vulnerable to criticism over being 'spendthrift'. A lot of it was about investment in infrastructure that would help growth like better broadband nationally, more green infrastructure, and investment for growth and jobs in those areas, especially focusing on the north of England. What Labour didn't explain so well was that their plans could not all be achieved in one single Parliament. Consequently people didn't believe the Manifesto pledges and thought it was more like a wish list.
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  8194.  @banananut9443  Jail is big enough for Trump and his corrupt cohorts.
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  8195.  Gostavo Gostavo  That's what I was guessing.
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  8196. The subtitles say 'seamlessly swim' but I think she says 'sinuously swim'
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  8197. Be careful with take away food. Many dishes have garlic in which is poisonous to cats.
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  8198. If the electorate had got something right, you wouldn't have those leaders in the first place.
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  8199. @Bilal Khalid I agree and it's clear that was always going to be the case. Anyone who thinks there's a brilliant deal to be had or that we can leave without penalty is fooling themselves.
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  8200.  @luciatilyard2827  I don't disagree with you. There's no easy answer. We will be damaged as we come out though.
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  8201. I think the Tory government had a hand in bringing down themselves and if they hadn't they would have brought down the NHS.
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  8202. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Can't expect anyone to follow the rules after this.
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  8203. There was a cat that survived the great Fire of London. He was found in a burnt out building afterwards. I don't know how long it survived though.
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  8204.  @micah.101  When people think they know 'the real truth' more than the scientists and the medics, you know they are beyond hope.
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  8205.  @raatkirani4405  It's not about following the mainstream, it's about following the science, the scientists and the medics. I trust them more than conspiracy theorists. Science is at least verifiable.
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  8206.  sid viciouss  Well the whole world has to be like your own small circle does it? Thank goodness no one you know has been infected, but why not talk to some nurses or volunteer in a care home for a broader picture? My sister and brother in law have had it. A local shopkeeper has died from it. Those politicians who didn't take it seriously have had it, Boris Johnson, his health secretary, his Chief Medical Officer, his Foreign Secretary, his political adviser, Republican senators in the USA, Jair Bolsonaro, President of Brazil. Hotspots in the UK and US have occurred where people have ignored the request to socially distance or wear masks or where people have been working in crowded working conditions.
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  8207.  LetsTalkSense1  Nighty night.
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  8208.  LetsTalkSense1  Where does the 15% come from?
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  8209.  @danormal1707  Herman Cain, politician, died in the USA. He was against mask wearing and social distancing. He caught covid 19 and died. My brother in law who caught Covid 19 had a stroke as a result of it. (The virus is known to cause blood clotting) The damage from the disease can last. He has just now had a second stroke.
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  8210.  @danormal1707  Prince Charles is 71 not 90+ and he's engaged in sport for a lot of his life (polo) so he's probably fairly fit for a 71 year old. I think you are confusing Prince Charles with Prince Philip. Prince Philip who is 99 has not had Covid.
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  8211.  @danormal1707  Here's what the doctor in 'Private Eye' magazine says: "Covid is much less likely to be fatal in the under 50s but evidence is emerging it may cause severe long-term health consequences, even if the initial infection appeared relatively mild. A small study of 100 German patients who had recovered from Covid had MRI scans of the heart and it was found that 78 had 'cardiac involvement' and 60 had ongoing myocardial inflammation, which was independent of, any other conditions they had, how severe the illness was and how long it lasted. Whether this translates into long term damage remains to be seen. In terms of lung damage the NHS is anticipating that Covid survivors will have more chronic cough, fibrotic lung disease, bronchiectasis and pulmonary vascular disease. Those who have been in intensive care will have long term rehabilitation needs. The Long Covid Support Group study estimates that 10% of people with the virus take at least 3 weeks to recover with 250,000 people in the UK thought to experience symptoms for 30 days or more. Brain fog, chronic pain, headaches, dizziness, nausea, palpitations, shortness of breath, post exertional malaise and a severe reduction in everyday activities, and many are suffering anxiety and low mood. Overall, it's a virus best avoided."
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  8212.  @devilsadvocatetrolledition3183  It seems he has but he's now saying that people testing positive for Covid only have a slight chance of having it.
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  8213.  @raatkirani4405  I'm following the NHS and British scientific advisors and the WHO. I don't know ant British scientists who say the virus doesn't exist. The WHO website says the virus was isolated.
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  8214.  @danormal1707  You want to wallow in ignorance and conspiracy theories because it suits your mentality - that's all. Science is at least verifiable - that's what makes it science.
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  8215.  @micah.101  Which scientists and which medics are you 'reiterating'? Thay may have said it's not serious for most people who are young and healthy but you know many westerns societies have ageing populations and also many people who suffer from chronic illness, disabilities or obesity. Young people may pass it on to others who are vulnerable, if the spread of the virus is not controlled.
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  8216.  @danormal1707  You are in a muddle. 1. Masks allow oxygen through them, otherwise you would die wearing one. 2. There's Carbon Dioxide in the air anyway. Your body only takes in what it needs - oxygen and breathes out what it doesn't need - carbon dioxide.
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  8217.  @danormal1707  You can live without optimum Oxygen but you can't 100% say you can live if you get the virus. I don't know what you mean by depopulation using vaccines? Where is the evidence of that? Is it another conspiracy theory? Why are you so keen to believe unproven cobblers?
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  8218.  @danormal1707  Everything is only linked in a paranoid conspiracy theorist's mind or a Chinese or Russian troll's posts. Whose agenda do you think this is? Have you actually found evidence of Bill Gates sating this?
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  8219.  @danormal1707  I can't see any link.
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  8220.  @pointblankracer6274  Good luck to you too xD
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  8221.  @annbaker2219  Apparently they can't retrospectively do that. It's not possible within the law, as the police were acting in accordance with the law at the time.
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  8222.  @zeusgiron784  You saved my faith in humanity.
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  8223.  @zeusgiron784  Exactly
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  8224. Has he gotten too big for his spats? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy0zNDfVZOQ
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  8225. Never say never.
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  8226.  @alice1374  Not yet. He doesn't want to be verbally assassinated by the Daily Mail and the likes as Corbyn was.
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  8227. No they model themselves on the Tory government.
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  8228.  @paulcummins5231  Any relation to Dominic?
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  8229.  @paulcummins5231  He's not really. He's his own best friend, out for revenge.
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  8230.  @paulcummins5231  All the media love a scandal and a revenge story. It's clickbait
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  8231. I don't see him as manipulated so much. They do share a sense of grievance and entitlement and when Harry met Sally (sorry Meghan) she emboldened him to express his discontent in this way. His fear about 'history repeating itself' is probably genuine though. I don't think 'logic' is a strong point of Harry. He and she react more emotionally than thinking logically. She thought she won the lottery and didn't read the small print which requires certain duties and discretion in the role.
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  8232. Worst case scenario. Trump loses but manages to sabotage the vote or the post office so that the results don't come out or don't reflect the actual result. People realise this is probably what's happened. Violent protests erupt in the country. Trump uses force to suppress them and jails many opponents. Welcome to the Trump banana republic.
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  8233. Victoria Atkins
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  8234.  @MartyJackson  She's not a new MP. From Nov 23-July 24 she was promoted to Secretary of State for Health. I've seen her being interviewed by various journalists on TV. No one seemed to stay in their jobs for long under the Tories.
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  8235.  @TomRogersOnline  No. I've jut researched the facts.
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  8236. but Parliament won't be fooled. Theresa May already tried that and failed.
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  8237. They still do.
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  8238. It's not as if the hairdresser did much.
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  8239. When he was talking about the EU it struck me that's just what Boris would love 'power without accountability' and page 48 of his manifesto indicates he's working towards that. As for being bullied, the UK government instigated or voted for 98% of EU regulations.
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  8240. The gruesomeness of deaths in films is why I never watch films like these - even had to skip through this video when it started getting too gruesome. Also Sean Bean's first death looked ridiculous. He falls out of a helicopter onto concrete and survives so that he can die when the burning helicopter falls on him.
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  8241.  @claudiacolli9931  Not the right steps at the right time. He may be a good actor but he's no Fred Astaire.
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  8242. Bound to be divisions in a leadership campaign. I remember when Gove stabbed Boris in the back but all is sweetness and light with them now isn't it?
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  8243. Usually from age 18
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  8244. Millionaires children don't go to state schools generally.
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  8245. Can you have a law 'compelling people to be honest' when the standard police warning tells people that they don't have to self-incriminate?
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  8246. Ruling from the saddle with a sword in his hand, sounds like Henry II who actually got a fistula in his arse. It's been theorised that it may have resulted from his habit of eating poor food on the run (rotten meat?)
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  8247. MRWorldGuy. Alessandro De Medici, Duke of Florence will be coming to have a word with you about whether black people existed in medieval Europe. Here are some images . There are more if you look for them too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_de%27_Medici,_Duke_of_Florence http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/search/1400s https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/179581103870072466/?lp=true https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauresse_de_Moret http://afroeurope.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/history-of-black-people-in-europe.html https://za.pinterest.com/pin/456482112206780114/?lp=true https://art.blognook.com/2017/08/06/medievalpoc-workshop-of-girolamo-miseroni-cameo-with-black/
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  8248. Men who love ignorance don't want their wives and daughters to be more educated than them.
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  8249. When she's not claiming ignorance, when cornered by the evidence she claims she does not remember.
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  8250.  @ZuvioxArts  Unlike this government who think public money is theirs to waste, or share with their friends and supporters, Corbyn's manifesto showed how he would have invested it for growth.
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  8251.  @Knotshaw  Thank you.
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  8252.  @Ik-gs1io  I've never heard them admire Kim Jong Un and as for lying, they are nowhere near Trump's scale of lying (if they lie at all) which seems pathological and almost compulsive.
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  8253. If you mean Russia, then maybe that was the only option offered to them. Isn't it wonderful that you can freely comment on the internet. It's a pity Russians can't do the same on Russian media. That's the same behaviour as a Nazi regime.
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  8254. Could ivermectin have caused the mutations in the virus I wonder?
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  8255. Interesting that he says the Spanish flu probably came from Central Europe. Two different historical documentaries that I've seen said it came from the USA. Yes viruses can come from anywhere but certain avoiding measures could be taken in Chinese wet markets to prevent viruses spreading to humans and eating certain types of wildlife seems more risky than others. Man should be preserving wildlife anyway rather than eating it. I want to know who that cat was in the background and where was it going when it climbed the ladder.
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  8256. I'm guessing that wife was Connie Booth, his co-star and co-writer of Fawlty Towers. She would fit your description.
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  8257. @ If it happened to me I don't think I would have forgotten.
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  8258. He can't even get elected as an MP - 8 failed attempts.
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  8259. Nervous in front of cameras, probably more relaxed in private.
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  8260. I took deposing to mean standing down or getting rid of (yea) but they mean it in the legal sense of taking a deposition I understand (anti-climax).
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  8261. He's been defeated 7 times already trying to get into Parliament. He probably doesn't want another defeat.
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  8262. What is M.I.T.?
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  8263. I think it's sarcastic/ironic comment because that's what Muslims often get told. She's just turned it on its head. Of course White Christians aren't going to leave. She knows that.
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  8264.  @flabbybum9562  He's the man who admits he 'didn't realise' the importance of the port of Dover to our trade with the EU, and this was when he was appointed as chief negotiator for Brexit, a post which he resigned from shortly afterwards. Many of these confident 'contenders' either have no awareness of their ignorance and shortcomings or don't care if they do.
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  8265. The Iranian government sees itself as 'God' does it?
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  8266. The world is being ruined. Glad I went to some of these places in the past. Now it looks risky and it's horrible for the residents.
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  8267. Only Trump could keep reversing his statements like this because he has no embarrassment threshold and no sense of failure.
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  8268. Salzopyrin. Wow. Aren't you the ignorant one. A person resorts to personal insults once they've lost the argument.
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  8269. That looks more like feeding than yawning. They look like giant tadpoles that have been dyed white with some frilly pink accessories added.
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  8270. Looks like he's being overfed which is not at all kind.
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  8271. I think you have the start of a poem there.
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  8272. Where?
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  8273.  @josephhenry9924  15 million include vulnerable people under 70 and also they don't tell you but some areas have already been vaccinating over 65s so some of them will be in the figures. Also nurses and care workers, doctors and hospital admin staff have been offered the vaccine and will be in the figures and they won't be over 70.
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  8274.  @rocklover7437  Also, the common cold mutates too fast, and it's not a serious illness, so it's not worth the effort and expense of producing vaccines and vaccinating everyone. Vaccines would have to be changed and administered too frequently. How many of the 15 million who've had Covid vaccines have died so far?
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  8275. No one's running the country. Be afraid - be very afraid bwah ha ha ha ha ha.
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  8276. The energy companies and experts say that fracking won't make any difference to the price of energy which is priced on a world basis. However the risks have not been properly assessed.
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  8277.  @armand9404  Maybe we should have energy rationing and more communal hubs where people who can't afford to heat their homes can stay warm.
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  8278.  @armand9404  You're being a bit of a Jeremiah, I think. Rationing could mean rotating energy-on times rather than cutting off permanently. I remember energy blackouts in the 1970s under Edward Heath's government. We survived.
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  8279.  @samanthawhiting7962  People can choose how to spend their money though. Is yours an argument for paying the lowest possible wages?
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  8280.  @samanthawhiting7962  I don't understand your penultimate sentence. It's not grammatical and doesn't seem to make sense.
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  8281. I don't understand why Bolosonaro is so popular in Brazil. Could they possibly have elected a more useless leader?
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  8282. Though she may have been cast as she was the best actress at the audition.
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  8283. When you are o.k with those amounts being spent on defence but not on health, aren't you really believing that you don't deserve it and you are not worth it?
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  8284. Out of Trump's own mouth? Oh yeah.
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  8285. The revenge of the animal world. If people got it from handling fish which they did not consume, wouldn't hand washing prevent infection?
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  8286. Because they tell the truth. The Conservatives have just taken a BBC announcement about more government money for education and put it on their website with a headline doubling the amount of money. All you get is propaganda unless you have a TV station whose charter obliges it to be fair, truthful and non-biased. That doesn't mean you won't hear views and opinions you don't like, but you will hears opposing views too and the BBC will be paying people to check facts before publicising them.
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  8287.  @stefonetyus4869  O.K
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  8288.  @robertmckinnon6564  He is isn't he?
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  8289. Because he realised it was a sinking ship financially and also he was embarrassed by its amateurism.
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  8290. I think it may be in light of a recent survey that found a lot of NHS staff were experiencing racism in the NHS. They don't have enough staff and need to keep hold of those they have
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  8291.  FourZeroFive  If HR is there to address racism, why was so much racism experienced according to a recent survey?
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  8292.  FourZeroFive  P.S. HR used to work to fair guidance/rules but in recent decades it's become more a tool of management.
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  8293. Her actions will cut housing costs for immigrants. To be frank as pensioners my husband and I received Winter Fuel payments though we didn't need them and I wondered why they weren't better targeted to those more in need. However I am concerned that this new policy may cause some real hardship for some pensioners who have only the state pension to rely on.
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  8294. How can you tell? Because his lips are moving and he's speaking.
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  8295. No Led Zeppelin? Actually people eventually get too old to want to do live tours and play highly energetic music as well as just growing apart personally and artistically.
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  8296.  @Miist3rDuce1  Originally yes, but some of the band wanted to continue later and they had Bonzo's son as a drummer. Robert Plant didn't want a permanent return though.
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  8297.  @Miist3rDuce1  I don't think it's that after all this length of time, and they played with John's son Jason at the celebration year and in live aid or band aid. All including Jason were willing to carry on, but Robert was not. I have heard and read many reasons from him over the years why not. He hasn't mentioned John Bonham as a reason in recent years.
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  8298. He means an agreement.
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  8299.  @Shteev91  If they agree , they agree. If they don't they don't What's the problem?
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  8300.  @Shteev91  Of course he will if there's agreement.
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  8301. Unusual and unfortunate factors that worked against this poor kid included lockdown where he was kept indoors while schools were closed so he wasn't seen at school where he might have alerted someone or be noticed missing from school. Another aspect was that he was taken from his real mother as she had stabbed a partner to death. She appeared to love her son though and probably would have protected him or her parents would have, whereas the child's father did not protect him. He seemed like a lovely boy. It seems to be a case of a new partner not wanting him and his father caring more about his new partner than his child. Also his father seemed like a weak minded man, with not much independent thought. He believed everything his partner said and did everything she wanted.
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  8302. Possibly, possibly not.
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  8303. Argentinian
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  8304. Surprise, surprise!
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  8305. She can remember most of the Shakespeare she has played. 99% of actresses can not do that.
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  8306. The side effects of rampant capitalism more like.
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  8307. That's Donald Trump isn't it? The oppressor in the system
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  8308.  @fuckbankers  Not all Trusts, but with money pressures on them they often appoint outside managers from private industry who have little knowledge of healthcare and are mostly concerned with what they believe to be 'efficiency'. From Margaret Thatcher's time to the present, they believed outside management would be beneficial for the NHS and managers who did not achieve financial targets often didn't last long. Some medics believe in natural births and that there are too many caesarians in modern obstetrics but, and natural births are also cheaper (so nicely fitting with management ideas of efficiency) but caesarian births are sometimes necessary and taken to extremes, the natural birth view can be harmful. Lack of monitoring and lack of care in complex cases and failure to listen to mothers who know their own pregnancy history is another failure in this case.
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  8309. I only like parties when there are people I know and like there - friends. I hate parties where everyone is a stranger. It's difficult to know what to talk about. I'm no good at small talk and there's pressure to seem like you are enjoying yourself. It must be worse if you are famous like Stephen Fry. People expect you to be funny and entertaining all the time.
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  8310. Well since the Tories have cut the central grant to local government by up to 80% since 2010, it's not going to be easy for anyone running local government at the moment.
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  8311.  @Norfolkandchance886  TfL made an operating profit recently though they have a historic debt. Khan reduced the debt until Covid came along an hit TfL revenue. It is recovering from that now.
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  8312. I love living there.
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  8313. Could be subsidence, possibly.
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  8314. It was Amber's lies that brought Kate Moss to testify.
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  8315. Trump can't even read
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  8316.  @superguyx5468  Why am I a hypocrite?
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  8317. She has to beat Louis XIV's record.
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  8318. This should be troubling you more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SyWel4UqOA&list=LLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=3&t=0s
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  8319. hear
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  8320. And wood is a fire risk.
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  8321. Because that's the most important thing isn't it? Pathetic question.
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  8322.  @Lonnplays  No, you've missed my point, which was that the press don't focus on important things.
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  8323. What do you mean? This is fine acting.
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  8324. It's a turkey from Turkey.
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  8325. If Fetterman pronounces the r and the tt in his name, you should too, interviewing journalist.
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  8326.  @joeyq95  I know that. I'm British too.
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  8327. What does patriotism mean? My country right or wrong? 'The last refuge of the scoundrel'? I think people are educated enough to judge things on their merits not with the presumption that my country is the best in the world at everything at all times. That's progress. However there is plenty to be proud of that Britain has fought for or created or invented to the benefit of its people and mankind. Parliamentary democracy, the Vote, workers rights, musical greatness, the NHS, its theatre and poets, fighting against Hitler, etc etc etc. I think the English are embarrassed to celebrate St George's Day since English history is a mixed one so what exactly is being celebrated? England was a nation that conquered and oppressed its neighbours, the Welsh, the Scots and the Irish as well as many other countries in the world and the flag has been commandeered by the far right to support their version of Englishness which is often racist.
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  8328. Fine tooth comb? When has Trump ever been a details man? He doesn't even have the patience for that but neither does he have the mental equipment to do that.
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  8329. Shorting is just gambling in the worst possible way.
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  8330. That was weak by the speaker. Previously Dawn Butler was not allowed to call Boris a liar, but Boris is allowed to state that Starmer is guilty of misconduct, without any evidence. Boris should have been excluded from Parliament. The P.M is ignoring the rulings of the speaker, with JRM laughing at it in the background.
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  8331. Yes, much better to be ruled by narcissists like Trump, Boris, Farage and Assange.
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  8332. I get the impression she doesn't fall for the 'little boy lost' act.
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  8333.  @GamingBear_Q_E_D  That's not true.
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  8334.  @JayOne718  Yes. I always hope it changes for the better and doesn't get uglified because people can't express themselves in it so invent ugly lazy variations.
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  8335.  @JayOne718  I'm someone with an opinion who loves the language, no single person invented.
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  8336. You can't say that about Trump on this show. This is a show for brown-nosing Donald Trump.
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  8337. Sick of people whining about the BBC and obsessed with 'defunding' it. Closing down media channels is never good for democracy. They are all hypocrites as their real motivation is political censorship.
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  8338. 'Trying to get to the bottom of what the smell is'. Lol. He has a terrible diet which must be affecting his guts.
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  8339. Everyone knows that. The only remedy is to oust the Tory government.
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  8340. It's probably because Trump has a habit of saying afterwards he achieved x, y and z but the foreign leaders say 'I never agreed to that'.
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  8341. He's like old style conservative when the party had 'one nation' conservatives and there was a wider span of views in the party.
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  8342. So aluminium's o.k as the tariff's only on aluminum ha! ha!
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  8343. I think of the Plantagenets as being like the mafia.
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  8344. Understaffing is due to Brexit but here's some people who may be willing to fill those vacancies.
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  8345.  @johnp6636  There sure aren't Brits queueing up to fill those vacancies.
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  8346. You can make the choice for you to risk death but you can't be allowed to risk other people's lives.
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  8347. The language of Jesus was Aramaic. Someone made a film about Jesus and he speaks Aramaic in it but I can't remember who's film it was. Could be Mel Gibson's
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  8348. He'll be o.k. The rich will just shift their investments to the most profitable places such as tax havens. There will be no restrictions on that once they are out of the EU. Why do you think they want it so badly. It's not 'patriotism'. 'Patriotism' is the last refuge of the scoundrel' as Dr Johnson once said.
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  8349.  @gungadin406  Freedom? hahahahahah. You'll be ruled by the USA instead. If you want deals with them they will extract the price of doing what they want in trade, in lowering standards and in foreign policy.
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  8350. Isn't it one of the few channels to allow members of the public to grill politicians, or are other channels also doing this?
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  8351.  @rdrhouse  I dunno about that Farage and Labour party members have been on the channel and this show a lot. Farage isn't even the leader of the Brexit party and he hasn't been elected in any constituency so he's been rather indulged in the number of his appearances. I've seen the Brexit leader being interviewed more these days but I can't remember his name.
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  8352.  @rdrhouse  Well your comment is ambiguous. Are you saying Labour and Brexit get an easier ride when they appear on the BBC?.
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  8353.  @rdrhouse  Yes because I thought I understood what you meant but you then said I was mistaken, so I ask again, what do you mean?
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  8354.  @oniondesu9633  At least the audience members get to respond to any answers they get, so they have the last word and can give their opinions about what the politicians said.
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  8355.  @alanroberts6059  Oops. I was thinking of UKIP but Farage has registered the name of a new party called The Reform Party, so his future moves are anyone's guess.
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  8356. @FlapJack NI They've not been using NI as a weapon, just upholding The Good Friday Agreement which the UK is also signed up to.
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  8357. @FlapJack NI Who? Where? There are probably arseholes on both sides but was that an official position? To my mind there is no Brexit solution to NI because the Good Friday Agreement which was signed up to by the UK, NI, The Republic of Ireland, the USA and the EU forbids a hard border on the island of Ireland. The nationalists also don't want a border there. Under the terms of Brexit we came out of the EU customs union so there have to be customs checks between the EU and the UK. The solution offered by the EU and accepted by the UK was to have a 'border' in the Irish Sea but the loyalists in NI don't like that and are kicking up about it. There's no solution to please everyone in the UK and NI, while NI is part of the UK. NI also voted to stay in the EU in the 2016 Brexit Referendum. Loyalists don't like the 'border' between Britain and NI (in the Irish Sea) because they think it makes a United Ireland more likely. They want a border on the island of Ireland because they think it makes a United Ireland less likely so there is an underlying political agenda on both sides as well as trade considerations.
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  8358.  @jpw6893  I know. It was a bad move on their part and very short sighted. Brown thought it could be used to get more hospitals built without breaking EU finance rules, because PFI schemes were 'off the government's books'. However, apart from being very expensive for the NHS, they were inflexible. Fees under PFI contracts had to be paid for 30 years , even when some of the services they covered were no longer required. Some hospitals have managed to buy themselves out of PFI schemes but it's been hugely expensive to do so and many hospitals are in debt and don't have the money to do that.
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  8359. Maybe the lockdown has affected his income and he has rental arrears. The notes say he us an actor. All theatres and public performance spaces are closed and not likely to open soon. The government did bring in some rule that tenants can't be evicted for a few months. I wonder if he knows.
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  8360.  @themightydash1714  Isn't the landlord breaking government rules though about evictions? https://www.martintolhurst.co.uk/site/blog/mt-news/can-a-landlord-evict-a-tenant-during-the-coronavirus-lockdown The way that these issues should have been dealt with is as follows. The tenant should always check the inventory for the property when moving in, to check what damage already exists and notify the landlord of any. When leaving it should then be easy for the landlord to check whether any new damage has occurred during the tenancy. The landlord can usually recover the cost of this from the tenant's deposit.
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  8361. Because, as Churchill said, it's the worst system except for all the alternatives.
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  8362. In the 1970s my first permanent job was in the East End of London and as part of that I needed to visit a lot of Bangladeshi clothing companies. The workers there were always very nice and offered me cups of tea and cigarettes (though I don't smoke). I didn't detect any bigotry then. They worked for low wages but often sent a lot back to their families in Bangladesh. What a shame this has happened to the country.
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  8363. Isn't 80% and 67% the difference between the furlough scheme which ends at the end of October and the new scheme that takes over after that?
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  8364. Newsreaders or news journalists shouldn't be 'taking sides' but asking the kinds of questions that the public would like answered. It's a bit odd to judge a journalist as if the question he's asking is his own opinion. On some channels they may be prompted by owners to take a 'particular line' and they may have questions of their own but unless they are putting people down or not giving them a fair hearing, a question is just a question. It's not a matter of whether he understands the issue or the argument, but whether the public does and whether his questions and the answers help them to understand it and test the information being received.
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  8365. Pronunciation of ecurueil e as in egg, cur as in cure, ueil, a as in the name of the letter a. All said with a French accent. Your vowel sound o in cote is not quite right. It's not o as in cot but o as in coast. More like that anyway.
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  8366. Trump doesn't really want a democracy does he? He'd prefer a banana republic set up where he can just use the army or the national guard to keep people under control. Just look at the people he admires as strong men: Putin, Kim Jong Un. These are not democrats.
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  8367. I'm wondering if Hackman died and his wife then took her own life.
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  8368.  @pumpkinfield100  Because she could not live without him or did not want to live without him? Maybe she felt the dog would not cope. Maybe the dog was getting distressed. Maybe the death of the dog was an accident as she thought they'd be found sooner. Maybe she wasn't thinking straight.
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  8369. Dim and dimmer.
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  8370. Will the BBC now be subject to Sharp practices?
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  8371. Does Trump actually think at all? I hear he had to be persuaded not to bomb Iran last week, yet he aims to pull all US troops out of the region. What does he think will happen if he bombs Iran and pulls out US troops from the region. It's not rocket science to imagine the result.
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  8372. There are plenty of videos like that on youtube. The government itself will not want to exploit such footage. They would be criticised for doing so.
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  8373.  @sharukh78  It's a good thing I don't try any Indian languages as I know nothing of those.😊
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  8374. Why be concerned about that? The Royal Family is strong enough to look after themselves. What Brexit has done to the poor and working class is much worse.
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  8375.  @adaster98  The reason they had to sit at the border and no longer had residence in the UK is because of Brexit which meant the introduction of border controls and the ending of freedom of movement. The government is reluctant to give visas to the European workers that were lost as a result, as they believe the Brexit vote was basically an anti-immigration vote. You get what you vote for.
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  8376. It's probably taking a leaf out of Boris's book. His failures have never held him back.
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  8377.  @kylewilliams6091  On the vaccine, yes, but he also was unprepared for the pandemic at the beginning, in spite of being warned by his experts, he allowed untested hospital patients to be sent into care homes which is why we have the highest number of deaths in Europe. He frequently flip flopped in his advice and decision making and he wasted £37billion on contracts to friends and supporters, mostly on test and trace, for a very poor performance.
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  8378. I don't know. I hear Yaxley-Lennon owns an nice big house.
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  8379. *regnant. The reg bit rhymes with peg. It's Bowes-Lyon to rhyme with lion. I rather like Katherine of Aragon. The image of her as an older woman is not the most flattering one. Elizabeth I is impressive but was horrible to the Irish and also allowed many of her sailors, newly victorious against the Spanish Armada to die in the streets for lack of pay and support. Eleanor of Aquitaine is also impressive but was partly responsible for the hostile divisions in her family pitting son against son and son against father. Catherine De Medici was a tyrant, a bigot who stirred up trouble, divided her sons and the country.
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  8380. For the sake of the planet, a declining population is a good thing. Why have so much repetition in the video? China will probably find some inhumane way of solving the problem since they are not big on human rights.
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  8381. Not so much Mogg spreading as contempt for Parliament - typical entitled behaviour of public schoolboys who expect to get their own way, when they don't.
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  8382. Like you I'd never had Covid at the height of things though at least one household member had it. I did eventually get it in January 2023 when I went to a family funeral. I stayed with a sister who thought she had a cold but it turned out she had Covid and all the family members who stayed with her caught it. Her house was very well draught insulated and windows were not open because it was Winter, but also we hugged each other because of the circumstances of the funeral. My symptoms were just tiredness and a headache for about 10 days and I recognise the 'can't be bothered, can't seem to focus' symptom. It must have been the Omega type at the time. Anyway I've had worse colds than that. I was classed as vulnerable through age and having asthma and diabetes. I also had a progression of cancer but wasn't diagnosed or treated for that until March. I've had all the Covid and flu vaccinations offered to me. Having had Covid did take away my fear of it, but I guess I was lucky to get Omega and not some earlier variant. I hope you feel well again soon.
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  8383. What Farage doesn't mention is that the government's budget cuts to police budgets since 2010 has meant the loss of 20,000 police officers.
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  8384. It's not normal to release a person's name when they are in custody, until they have been charged. It looks like a white guy though and the woman he first spoke to said he looked not right which would probably mean he looked mentally ill.
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  8385.  @NecessaryDramaAddictionNDA  How can you tell his nationality from the videos and stills?
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  8386.  @NecessaryDramaAddictionNDA  Why would that be relevant?
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  8387.  @NecessaryDramaAddictionNDA  What exactly did you hear? What was the impression you got from that?
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  8388.  @NecessaryDramaAddictionNDA  I don't know yet.
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  8389. It's because his own power is being taken away. No 10 will run his department and he'll be just a figurehead to do what he's told and a convenient scapegoat to boot out if it all goes pear-shaped even if he had no input and no control over it.
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  8390. Trump destroyed his own businesses. Then he was elected to President where he starts destroying the economy. Never really detected self loathing in Trump. He must be good at hiding that.
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  8391.  @maekong2010  When the law, the constitution and the truth are not respected, democracy suffers, but Trump is not concerned about that. He has said that he benefits from chaos. He said this when he was younger and used the same chaos tactics then, but at that time he was just a businessman, not President of the USA.
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  8392.  Time's Up John  Trump was nominated by a far right Norwegian politician. Trump certainly didn't let anyone ignore that. He was trumpeting it all over the media.
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  8393. You must have low self esteem to think of yourself as a 'nobody'.
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  8394. Well it gives both parties the opportunity to give their point of view. Where is the bias?
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  8395. Present some evidence then. No one can rely on the words of political spokesmen.
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  8396. 'He likes to have countervailing viewpoints?' Never noticed that before.
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  8397. By the time it comes, we will know whether Boris has left, or asked for an extension. Legislation has now passed to prevent him leaving without a deal. It only needs Royal Assent but it would be up to Boris to ask the Queen for Royal Assent. We live in interesting times.
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  8398.  @greg6812  Thanks. I've already had it.
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  8399.  @mysticalwildflower5257  Any laws. All laws. Don't you know what laws are? Don't you know any laws?
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  8400.  @mysticalwildflower5257  Any and all laws. I'm making a point about laws in general, not laws on Covid. Someone said 'compliance' was the main purpose of Covid measures, but compliance is required for laws. If compliance was an end in itself, that could be achieved by creating more laws. I don't believe that compliance is the main purpose of Covid measures. If you don't understand that explanation now, I can't help you with more explanation.
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  8401. Perhaps they think being orange will distract people from thinking too much about any nonsense they are saying. I don't think you should have made the 'France hasn't bombed Italy yet' point because they could have batted that away with saying they have not been enemies in recent history. Your original point about 'what has Trump done to get the credit?' is better. Anyway any North Korean restraint on weapons use didn't last long. Don't worry about adverse mail, you were talking to a Fox audience, remember?
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  8402.  @unclepiccolo4832  It's not a trainwreck. It's brilliant. Have you actually watched the whole thing? I have.
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  8403.  @unclepiccolo4832  You missed my point entirely. Whoosh! Anyway I don't know how you can judge something unwatchable without watching it. I wouldn't like to find myself in court with you in the jury.
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  8404. They never said black lives don't matter. Why twist this? They were wishing for him to get better.
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  8405.  @keith6799  I'm talking about what was said in the video and the first comment. I don't know what you are on about.
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  8406. The cynic in me thinks it's not in the interests of drug companies in the UK and the USA to have the benefits of vitamin D publicised, because it might reduce demand for their drugs and reduce their profits.
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  8407. The plus side is that it's temperate. You rarely get extremes of weather or dangerous weather.
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  8408.  @palshett  Are you referring to the last few hours? I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to Putin (his reputation as a manipulative liar and propagandist is evident). The 'ceasefire' (in selected cities) is to let out the civilian population but I think that's so he can resume more ferocious bombing of the Ukraine military and government. We shall see. A ceasefire usually has to be discussed and agreed by 2 sides, rather than being one sided.
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  8409.  @palshett  In the news today.... Russians still firing missiles during 'ceasefire'. Civilians unable to leave.
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  8410.  @martinlong3502  Presumably they are terrible because they never learned.
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  8411. Money is an efficient form of exchange. How would it work otherwise? Bartering is time consuming and inefficient and wouldn't work for everyone, the old and the ill for instance.
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  8412. Don't be fooled. He may be nice to chat to but his beliefs are no joke.
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  8413.  @michaelmurphy1127  He's no great supporter of the NHS and I've heard him talk about the need to scrap it in favour of an insurance system. I believe he's keen on a laissez faire economic system of the type they have in certain parts of Asia. That would reduce a lot of workers rights and standards of living. We had that in the Victorian age and generations of workers fought since then for their present day rights. He's cagey about what he's for rather than what he's against but he was a Trump supporter and is on the right of the political spectrum so it's fairly clear which type of economy he prefers. In a video from his “Common Sense” speaking tour, Farage is seen calling for an insurance-based system of healthcare dictated by market forces rather than central government. He said: “I think we’re going to have to think about healthcare very very differently. “And I think we’re going to have to move to an insurance-based system of healthcare.
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  8414.  @michaelmurphy1127  I have already given you the references to find the evidence which was captured on film or video. I'm not going to do the donkey work for you. Nigel is very good at taking a populist stance and saying what he's against (which is easy). He's careful not to say what he's for but pretty well all people that far right are for a laissez faire economy and I know what it means. If an economy is largely unregulated with not much of a welfare state, that means a worse life for ordinary working people as they always take the brunt of economic downturns while the rich tax avoiders are largely able to ride out the storms. The pressures in unregulated capitalism are always for cutting costs which means cuts to pay and conditions for workers in real terms. The USA is a good example of wages not rising in real terms for decades.
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  8415.  @michaelmurphy1127  'overrun by socialists'. Lol. Socialists brought about the NHS and many other good things in society. I'm sick of that tired and lazy Tory bullshit that it's 'wasteful and inefficient'. If it is, the Tories with have been in charge of it for long enough with their wasteful and expensive re-organisations so blame them. However when Margaret Thatcher first started saying it was wasteful and inefficient and needed reform, it had admin costs of 6% one of the lowest, if not the lowest in the world. The thing about the NHS and care when you are ill is that it's people heavy (about 70% of NHS costs are staff, or were then. I'm not sure what it is now but it can't be far off because care is delivered by people, by doctors but more frequently by nurses, and that's what people need to feel cared for and get better. Most of the rest of the spending is on drugs, equipment and accommodation. Efficiency in Tory terms means staff cuts. Even today the Tories refuse to publish a 'safe level of staffing' recommendation. As for Farage, I'll try and find that video/film and post it for you. I did hear it myself but it was some time ago and I didn't save it anywhere.
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  8416.  @michaelmurphy1127  The conservatives voted against the establishment of the NHS 21 times before the act was passed. When I'm ill, I want care and competence. Efficiency is not the first thing on my mind, but you have given no examples of 'waste' which you complain about. I assume that the waste of public funds by this government on failed contracts, and contracts that have ripped off the public purse bothers you not a jot. Also, why is it that failing businesses always want government support (which is taxpayer support). If they are so 'efficient' they would not need that. Many have also defrauded the government by claiming furlough payments without putting their staff on furlough.
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  8417.  @michaelmurphy1127  That sort of issue is something that should be raised with the local MP rather than profiting from it at the same time as criticising it.
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  8418. Go back in history and almost no one was 'woke' then. Why not cancel the whole of history and everyone writing in it. That would be very Orwellian.
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  8419. I've heard some symptoms cause people to make terrible jokes. I'm not the 'spelling police' but the 'free online education service'.
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  8420. I can foresee him saying the election results are fake when the time comes or just trying to prevent as many people as possible who might vote against him from voting. He will use Covid as an excuse for imposing restrictions that will make it difficult to vote.
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  8421. You can find further details if you google. She had her dog off the leash in a part of the park where signs say it should be on a leash. He saw it running through newly planted areas and disturbing birds he was interested in seeing. He requested that she put the dog on a leash. She ignored the request, so he started taking evidence by filming her. She got upset and asked him to stop. She came over to him and threatened him with the police, the rest you can see in the video.
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  8422. If his son gets it, it should be renamed 'Trump News'.
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  8423. He fought but the law is against him. The government imposed the lockdown. The thing is not to vote clowns into government the first place.
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  8424.  @mattevans4377  Then people who are not clowns should join political parties to make them more representative and competent. However they are not all clowns.
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  8425.  @mattevans4377  They do enter to some extent, but people like to vote for 'handsome' toffs it seems. Snake oil salesmen.
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  8426. @MGazT Unless the virus mutates like the flu virus. People who've had flu can still get flu in the future. Covid may turn out to be that sort of virus. People have already reported having it more than once.
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  8427. Do witnesses in the Senate have to endure personal abuse without a right of reply? Why would anyone take notice of Greene who takes notice of no logic or evidence?
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  8428.  @realfreedom8932  I hear them talking about deaths but greater infection rates lead to more deaths and blocking of hospitals so other serious illnesses are not treated when they should be.
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  8429.  @realfreedom8932  The reason it's not overwhelming hospitals at the moment is because of the measures taken to slow down the spread of the virus. If the death rate is better than the cancer death rate, that's because of the measures taken to slow down the spread of the virus. There are countries .e.g in central America, where health services were overwhelmed by it and dead people were stored in lorries on the streets and there were queues for cemeteries . Dementia patients are being protected for the sake of their health and that of their carers. Having said that, I hope care homes find a way to allow visits because of the effect on the quality of life of the elderly without contact with their families.
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  8430.  Arran Robeson  If your question was written in intelligible English so that people understood what you meant, someone might answer you.
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  8431. @s m They are also looking at indicators like the number of hospital admissions which are rising steeply now, especially in the North of England and Wales. Deaths is another indicator. Deaths are not rising as steeply, but there is usually a 2 week time lag between the two.
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  8432. @s m Presumably Covid is on the certificates because the doctors recognise the symptoms and signs even if there hasn't been a test.
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  8433. @s m Not necessarily. Doctors are allowed to state what they believe to be the cause of death, That's normal for normal death certificates where no autopsy needs to be performed. In the beginning tests weren't always as available either. If you remember the government guidance for care homes said that some patients would be sent to care homes from hospital untested and some might have Covid but that care homes would be able to cope. That wasn't true as care homes didn't have the PPE or any other equipment such as ventilators at the time,.
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  8434. @s m What proof? There is no 'new world order' only new world chaos and disorder. Some leaders are not capable of creating any kind of order, new or otherwise.
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  8435. Research has shown that the Brits don't have worse teeth or worse dental hygiene than Americans. It's just that in America it's more normal to get every little imperfection "fixed", to have teeth straightening, veneers, or teeth-whitening for that perfect plastic look and nobody should expect other countries to be like their own. It would be boring if they were.
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  8436. Capitalism has cycles of recession and expansion. The government should be protecting the population by saving and investing in good times to protect the population from the worst of recession but the Tories don't believe in that as a government role. They are in power merely to protect those at the top, and of course governments keep changing and the Tories like to undo what's been put in place before, selling and privatising public assets. They also don't believe in regulations which might protect the economy and the health and safety of the population. The government stirs up a lot of prejudice and division in society with scapegoats to blame, and then appeals to the population by claiming to share their prejudices. Labour is up against this and know they can only change things if they can get enough support to get into government.
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  8437. She didn't mention that there were historic documents of the time that mentioned that he was buried in Greyfriars Church and the remains of that church were under the Leicestershire car park. Where her intuition led her was to a part of the car park which (ironically) was marked with a painted letter R and he was actually found under that.
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  8438. Sky News has a strange anti-Biden and pro Trump obsession or is it Rupert Murdoch's obsessions they are reflecting?
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  8439. @Bphmt If you're referring to me you couldn't be more wrong. I was so glad to see the back of him but now he keeps popping up in the news again. He's like Jason. He's dead but he won't lie down - keeps coming back to life.
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  8440. Putin secretly supports Trump because he knows he will weaken the USA. He's not wrong.
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  8441. If she didn't want to be an MP anymore, I'm sure she'd prefer to stand down voluntarily with dignity, not be sacked.
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  8442.  @shuggiemcg1  She has made it very clear how upset she is at the thought of being sacked. She's actually a Labour loyalist. Watch her public statement on you tube to a crowd of supporters in Hackney and see how her hand (holding the microphone) is shaking. If you'd given the largest part of your life to a cause or an organisation how would you feel at the thought of being ungratefully and unceremoniously ejected by it?
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  8443.  @paultaylor7082  She had to earn her place by being elected every few years. Sorry for your mate. Sometimes employers sack older, more experienced, better paid employees, to cut costs, but I don't see why Diane Abbot should resign unless her constituents want her to. It's no one else's business.
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  8444. There were lots of women and children on the planes. Do you not read the news?
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  8445.  @knightofwangernumb2998  You mean you don't read sources you don't agree with and decide to call it propaganda. You can at least see the images of people on the planes if you look.
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  8446.  @ImGettingOld911  They were all spewing bullshit. I think he was fired to protect Rupert Murdoch.
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  8447.  @theambiguoustruth8167  For US news and politics, CNN, MSNBC, Brian Tyler Cohen, The Meidas Touch, David Packman. There are others and you may not agree with their political stance or opinions but they don't tell lies about facts. I listen to a lot more sources in the UK as that's my main area of interest. I also do a lot of googling and fact checking.
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  8448. 'Footage of them moving about'. Lol. What a euphemism.
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  8449. He has convictions like Thatcher had convictions. It's o.k for politicians to have convictions as long as they accept they will be voted out if the electorate disagree with them. A hard Brexit will damage Britain badly. No country in the world relies wholly on WTO trading terms for very good reasons.
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  8450. Biased Rupert Murdoch channel. Murdoch supports DeSantis.
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  8451. Good that he's agreed to do what he's obliged to do (as if he had a choice. Lol)
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  8452. But what is the definition of a particle? How does it relate to atoms?
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  8453. No he didn't. JRM avoided answering some of JOB's key questions, such as the fact that economist and pro Brexiteer Patrick Minford, whom JRM cites in support of hard Brexit, has stated that hard Brexit will destroy British manufacturing and farming. Minford is quite o.k with that. He doesn't think it's important, but will the public be so willing to accept it. JRM wouldn't even admit that's what Patrick Minford said. Nor could he deny it. He just ignored the question completely. He does that when the facts don't suit his argument.
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  8454. No it's not. It's a comedy sketch by Tracy Ullman. Did you not realise?
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  8455. *O BBC. You have an educational remit. It's 'hangs precariously' not ''hangs precarious'.
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  8456. A lesson in how not to govern. A lesson in who not to vote for.
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  8457. It's curable you know.
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  8458. Only one chip? Are you on a diet?
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  8459. gladifly. The level of your bigotry and ignorance is astounding. You are bang in line with Nazi thinking.
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  8460. Pras Lye. I should welcome you since I live there, but bigots are not welcome in London.
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  8461. Pras Lye. Nope. The groomers were jailed.
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  8462. It's not fine that any of the Royal family were friends with Adolph Hitler but it was only the King who abdicated who was friends with him. The present Queen and her parents were a target of his bombers. People aren't being 'replaced'. They are still here but many city inhabitants have moved to a better life in the countryside outside of the cities. Maybe corporations 'served' the Nazi government in Germany (which was also self-service in terms of profits), but they did not serve the people. The people were gun fodder for Hitler in the end. He did not care if they all died as long as they continued the fight, even when he knew it was no longer possible to win that fight.
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  8463. Gladifly. That's aboslutely not true. 1) It was Edward VIII, King George's brother who was friendly towards Hitler. 2) The Brits did not target civilians at first. British civilians were targeted by German bombers during the Battle of Britain in 1940. 3) The British did not start the war. Hitler was warned by the allies that there would be war if he invaded Poland and he chose to invade Poland thus starting a war. Stop reading and listening to fake history. Look it up for yourself.
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  8464. gladify. You are wrong. Show me any evidence that George VI met Hitler. You are getting him mixed up with his brother Edward and can't be bothered to check it seems. The Battle of Britain started in July 1940 and 'From 7 September 1940, London was systematically bombed by the Luftwaffe for 56 out of the following 57 days and nights.' 'More than 40,000 civilians were killed by Luftwaffe bombing during the war, almost half of them in the capital, where more than a million houses were destroyed or damaged.' Chruchill did order a bombing attack on Germany in May 1940 after the Germans bombed their allies in Rotterdam, Holland. When allies are at war they will seek to protect each other. Hitler only wanted friendship with Britain on his own unreasonable terms i.e allowing him to invade other countries, and you could not trust Hitler. He had an alliance with Stalin, then suddenly invaded his 'ally' Russia. It does not matter that there were Germans in Poland. That does not give one country a right to invade another and when Hitler did invade, he had extermination camps built for Polish opponents and Polish Jews. He was a disgusting human being responsible for millions of deaths of his own people, his opponents in the war and the Jews. Defending him is frankly something only nazi sympathisers do.
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  8465. Stop thinking and leave! We can't think beyond that because we can't be bothered looking up what life will be like under WTO terms.
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  8466. Edward III made the mistake of having too many sons which caused a problem when his eldest died before him. On the other hand not having enough sons i.e. not having one, could cause problems too (e.g. Henry VIII). It's a lottery.
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  8467. And the Tory Party must cease dependence on Russian donations.
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  8468. Disgusting.
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  8469. Maybe you should have watched French and Saunders or Absolutely Fabulous first.
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  8470. I think you should worry more about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24du25osgRY&list=LLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=2&t=2s
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  8471. The essential elements are included on the BBC news website.
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  8472. @Craig Murray You can probably read the full agreement somewhere on the internet by googling, if you are so minded.
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  8473.  ROL G Songwriter - No ads in here !  *Trojan
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  8474. You'll need to look for the facts as it's quite complicated and better to search facts from a reliable site than to hear only 'interpretations'.
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  8475. He was either seeking an answer from the paper or doing a variation on la la la not listening.
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  8476. What can be achieved with intelligent people in charge.
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  8477.  @andrew30m  I don't think it was about culture. The cultures of countries has not become less national, as you say. I know they were concerned about the idea of a European army. Farage kept banging on about that.
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  8478. It is probably about targeting arts and humanities degrees I suspect. The Tories don't like those but not everyone can be a highly paid professional.
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  8479.  @harrydavey9884  There are lots of ways of expressing yourself in arts and learning about different ones can open up new perspectives and help people to find their strengths and direction. Some creative functions require technical expertise for cinematography for instance or computer graphics. As for medical professionals, why then is the Tory Party telling Universities to cut down on training places for doctors and suggesting that medically unqualified people called 'assistants' will be available to see people at GP surgeries? Why are there so many professional medical vacancies in the NHS. It's all about money. Low pay that has not kept up with inflation, leading to high turnover, leading to remaining staff being overworked and often becoming stressed and ill or making mistakes due to tiredness.
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  8480. Re Tipper Gore; the word should be 'repelled' not 'repulsed'.
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  8481.  @alaistermclellan6710  Strangely enough when I worked for the civil service I knew someone who worked there called Alastair McLellan but I know it's not the same person as he died.
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  8482. The problem is that they don't much want to spend taxpayers money on things that create public benefit for taxpayers. They prefer to help themselves or dole it out to their friends and supporters among the wealthiest section of the population.
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  8483.  Canuck Crusader  The Dutch guy was only thinking in terms of trade. 'Why would a merchant want to do that?'
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  8484. The Tories have already cut civil service numbers so much that there are not enough people to cope with the extra Brexit workload. So yeah. Cut more,and they will be even less able to carry out this government's stupid policies.
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  8485.  @ryrilo99  It's not really possible for people to step in and do the work if they don't have the knowledge about how things work in the British civil service. Even Dominic Cummings is now complaining about the 'loss of memory' in the service and that's due to the cuts and the high turnover. There are all sorts of precedents rules and legal requirements that will act as obstacles to achieving objectives or trip people up or just create chaos and muddle, if people don't know about them.
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  8486. You weren't listening carefully to the video, and being put on a ventilator is not 'normal procedure' since it's for severe cases and only about 50% survive after being intubated.
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  8487. @Andy N That's a bit too easy. I think the blame lies closer to home with the Tory party and their lack of belief in planning and their free trade liberal economic policy. and obsession with Brexit. Germany hasn't had a problem with PPE for instance. They manufacture their own PPE and the Tory government was invited to take part in a EU order for PPE and equipment, but they turned it down.
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  8488.  @jonnie350zje  You know you're not really a fan if that's all you can say and all you can focus on.
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  8489.  @hitas3799  O.k. Those are fair points, but the vast majority of England fans are not like that and would condemn that behaviour.
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  8490.  @jonnie350zje  Yes, I hope so but England fans are very bad at counting their chickens before they are hatched, so I will have no expectations and make no assumptions. Italy is a great footballing nation and will be a formidable opponent. i think as long as England play as well as they can and without fear, no one could criticise them if they don't win.
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  8491. Can we see the evidence?
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  8492. This is so sweet. I just worry that because of their rate of breeding he will be overrun eventually and what if they move on to neighbour's properties. Neighbours may not appreciate that.
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  8493. It's probably going to be much the same, in which case it's a loss saved rather than any gain.
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  8494.  Ruth Collins  It's hardly more democratic when Boris is planning to break the law, make changes to the constitution to remove opposition to what he does, regularly lies to the electorate, and attempts to censor and damage media outlets that don't kiss his arse. When we were in the EU we were one of the most influential members and 99% of EU legislation was initiated or voted for by the UK.
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  8495. Imagine a world without antibiotics - oh the suffering
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  8496. There's a contemporary cartoon of Edward I (Longshanks) drawn on the wall of King John's House, Romsey (which was nothing to do with King John). The cartoon was drawn by one of Edward's soldiers when his soldiers were stationed there. He was drawn with a big nose.
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  8497. How many crossbows do you own?
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  8498. @@hayp682 'our freedoms'. You still have the right to learn English.
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  8499. Trump's always right in his own estimation but what he speaks is bullshit mainly
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  8500. Don't encourage them. Navalny's not out of the wood yet.
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  8501. Piers Morgan is working for Rupert Murdoch and his show on Talk TV in the UK is also featured on Sky Australia and Fox news in the US. All very right wing and anti-union.
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  8502.  @jeffsmith3392  Better to vote for someone else.
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  8503.  @davidfarmer2049  Pointless to spoil a vote. It just means you get ignored. Tories are happy with apathy.
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  8504.  @davidfarmer2049  Counted as what? A spoil vote? Same difference at the end of the day.
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  8505. Redwood has always been nuts. The others are probably aware that they are lying.
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  8506. More divisive than the Tory donor who said she should be shot?
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  8507. I really like the word 'ructions' though it's not used much.
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  8508. Wasn't it enough that Covid came from China whether deliberately or by accident? It has backfired on China, and you think they'd be more careful now, having learned a lesson. It could be a scam by Chinese companies to 'validate' false reviews, rather than from state sources.
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  8509. I saw that play with Ian McKellen.
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  8510. I wouldn't believe everything you hear or read.
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  8511. Sometimes when cats seem mean they are just frightened. We had a cat who like to sleep on hard surfaces until she was old and then she allowed herself some comfort for her old bones.
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  8512. If he didn't win there would only have been one season.
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  8513.  @TheDeepState2001  It does show different aspects of life that he's operating in - the rise of Tommy Shelby is mixed with politics but the series aren't over yet so we don't know how it will end. It may end in failure.
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  8514.  @TheDeepState2001  And fascism in this current series (Oswald Mosely) and it had Winston Churchill as a character.
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  8515. He said lovely not loving.
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  8516. From One Direction. Liam I believe.
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  8517. Rubbish,
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  8518.  @hurera2000  Sadly, many people find the 'smooth toff' image appealing and vote for it.
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  8519. The media usually concentrates its interviews on the south which is why southerners are jaded with it. The media usually too lazy to go north which is why it's an exciting novelty up there. Also northerners are generally more friendly.
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  8520. @Rimadim dim *dim?
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  8521. @Rimadim dim Sorry, I couldn't resist. Your name on this site just sets you up for that joke.
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  8522. @Rimadim dim Eh?
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  8523. @Rimadim dim So you are not only dim but sleazy too.
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  8524. Since the questions and comments were legitimate, laughing to 'minimise them' is still appalling. Just giving answers would be better.
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  8525.  Scott427 Smith  Anyone could run and be better than that. What a low bar!
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  8526. It's not your country Lee more than any other voter. You want to dictate to everyone else.
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  8527. Nothing to do with Remainers. Boris did this to himself by taking taxpeyer funded defence lawyers when he didn't need to.
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  8528. our not are
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  8529. I don't know. Some could be Scottish, Welsh or Irish.
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  8530. We're not paying for him anymore. It's up to the family isn't it? I don't see the Queen doing that.
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  8531. Why do people want Brexit when there's no evidence that it will benefit the average person?
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  8532.  Denise Bond  If you don't want Brexit, you must want Remain. Those are the only 2 possibilities or are Brexiteers not logical? The Tories have been unable to 'cough up what you 17.4 million people voted for 3 years ago because they didn't vote for any particular deal and there are different deal options so that needs clarification. Also the vast number of MPs know now that Brexit offers nothing to the average person but Boris's lot push ahead because it offers a great deal to the wealthy, corporations, money launderers, tax avoiders and financial speculators, who are Tory party supporters and in whose interests the Tory Party acts. The rest of you are cannon fodder, useful fools, expendable in the interests of the mighty. It's like you voted to deal with a broken finger by having your hand chopped off and even when people say that's not the best option or solution, you are still saying 'Nope, I want you to act on my first decision and the same for everyone with broken fingers who made that decision.'
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  8533.  Denise Bond  Shouting doesn't help. The reason it's taken 3 years is because it's such a bad thing to do and everyone who's looked into it knows that and is trying to stop something that has no benefit for the average person in the UK.
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  8534. *Wembley
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  8535.  @flnoname9586  Never say never again (as James Bond would say)
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  8536. Good to know.
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  8537. I once asked my doctor for a sedative I could take before an MRI scan as I was afraid that the noise and claustrophobia would make me have an anxiety attack and I would not be able to bear having the scan. She gave me 2 diazepam - one to try out the day before and one for the scan. I took half of the try out tablet, the day before, and I found it to be so strong and unpleasant that I decided to go without any, and I got through the scan (which consisted of 30 minutes of keeping absolutely still inside the noisy scanner) fine, without it in the end. I would never want to take them again. This story sounds horrific. It confirms in my mind that there isn't a drug for the human condition but anyone who could survive this withdrawal would probably have the strength to avoid taking such drugs in the first place. They just don't know that they have that strength.
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  8538. Bojo's like an elephant blundering about in a China shop and Leadsom is thick. Raab is also thick and ignorant. Heaven help us.
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  8539.  @anubis6864 I like Labour's last Manifesto and attempts to honour Brexit while securing a deal that protects jobs and rights in the UK. Corbyn, McDonnell and Thornberry, - nothing wrong with them. not keen on Abbot's lack of maths skills but she probably is aware of her deficiency now. In power the civil servants do the number crunching for them. They just have to understand it and present it. The other 3 are quite capable of that.
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  8540. They cut this short. Dawn Butler also listed some other lies that Boris told and they missed out the bit where she was kicked out.
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  8541. It's your comment
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  8542. If Putin walks all over Ukraine, the rest of Europe will be next. He has a Hitler like mentality when it comes to war.
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  8543. He says it because they all thought the EU would give way and they are still naively hoping so, because WTO terms are the worst to be on and no country in the world trades solely on WTO terms it's like the 4th division of trading. Having deals is the premier division, but once there's a hard Brexit (Brexit without a deal) every other country they want a deal with will screw them down because the UK will need the deals more than they do. Also deals can take years to negotiate. They will escape the EU only to be dominated by that bully in the White House. Some Tories want us to be more like the USA but their society is not a great model, with people living in fear of guns, no real rise in pay since the 1970s and much lower regulatory standards to protect the health and well being of their population. Corporations rule.
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  8544. Never ask the crowd to name anything because it will go wrong? Much less serious than asking them whether to leave the EU or not.
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  8545.  @yuccatree4298  Yes that's the origin of the word. They were given that name by their opponents The Whigs, I think and it was meant as an insult. The word Whig was also an insult and meant country bumpkin. I'm not sure what Stephen Fry video you are referring to.
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  8546.  @yuccatree4298  I'll have a look at the video. You know cultural influences come from all over what was The British Empire. Those cultures have influenced Britain which is why our most popular dish is curry and we have lots of Indian words in the language like pyjamas, shampoo and bungalow. It doesn't always mean something negative. Sometimes Brtain has adopted concepts or words they've admired or learned from or that are lacking in our own language or expressed better in another. Tory may be one of those and we have the term Boycott as well. I'm sure there are many others. Britain is also a very diverse country now. There isn't a single English or British view of things.
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  8547.  @yuccatree4298  Sorry I can't find the link from your earlier post. Could you possibly copy and paste it to me in reply?
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  8548.  @yuccatree4298  What a brilliant video. I think it's spot on. I will be sharing it with any deluded Brexiteers I come across.
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  8549. I hear Hancock wants more privatisation of the NHS.
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  8550.  @DTG-classified  America does not have any far left mainstream media. Your definition of left wing is media which are not as rabidly right wing as Fox. Your centre of gravity is off.
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  8551.  @DTG-classified  I think he has ambitions that way.
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  8552.  @geoffdalton4597  Because he speaks up for Manchester whom he represents?
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  8553.  @DTG-classified  I think American media is divided between the 2 parties but not slavishly so. I wouldn't say they predominantly support the Democrats, but in any case the Democrats are not 'far left' in general. I think the Republicans are going through some identity crisis at the moment. British media certainly does not favour Labour. The BBC has a Tory Chairman and a Tory Director General. The Tories are trying to silence any opposition. They want to privatise Channel 4. Boris hasn't forgotten the time they replaced him with an ice sculpture when he failed to turn up for a leaders debate before the election.
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  8554. It's a great performance.
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  8555. That description could fit GB news.
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  8556. I'm being treated by foreign born nurses and doctors as well as British born and I can't fault any of them on the question of compassion. Lovely people.
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  8557. No one is 'jeaulous' because that word does not exist.
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  8558.  @lennylaa1686  Yeah, Upper class buffoon
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  8559. Putin doesn't exactly demonstrate that he values people's lives in general. He's needlessly sent hundreds of thousands of Russians to their deaths in Ukraine and he's had many political opponents and journalists killed. I expect he had help with his speech.
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  8560.  Rahul D  When my daughter worked as a waitress, she was the only English person working in the restaurant and the other staff said to her 'Why are you working here? If we spoke English as well as you we would not be working here.' Most English people aim for better paid jobs. The immigrants are prepared to work for lower pay it seems because where they come from pay is even worse or jobs are not available. The theory was that if we came out of the EU, pay would have to increase to attract more British workers. We shall see. P.S. Immigrants are keen for their children to be educated so that they can get better paid jobs than their parents.
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  8561.  Rahul D  I'm sure there are still many people desperate to get out - men and women.
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  8562. Joe Rogan looks like Inspector Montalbano with a dash of Irish. Shannon O'Loughlin admits to being approximately half Choctaw and half Polish when pushed by Joe Rogan but where does the Irish name come from? It all looks like a good mix. Great hair, teeth and bone structure.
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  8563.  Jesse Caldwell  But her first name Shannon is not her married name, but the name of an Irish river.
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  8564.  Anglus Patria  Who rattled your cage?
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  8565. *pissed off not pissed. Pissed is American. It's Gallic not Gaulic. Good video though.
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  8566. This needs to be analysed further. If you are already incubating Covid when you get vaccinated or within 3 weeks of vaccination, the vaccine won't stop it because the vaccine takes about 3 weeks to produce antibodies. Also there's some evidence that it's not so effective in cancer patients unless the 2nd dose is given within 3 weeks from the first. If people stop protecting themselves before allowing the full effects of the vaccine to happen, and after their 2nd dose, they can still catch Covid. Also if the vaccine did not stop 12,000 people getting Covid, did it reduce the seriousness of the disease so that they did not need hospital treatment?
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  8567. Much food for thought.
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  8568. Boris and Truss were British and they trashed the UK economy. The Tory Party is an equal opportunity economy trasher. Don't be obsessed with skin colour.
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  8569.  @taniayager3361  * Rashford tried to help but the government voted down his proposal yesterday.
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  8570. And just how is that going in South and North Dakota, for instance?
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  8571. He's laughing because he thinks his career is safe now.
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  8572. Great performance
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  8573. Nice teeth.
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  8574. It's a piece of drama by Shakespeare. The incident probably never happened but is there for dramatic purposes. Eleanor was set up by Margaret here. Her downfall came later. Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjr5wjIiJ7E&t=15s
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  8575. America is right in America
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  8576. zonal spore. I dunno. Passionate about football I guess. Caring about things in general.
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  8577. Which Tory propaganda has he been swallowing. He doesn't seem to realise there are far more tax paying workers than rich people tax payers. Wealthy taxpayers are often parking their wealth in offshore tax havens.
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  8578. Who are the snowflakes here? Why it's the Trumpists. Even her face isn't real.
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  8579. Meyers shoudl know...you can't be 'uninvited' unless you were invited in the first place and then your invitation was withdrawn later. The words are 'not invited'
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  8580. But it's nearly as bad.
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  8581. It's not the numbers of those who would have died anyway. It's corroborated by the 'excess death' figures. i.e the number of deaths above the average for the time of year.
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  8582. Lots of historical buildings in York. It's been an important city since Viking times as it was their capital in Britain.
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  8583. It's filmed in the UK. It's a UK show which is also shown in the US.
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  8584. Old News. That's why.
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  8585. No, but it's old now so wouldn't be funny now. This is a show about current news. You're the imbecile, by the way. How could I have 'stocks' in the BBC. It's not a public company that offers shares?
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  8586. There are people who can work with one leg but they probably would need to be digitally experienced or with a good prosthesis. I expect education/skills barriers also exist and the lack of a relevant CV. I saw people in this predicament in France years ago but never in Britain at that time. Things have got so much worse in the last 14 years.
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  8587. There weren't many of those in Germany.
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  8588.  @avae5343  Oh and Boris is a man of the people, not snobbish at all? He's just a better actor and liar.
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  8589. They may be community police. Those are volunteers.
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  8590. Johnson has refused to apologise for that lie.
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  8591. Putin must be kicking himself if he didn't manage to get hold of these, when there was an open goal.
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  8592. I suppose the markets have the same sort of view as mortgage brokers when they impose an affordability test on would be borrowers. They want to know when and how borrowing can be paid back. They won't rely on some nebulous theory of growth of income in future particularly when the outlook for the future looks difficult. This is interesting because Labour has in its past manifestos, talked of borrowing for investment to produce growth. Investment is more likely to produce growth than tax cuts because it is more targeted at businesses that have consumer demand or can create it, to produce growth and it's growth that will allow the repayment of debt. It's also possible to calculate the anticipated return on investment. However nothing is without any risk. Would the markets, who are risk averse, have taken the same view of Labour's plans I wonder. I'm not defending the Tories here as I can't see how their cuts would have produced growth, but are the markets intolerant of all borrowing by a country already in debt unless there's absolute certainty about the pay back mechanism or is borrowing for investment with a calculated payback time acceptable? The only alternatives seem to be growth in exports (difficult post Brexit) or cuts in spending (difficult politically and morally). I suppose the answer is for countries not to corner themselves in the first place but we are where we are now.
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  8593. For all the first time buyers who can't afford to buy a home or can't afford one in their local area, because homes are not affordable any more. Extra affordable homes might reduce house prices generally as well as rents. Developers and landlords don't tend to like that. It's a nettle Labour will have to grasp somehow.
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  8594. The only 'benefit' of Brexit mentioned before it happened, and before it was voted for, were government lies, but anyone doing a bit of internet searching could have discovered most of that early on. The rest was hoping the Tory government would step in to help communities. When have they ever done that before? It was a triumph of hope over experience, a false belief that the UK could return to a Britain of the 1950s, or age of Empire, and quite a bit of anti-immigrant sentiment, that fuelled the Brexit vote (though Wales does not have that many immigrants from outside the UK).
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  8595. I think he just tripped over his words. There was an interviewer on UK radio who introduced the Health Secretary at the time, Jeremy Hunt, as Jeremy Cunt. It was accepted as a slip of the tongue. I once worked with a colleague whose name was Kuhnesberg which was pronounced partly like this guy's slip. I was referring to the guy in my conversation and I remember an African colleague asking me to spell was I just said.
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  8596.  @Sofian375  That pathetic comment reveals the the pathetic level of your thinking.
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  8597.  @Sofian375  Another trite comment from you.
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  8598.  @juanio7036  Not really. https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/did-bill-gates-test-unapproved-vaccines
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  8599. De Santis's video shows Brad Pitt as Achilles (presumably as an example of heterosexual manhood) but Achilles was probably at least bisexual. Has De Santis not heard of Patroclus?
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  8600. He had scoliosis which is a curved spine so his spine was distorted. It would have made him hunched sideways rather than having a hunched back. She is being a rather economical with the truth as she is very partisan about Richard.
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  8601. Will he be taking Wynken and Nod with him?
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  8602.  NBA HIGHLIGHTS  I was reminded of the children's poem 'Wynken, Blynken and Nod by Eugene Field.
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  8603.  Jimmy Jams  A feebie? What TV services can you get for free these days? Believe me socialists do not see the BBC as socialist or even near. They pretty well covered Boris's arse in the run up to the election by not showing some of the blunders he was making, even to the extent of showing a previous year's cenotaph ceremony instead of the latest mash up by Boris. He was often interviewed by Laura Keunssberg who is known to be a fan of his (or she was at the time).
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  8604.  @blaze1148  I don't know what country you are in, but in the USA the Coronavirus has killed more people than the worst recent year for flu deaths. Also surviving it doesn't necessarily mean that people won't live with some permanent damage. It's not over yet either.
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  8605.  @blaze1148  Who knows how long a terminally ill person or someone with a chronic disease would live if they did not have Covid? That's why they also use the 'excess' deaths figure for corroboration. Do you not know this?
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  8606.  @blaze1148  You can count people as dying from Covid if they are not in the process of dying when they catch Covid and it kills them. Covid often causes blood clots which cause thrombosis, strokes and heart attacks, and it often attacks vital organs. If it kills you a doctor is not going to say I'll put on the death certificate, as cause of death, the disease or condition you have that might otherwise have killed you in 3 months time, or a year or several years. That's not how death certificates work. Also in the UK, in the beginning, lots of people died of Covid who were never tested for it and whose death certificates would not mention it. These were people who died at home or in care homes because only hospitalised patients got the test at that time, so Covid deaths were largely undercounted than overcounted. I now refer you to my previous comment about excess death numbers as a corroborating measure.
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  8607.  @blaze1148  I didn't know all the stats but the death rate from Covid is definitely more than from normal flu in the USA. I think the highest number for deaths from flu in recent years in the USA was about 60,000. They are over 150,000 deaths from Covid now. The death rate in the UK is well above the average death rate over previous years. When I last looked the excess death rate was about 60,000 above the average. This suggests that in the UK the number of Covid deaths has been undercounted.
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  8608. I don't want to be negative. What you've achieved is brilliant, but it's been said that losing weight too fast can be dangerous or unsustainable. The body took a long time to put the weight on and will adapt better to a gradual reduction so you don't have to keep up that rapid rate of reduction. Don't completely starve yourself. Switch to healthier food and smaller portions. Walk regularly, not just for exercise but to occupy yourself and improve your mood. Avoid too much salt, fat and sugar.
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  8609. Only in your direction.
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  8610.  @garethkalum8297  Kicking is not standard practice. I can see them kicking.
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  8611. Trump admires people who are most like himself. Also, like most bullies, he can't stand up to people who are strong and he doesn't have the intelligence to challenge them face to face either.
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  8612. We have people in government who don't know what they are doing, don't listen to people that do, and have an ideology that supports idleness in government. Their ideology seems to be against planning for the future or planning for anything (too much of a socialist concept for them). Let the market sort everything out is their mantra.
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  8613. O my god they killed Kenny!
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  8614. Is that sleep-walking Britain?
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  8615.  Ian TB  They are not the establishment just because you've been told they are. The establishment - the ones that really run the country are not woke and not necessarily liberal. They are the ones that control the lives of the rest of us through their wealth and their power, but they have persuaded people to focus their ire on a portion of the population who are really just the middle class and the educated working class. Divide and rule.
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  8616.  J Mansfield  It sounds like a load of cobblers to me. What kind of minds think up this stuff?
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  8617. *couldn't care less
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  8618.  @flrpitflrp1965  You're welcome - not so much grammar patrol, but phrasing it like that means the opposite of what you intended, so you are letting her off the hook. I think she might actually care more than Trump though. He wasn't going to offer anything until he realised how unpopular it was making him, just before the election.
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  8619. It's interesting that he was expecting to go to school at age 13+. In the early 20th century ordinary children were still leaving school at age 14 to go to work. I think a lot of people would also like to know how life when he was young compared to life by the time this interview was filmed. Maybe this is just a short extract from a longer interview.
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  8620. Shakespeare was a dramatist not a historian
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  8621. I doubt it. The acting is good. You realise don't you that she is a manipulative character and her acting is meant to convey this to the audience. In this particular series of plays (The Hollow Crown) the actors have tried hard to make Shakespeare as understandable as they can for audiences who are perhaps unfamiliar with him and the language of his plays.
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  8622. Ignore the cross baiting. That's superficial. You're missing the fact that Labour have got in gear over the finances and their election mandate promises already. That seems pretty professional to me. The Tories didn't do much good over 14 years.
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  8623.  @davidcarroll3169  *you're. I think they were fairly decent to Trump given that the man makes a fool of himself each time he opens his mouth. In Ireland he didn't remember the name of the P.M. he was meeting and he thought they wanted a wall like the US. What an idiot. He then contradicted what he'd said when the Irish P.M indicated that he'd got the wrong end of the stick.
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  8624.  @rinaa6865  It's not propaganda you could actually see the words come out of his mouth. Name a President who is as ignorant as Trump? He clearly talks cobblers and knows nothing about the Irish border situation. Everything it always going to be good and fine and work out well, except that he said that about North Korea and China . They were his good friends and look how that turned out. It's all cobblers. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2019/jun/05/trump-compares-post-brexit-irish-border-issue-to-plans-for-us-mexico-wall-video
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  8625.  @davidcarroll3169  Bill who?
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  8626. @Shlomo Bergenstein No. I never believed Iraq had WMDs.
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  8627.  @shadejalik4769  Well that's just a prejudiced argument. Nothing to do with facts.
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  8628.  @shadejalik4769  Ah well, once you start ad hominem attacks you''ve lost the argument, since you've given up on everything except attacking the person.
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  8629.  @rinaa6865  He keeps saying that so many foreign dictators are his friends and how well he gets on with them and how good trade is going to be but in reality the doesn't improve relationships one bit,and a trade war won't necessarily benefit the US. I think his tearing up of the treaty with Iran is dangerous and could lead to conflict in the strait of Hormuz. O.K if the US is prepared to spend billions on war and send off many of its young men to be killed. The alternative is nuclear war which would kill even more people. He is trying to undermine Medicare, having failed to get it overturned in Congress, but it's your country, if that's what you want. I don't have to admire it though, do I?
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  8630. * Eugenie. Eugene is a boy's name.
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  8631.  @MrAP79  Maybe so, though I feel I have to try.
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  8632.  @wattage2007  No one is paralysed with fear except those believing bonkers conspiracy theories. Socialist probably take more notice of the science.
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  8633. Perhaps they are worried about being held responsible for genocide by the international community.
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  8634. Why pick on those in isolation?
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  8635.  @yorkshiremgtow1773  'Scandinavian countries have enjoyed an international reputation for combining generous welfare state entitlements with rapid economic growth, low unemployment and very high levels of labour force participation, particularly among women. '
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  8636.  @kincaidwolf5184  *than. Cameron is a Tory, not Labour. He wasn't a Blairite. Cameron's government was much crueller than Blair's.
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  8637. Do they biodegrade in the environment or last forever collecting at the bottom of oceans and entering the food chain?
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  8638. So you won't mind it in your back yard then?
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  8639.  @afghosting8772  That is a misunderstanding of feminism. Feminists want men and women to have an equal chance of playing roles and they do not expect more protection from men than they themselves would give, in give and take relationships.
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  8640.  @afghosting8772  You are generalising, which I did not. I did not say all women could do the same things as men or were identical to men, but that those who could and wished to should be given the opportunities to engage in some of the same activities. As it happens I have a much better sense of direction and map reading skills than my husband although he received more training in those things than me. In many areas now physical strength is not needed anyway, because technology has taken over from that. Every garden maintenance man I see now seems to mow lawns sitting on vehicles and gather leave with a leaf blower etc. In war most hand to hand combat is now avoided by long range weapons.
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  8641.  @afghosting8772  You still misunderstand. It's a generalised movement but it's not saying everyone is the same, only that they should have the same pay when they do the same jobs and have equal opportunities. That does not necessarily mean there will 50/50 split in every profession. Anyway I can't keep explaining to the hard of understanding, and I'm not alone. Note every male has the same views as you.
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  8642.  @afghosting8772  I'm not being superior. Not going to debate any more. Said my piece and not intending to upset anyone.
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  8643. er, um er, um, er. The presentation would be better without these.
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  8644. Not as awful as any given Tory.
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  8645.  @Moose.-vy5ye  It's possible he was a good administrator and a mafia type at the same time. Those were the times, dog eat dog, kill or be killed. He would not be the first to kill a related heir. King John killed Prince Arthur, Matilda and Stephen went to war over the crown. Richard II was killed by his cousin, Henry IV, Henry VI was killed under Edward IV's reign.
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  8646.  @andrewlilley3660  Yes we have the pressure of modern life but we also have the internet so it's quick and easy to look things up. Even a few decades ago people died who could be saved now thanks to medical advances. I do think people cared about their health in past centuries but they didn't have many choices. Often there would be someone around who knew about herbal medicine. Before health services were affordable, people used a lot of home made remedies. I remember my mother telling me about some of these - what they used for coughs, for jaundice and for poultices for various skin ailments. Still she lost a mother to cancer at age 55, a brother to rheumatic fever at age 21 and a sister who was less than 2 years old to a leg tumour.
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  8647. Stress can lower the immune system and sometimes there's a link between stress and cancer. They've had to put up with the shenanigans of the Sussexes for years now.
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  8648.  @paulmcmillan533  People other than those who have had the MRNA HIV vaccine can get Monkeypox. Anyone can get it.
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  8649.  @eclint  Which vax are you talking about? The Monkey Pox vax came after the disease. If you are referring to the Covid Vax why would it be mainly gay men getting Monkey Pox when the vax programme covered the wider population? It does not make sense.
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  8650.  @katalincatchpolenefister8954  If it was related to the Covid Vaccine, why is it predominantly spreading among gay men when a large percentage of the population has been vaccinated?
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  8651.  @lelaine61  I can't access Wikipedia US. I get the US page on Wikipedia UK. What is it you are alleging? The smallpox vaccine has been around for about 70 years and it eradicated smallpox.
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  8652.  @lelaine61  That's ridiculous. Everyone in my generation had a smallpox vaccination but that's very different from the demographic now suffering from Monkey Pox. There's no connection.
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  8653.  @lelaine61  Sorry I can't access the US wikipedia.
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  8654.  @lelaine61  I know its worldwide but my search engine must be programmed to take me to the English site as that's all it will do. That it now.
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  8655.  @hayleylongster4698  where do you get your evidence for that? If it was true, the problem would have resolved itself after lockdowns ended but there are even more vacancies in the NHS now..
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  8656.  @andrewjohn5951  Time is not long enough to list them. Do some research yourself.
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  8657.  @prasanamcdonald7991  Why?
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  8658. Damp squib not squid. A squib is a firework. A damp squib is one that fails to go off.
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  8659.  @amandamitchell8894  O.K That's to be determined but I was responding to someone who was quick enough to blame the parents of the 16 year old without knowing all the circumstances. We should wait and see the outcome when the evidence has been assessed.
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  8660.  @billgreen576 I wasn't saying a predator would recognise having responsibility. It would be seen that they were responsible by outsiders.
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  8661.  @tiesiai_per_aplinkui  It is illegal to 'smack' someone.
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  8662. @N S Brilliant actors then, producing those harrowing scenes day after day for so long and feeding in those stats. They must be spending millions trying to fool people - oh sorry, it's you who is the fool.
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  8663.  @fatbobe1986  I know you didn't mention India but I did because asked how cases have risen so I explained it to you. The NHS is not protected. We could easily spiral into a situation where it's overwhelmed if precautions to avoid a spread of the new variant are not taken.
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  8664.  @SilvinaLisboa  You could google that and it would tell you that 'Before the arrival of Islam in the 7th century, there were a number of religions practiced in ancient Afghanistan, including Zoroastrianism, Surya worship, Paganism, Hinduism and Buddhism.'
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  8665. @Blair Morpeth You can vote in democracy and if enough of your fellow voters agree with you, you can change the government, change the philosophy, change the laws and the policies. Also you are not governed according to strict religious codes because there is a separation of church and state. That's the difference. However there is quite a lot of money invested in undermining democracy in favour of the views of the wealthy elite.
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  8666.  @mustafajalal1941  Yes, everyone should learn to progress beyond bloody histories and bloody rule.
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  8667.  @mustafajalal1941  I agree, but that's capitalism USA style. Democracy in itself is not bad. I mean the USA is pulling out of Afghanistan because Biden won't get elected again if he's pursuing that war. The voting public don't support it.
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  8668.  @mustafajalal1941  P.S. If you remember though, the USA went into Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks on the USA. They seemed to think that Afghanistan was a source of terrorism or was harbouring terrorists.
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  8669. @Blair Morpeth No I think laundering was a part of it.
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  8670. @Blair Morpeth Only because people vote for those. They don't have to. Democracy is not perfect but it's better than the alternatives.
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  8671. Disgusting crime. Whatever the police recover should be returned to victims. (Victims of a crime not victims to a crime. Sheesh. The use of prepositions these days seems so random).
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  8672. There are some accidents from activities only wealthy people can afford. Were these trips ever risk assessed I wonder? What was the escape plan in event of a problem? I read that they went out on a 'window' of good weather. If the weather conditions were that hazardous, they should not have gone. A window doesn't necessarily leave time for a rescue. Why didn't 'customers' think of this before taking a trip. What a horrible way to die, if that is the case.
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  8673.  matt eppich  Here's some better candidates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6YE4PCRNwc The Donald obviously prefers Camberwick Green to Trumpton.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqtIl3dIQMs
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  8674. She was there to see Cher
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  8675. Berengaria of Navarre not Navirre.
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  8676. That's because she's not.
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  8677. Reformists can't usually manage more than one or two words.
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  8678. So the next question is (or should be) how would Donald Trump prevent WW3? Would he let Putin take Ukraine by stopping support to Ukraine?
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  8679.  @skinnytinny9023  She's not accountable to the Tory press for her personal tax affairs. That would be a bad precedent to set. She's only accountable to HMRC.
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  8680. Is he more annoying than Toby Young though?
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  8681. It takes a lot to run a country for an incompetent corrupt regime. Some were military, some were trainers of the Afghan military and Afghan police, some would have been experts dealing with technology and the infrastructure, some would have been translators or helping the military in other ways, some would have been Afghani born people with British passports visiting family in Afghanistan, some may be Afghani army personnel themselves.
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  8682. He used to be the Secretary of State for Health so he thinks he knows a lot.
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  8683. November the 3rd, expel the turd.
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  8684.  @eliakimjosephsophia4542  I doubt that it's architects that will stop it as architects rely on new building to earn a living and often work for developers. It takes local people to get involved and not just one or two but in numbers. I think one problem is that it's unpaid work (though expenses may be claimed) and many people don't have the time to commit to it or can't afford to.
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  8685. Question: Which country still speaks Latin? Answer: The Vatican.
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  8686.  @brothermitchlove1  Putin was the one that put his troops on the Ukraine border first. Putin was the one who invaded Ukraine and seized Crimea. Putin was the one wh encouraged Belarus invite immigrants and then dump them on the Polish border.
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  8687.  @brothermitchlove1  True, but 2 wrongs don't make a right, and don't count me in the 'we', as I never voted for any of that. The only ones I would defend is putting troops in Germany after WW2 and intervening to stop Serbia's attempted genocide against Bosnian muslims. I'm not saying the west has always been morally better than Russia or the Soviet Union. I'm saying when it's wrong, it's wrong whoever is doing it. It's not a question of taking sides for patriotc reasons. It's a question of calling out wrongdoing when it happens, whoever is doing it.
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  8688.  @danielkurtovic9099  Russia invaded Crimea before the referendum took place. Would it be o.k for Finland to take back its lost lands from Russia in the same way now?
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  8689.  @mynameismyname7795  They may be at higher risk not necessarily because they are BAME but because as a group, they are highly represented among key workers who worked through the pandemic, they may live in poorer circumstances in more crowded accommodation where it's hard to self distance - lots of reasons. Apparently the worst BAME Covid death rates are among South East Asians and South East Asians have a higher rate of diabetes which is a high risk factor for Covid death. That may be from genetic predisposition or from diet.
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  8690.  sunshineuk1965  Or perhaps science rather than conspiracy thinking.
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  8691.  @secretbillionaire463  Covid causes organ damage which kills.
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  8692.  @secretbillionaire463 True. Your point is?
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  8693.  @Team_Banchamek  How do you know that they die of something that has nothing to do with Covid? How do you expect Covid to kill people? What would be the signs? It destroys people's organs and that's what kills them - could be lungs, heart, kidney or liver failure.
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  8694.  @Firitesen  Well surely this info is coming from medics not from journalists making things up? That would not be news.
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  8695.  @mrbishooo3781  Just to clarify. When people die from the damage caused by Covid, it's perfectly valid to say that Covid was the cause of death.
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  8696.  @mrbishooo3781  Yes but they wouldn't necessarily die of them quickly without Covid causing more damage. Usually there's an explanation on death certificates. They would not just say Covid but something like heart attack caused by Covid (but in more medical terms). As I said before, if we don't keep track on death certificates of Covid as a cause, how are we going to track and prevent Covid which does hasten deaths? I have diabetes. I've had it for 10 years. I could live with it for another 20 years or more but if I caught Covid it could kill me within days. It would be valid to include Covid as a cause of death on my death certificate.
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  8697. There's no need for the word 'why' after the word 'hence.' There's no need for the word 'over' before the word 'exaggeration' either.
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  8698. Douglas Todd Whereas Farage and the ERG are out and out maniacs.
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  8699.  @stephensmith2937  I don't think he can win. As he got 3 million votes fewer than Hilary Clinton when he did 'win', he's only going to get less and less as his reputation has declined, and is the electoral college really going to put the coup attempter, fraudster and liar back in?
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  8700. Peter Hitchens earns a living as a contrarian. England may well be happy to leave the UK, but the other UK countries would be even happier, the way things are going. However there's much more in common between the 4 nations than there are differences. It would be a pity to give up that unity. It's just that England has tended to dominate and treat the other 3 neglectfully or unfairly.
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  8701.  @jacquelineloaring2438  That's the fault of the English because they get what they vote for. The Scots, Welsh and NI don't get extra money for being devolved governments. They just make different choices about what to spend it on. They spend it on their people. The Tories care more about the rich in England than the rest of the population.
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  8702. You have to be an idiot to believe the spin on this channel. Where is the evidence that Fiona Bruce has been cancelled? Viewers complained by about Fiona Bruce playing down the seriousness of spousal abuse. Fiona Bruce said 'it only happened once according to Stanley Johnson's friends'. HOWEVER Stanley Johnson's wife is on written record as saying that he beat her many times throughout their marriage and that Boris saw that happening (so Boris was aware, of it when he nominated his father for a knighthood).
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  8703. Don't blame the NHS. For years they were pressurised to outsource as many services as possible. That was government policy to 'save costs'.
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  8704.  Bill Platers  If Nigel Farage told you to jump off a cliff would you do it?
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  8705. @Ford TorinoNo, I don't think a civilised conversation with this guy is possible. I was just amusing myself by trying to annoy him. Bad of me, I know.
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  8706. Ha!
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  8707.  @ishaks8152  I can't see that any country benefitted but some were better at protecting themselves than others.
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  8708.  @Same1689hfrh  Until recently your case stats were looking a lot better than ours. I thought the USA had cracked it. Now it looks like the case stats have crept up again. What a shame. I don't understand why politicians get everyone to do all the hard work, over a long time, to control it and then suddenly abandon everything they've done. It should be a more gradual easing back. Good luck. We in the UK are going down the same route as you in the US, and at the moment our case stats are worse than yours though our population is only a 5th of the size. Our death stats aren't as bad though, thanks to the success of the vaccine programme.
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  8709.  @Same1689hfrh  We are all guinea pigs in an experiment now - to see what happens when all restraints are removed after a large proportion of the population has been vaccinated, though Covid cases are increasing now.
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  8710.  @Same1689hfrh  Good luck. Stay safe.
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  8711. It's what the Tories always wanted.
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  8712.  @scottlenharth4200  Strange that prominent Labour leaders get criticised for not being one of the people if they are well educated, but if they are seen as one of the people they are 'thick'. Plenty in the government are thick in spite of an expensive education, but they have the confidence to cover it up, superficially. That's the main thing their education gives them, that confidence and teaching them how to make ever more money for little effort.
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  8713. ? Literally translated it was 'Well, I never' but I don't think that's a French expression. It's a literal translation of English.
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  8714. There should be a comment in the title after Brexit to avoid the appearance that Brexit is mocking Andrew Neil.
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  8715. The Tory Party always did like blood sports.
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  8716.  @qetoun  I know that. It's not my point. My point is that leaving the ECHR paves the way for getting rid of or changing the HR Act should the government choose to do so.
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  8717.  @qetoun  Judicial activism? The ECHR is there to uphold the act. Why would any reasonable government wish to ignore it or leave it unless they wished to ignore or abolish the act?
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  8718.  @Kris_1708  He does pander. He is a loudmouth rabble rouser pandering to people's ignorance and prejudices. There must be enough intelligent voters to keep him out, that's all.
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  8719. The accusation of fake news is more often the fake thing.
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  8720. Were there shoppers inside?
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  8721. Vs Lying demented, self interested Trump. Senile but honest and achieving doesn't seem so bad when viewed in that light.
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  8722.  @bikedawg  Yes, but as Biden says, he's not good at debating any more but he knows how to tell the truth, unlike Trump who told plenty of lies during the debate but there was no fact checking.
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  8723.  @MASTERJJ1995  What a stupid comment.
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  8724.  @joelbuckley1174  It's semitic not semetic and if you think the Tories share your interests you are mistaken. They care only about furthering the interests of the rich. There is no single interest of this country. There are the interests of the rich and amy of the rest are just persuaded that their interests are the same but they are not.
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  8725.  @joelbuckley1174  Corbyn believes in peace and if you read the last Labour manifesto you'll see he has a lot of proposals for sorting out the problems in the UK which the Tories do not bother about. I don't share Corbyn's views on defence but I applaud his desire to do everything to maintain or create peace. The Tories have no interest in about 70% of the people of England. If they cared about England they would not be allowing and encouraging our housing and businesses to be sold off to foreign investors, multi-nationals and money launderers. Do you not know what's going on under that pretence of patriotism or are you ignorant about it?
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  8726. More living than many of the couch potatoes watching, I'd guess.
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  8727. The Department of Health always tried to restrain drug prices by limiting the profits to a certain level but drug companies always fiddle their accounts to hide the profits by transferring or attributing them elsewhere. I think there was a court case once and DH lost. Drug companies are hoping they can push their prices up to American levels once we Brexit. It needs the government to restrain them or alternatively invest in national drug companies. Drug companies are loathe to invest in treatments for rare diseases because it's expensive and the customer base is too small for them to make a profit or to make one without charging ridiculous prices, but a nationalised body could do it.
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  8728. That slimy snake!
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  8729. So they sit around moaning all day and the media spends its time moaning about them. Lol.
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  8730. She hasn't a clue.
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  8731. The average pay in Ireland is still a lot more than in the UK
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  8732. I think they'll be assessing the proof, most of which has been provided by Trump himself.
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  8733.  @Andrea-lq8so  That's a misunderstanding. MPs are representatives not delegates. Representatives can exercise their own judgement based on evidence and circumstances before them. They are meant to act in the interests of their constituents and they do that sometimes by protecting them from job losses and economic devastation even if their constituents have voted for job losses and economic devastation because they haven't seen all the available information or don't understand it. A Referendum is advisory not mandatory.
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  8734. No one can. The EU will not budge. Theresa May has already been through that process. We are heading for a 'no deal' by default now.
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  8735.  SEEK THE TRUTH!  You surely don't believe that? There's nothing after death. You need to make the most of life.
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  8736.  @reasonerenlightened2456  It saves on energy costs of cooking. I think if people work they feel entitled to a little treat now and again otherwise what are they working for? Also people who work long hours may not always have time for shopping and cooking.
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  8737.  @reasonerenlightened2456  What, you mean laws that protect against theft? What are you getting at here? People work to live and to get some satisfaction from it if they possibly can. They also work if they were not born with a large inheritance.
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  8738. You don't have a chit because a chit is a young woman or girl so a chit chat is a chat between young women I guess.
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  8739. It's funny the way Americans pronounce the word boroughs like burrows (homes of small mammals)
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  8740. I like choccies too.
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  8741.  @rareads  Tell that to those who chose to live in Spain because of the benefits of doing so.
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  8742. If he doesn't have the answer (the technical solutions for instance) for preventing AI taking over, who does have the solution? Even if there's international agreement about this, will there be capability to achieve it when AI is smarter than us, smarter than its inventors?
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  8743. You would have to pay if you flew to the UK for treatment if you are not a UK citizen but its' likely it would still be cheaper.
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  8744. Rupert Murdoch's propaganda channel.
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  8745. 'It's hard to understand the reasonings of post office executives'. Well the government wanted to privatise the post office at the time and the revelation that the software system was not fit for purpose would have scuppered private sector interest in that. The post office was barely profitable at the time.
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  8746.  @SH-op9hc  You're being a bit premature there. I hope you're not premature in everything.
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  8747.  @stevehardy3680  Because the 'evidence' the cops collected was not sufficient. The cops did not do a good job. The CPS has to decide whether there is sufficient evidence to proceed.
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  8748.  @stevehardy3680  I agree that the BBC did not do a good job in the Saville case or in the case of Cliff Richard (though these were opposite actions) but it's the CPS's job not to send cases to court that don't have enough evidence to have a chance of conviction, and the fact that they may have let other such cases through (I don't know of any), means they were not doing their job. It doesn't mean they were wrong in the Savile case, though a lot more came to light later after Savile died. It's the police's job to gather the evidence.
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  8749.  @stevehardy3680  Because there wasn't enough evidence to secure a conviction. The CPS decided that. Though Starmer was the head, at the time, he didn't get involved. The Head of the CPS does not get involved in every case. That's not his role. There are others employed to make those decisions.
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  8750. So how many people do you think you've spread the virus to?
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  8751.  @dointhediamondsign9011  Not very respectful to your parents then. If the rest of the country followed your example we could have ended up like India with the health service overwhelmed and people dying on the streets.
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  8752. @Doris Johnson You don't like to hear opinions that do not agree with your own I see. There must be comfort in never having to seriously think.
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  8753.  @dickbanger8924  What a mindless comment.
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  8754. @Doris Johnson I don't support the government and I don't trust it 100% except when it follows the science. I trust the science though. At the same time, I understand that our scientific knowledge is still developing with this pandemic. I already had a cancer operation in 2020. It was delayed by a few months.
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  8755. I don't understand this. I received a text saying I'd be sent an appointment for a Covid vaccine (in due course), so I'm not sure why such queues should be necessary.
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  8756.  @daftwod  You made that last bit up. Why not tell the truth yourself? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_mainland_China
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  8757.  @daftwod  I only get the funny ones.
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  8758.  @daftwod  Never mind dear, You'll get better with practice.
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  8759.  @daftwod  Stop being paranoid. In the end countries have economic power. There aren't really pure communist countries. Russia changed from communism to capitalism and China is more of a hybrid between communism and capitalism. The problem with those countries is that they are not democratic but I think another global war would wipe us all out or at the very least it would destroy any democracy in the world. Don't go down that route.
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  8760.  @felenti4956  O.K I've deleted my post now.
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  8761. @Dr Wolfgang Chausser Or to put it another way, 'trying to save lives'.
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  8762.  @ams-pw7ms  They didn't have enough tests to identify the infected. In the early stages you can do that and they were trying to do that but once the numbers get beyond what they can do they had no choice. It would be the only way to control it. They should have scanned people coming from abroad but they didn't. Most countries with rising numbers of cases had to go into lockdown. South Korea was able to keep on top of testing.
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  8763. You can tell he's Italian descent by the way he uses his hands. The way he pronounced the words true and booed is very unusual (like trow and bowed). What accent does that come from?
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  8764. * Many people not multiple people.
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  8765. You know in those Westerns when the 'Quack doctor' comes round to sell snake oil as a 'cure all' to the people and the viewers think 'how could they be so gullible.............?'
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  8766.    No, but there are quacks who offer snake oil in elections and Referendums.
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  8767. Probably the least of worries.
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  8768.  @darrenleake3343  If you told them to boil your heads, should they do it? The status of a Referendum is advisory not mandatory. All the facts were not known at the time. Now that they are clearer and it's known how they will affect lots of people's jobs and livelihoods, it's democratic to test the will of the people again in light of this knowledge. In the 2017 general election, the Tory party, who said they would deliver Brexit, did not get a working majority. How Brexit is delivered was never fully discussed before the Referendum. That's a very important issue because the damage to the economy needs to be minimised. The only parties to date which are clearly Remain parties are the Lib Dems and The Greens (but the Greens only have 1 MP) and the SNP which follows the result of the Referendum vote in Scotland.
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  8769.  @darrenleake3343  But you don't know what the will of the people is now after knowing more about the facts. Politicians will try to protect their constituents, even though some constituents may be turkeys that vote for Christmas.
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  8770.  @darrenleake3343  The status of all Referendums, cosntitutionally is 'advisory' no matter what they said. However they didn't say how they would enact it did they? They didn't say it would be a no deal exit. In fact the leave Manifesto pages 3 and 30 suggested that we would have a deal when we left.
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  8771.  @darrenleake3343  That's like saying when an election is held the result stands for all time. You may have voted to self destruct but I'm not sure all leavers did. If you think the EU is militant ( I would say self-protective) you'll have seen nothing until we get outside of the EU and see how 'militant' the rest of the world is, especially the USA. They will be squeezing us in deals too, though it can take a long time for trade deals to be negotiated. I fear leavers are babes in the wood (naive innocents) in political and trade terms .
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  8772. Decentralise the FBI so they are easier to pressurise and corrupt locally? Conservatives are prone to saying that they are the party of law and order (except when they are the ones breaking the law).
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  8773. Don't judge on appearances alone. This is Shakespeare - much better than Philippa Gregory.
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  8774.  @ronnieince4568  I don't think it was 'always the case'. There was no dual nationality before 1922 as Ireland was part of the British Empire. There was no Irish nationality then.
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  8775. Has Trump ever apologised for anything ever? Will he keep sacking people until he finds people willing to ignore the constitution?
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  8776. I don't know if it's relevant to the name but it's often recommended to place straw under strawberries to keep the slugs off.
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  8777. I'm sure the police or the inquiry will attempt to establish with Boris what his diary entries mean.
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  8778. Lol.
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  8779. mafia style tactics. I hope he will be impeached but who will have the nerve to do it.
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  8780. The Victorian drainage system is unable to cope with these volumes of water and the ground can't soak it up either as so much of it is concreted over.
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  8781. Blackberries look that colour before they are ripe. I don't think it's a raspberry. They are more squishy looking.
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  8782. Never count chickens before they hatch. It's bad luck.
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  8783. How is it that these ruthless owners can fake sincerity so well? I used to think it weird, when I learned more about American sports, that teams would sometimes up sticks, move halfway across the country and change their name. I thought how can they do that? Doesn't it upset their fan base and lose them fans? But in the States it's all about the search for profitable returns and bought success. That's what fans have become accustomed to now. To me that's not the same as football/soccer, but you could see how it could head that way with the ESL. Before long they'd be calling it the World Super League and basing it in the States, then getting rid of the offside rule to make it more 'exciting' for fans and gamblers and easier for American (less skilled) players to succeed. Then we'd get celebrity acts and cheerleaders to replace atmosphere and the missing genuine spontaneous fan responses. Then it's not our sport any more.
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  8784. Don't be silly. Is it snowflakes that are causing a cost of living crisis? That stuff is just a distraction.
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  8785. They both want to be the winner in the balance of trade with each other but as we know only one can succeed in that. I know which one my money is on.
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  8786. Some people would say he's an idiot.
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  8787. I have some half siblings whose mother's maiden name is Gillen. The family comes originally from an area of Ireland near Lough Gill. What they have in common with Aidan Gillen, apart from good looks, is that nice hair that is thicker than average - no baldness or receding hairlines in that family :-)
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  8788.  @billykimbah2528  Youtube doesn't show dislikes on comments but you can dislike a page.
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  8789.  @gowdsake7103  Yes I've seen lots on the flights. Do you not look at the news pages online?
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  8790. I never found Jim Carrey very funny - all that gurning and trying too hard with poor material. There was a sense of desperation. Same with Robin Williams.
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  8791. An independent way to check the Covid death figure is via an 'excess deaths' figure e.g. comparing registered deaths from all causes over the Covid period with the average deaths over the same period in previous recent years. The number of deaths above the previous years average is the 'excess deaths' figure. The excess deaths figure is the number that is largely caused by Covid 19. At the time this was done in the UK the official Covid deaths figure was approx 45,000 and the excess deaths figure was 60,000. This seemed to validate the Covid deaths figure and if anything suggest it was undercounted, which was probably so at the time, because only people who were taken to hospital were tested for Covid. Many elderly people dying in care homes were not tested for Covid. Care homes generally got Covid from elderly patients being returned to homes from hospitals with Covid, without being tested.
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  8792.  @someinteresting  O.K. but smiley faces could relate to the way he spoke rather than conveying a sense of irony about the term 'English accent'. It's Hugh Grant not Hugh Grand, but that's enough from me.
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  8793.  @someinteresting  I had something to say and I also looked at spelling.
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  8794.  @someinteresting  *smiley
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  8795.  @someinteresting  *spelling
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  8796. People might tell you they didn't know x y or z were fraud or crimes, but I bet they did.
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  8797. It's about the influence of Shakespeare still in the modern world
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  8798.  @Abhisekhdutta  Was Tata poor then?
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  8799.  @LazyBrownWizard  Take that as read.
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  8800.  @KARMA-jr6uk  Not my ancestors. They were Irish and therefore the looted not the looters, but should all winners of wars compensate the losers for the effects of the loss. Wars were a constant in history and how far back should that process go? Should Indian sects compensate other Indian sects for inter-racial violence?
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  8801. Stokescotty It's not dead. It's very much alive. It's just difficult because of the numbers in Parliament from the last election and because ours is an adversarial system rather than a system of proportional representation where people are used to making deals.
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  8802. @N Dc The rich are the ones whose interests the Tories have at heart so they would be the Wolves and the rest are the sheep.
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  8803.  @osmosisjones4912  *second hand
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  8804. He causes so much chaos and death, Yeah hilarious.
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  8805. Victor Carter. They don't have to tell them anything. They are living on a strip of land subject to an economic blockade ever since they were kicked off their land by the Israelis with huge levels of unemployment and no hope. They are not even allowed to leave. They are desperate enough to risk death in order to protest. Israel claims to be a democracy but doesn't allow democratic rights such as the right to protest without being killed. The day of Trump's self congratulatory opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem, is the day that Palestinians remember the loss of their land by force. He couldn't have chosen a more inflammatory day. All the options for peaceful resolution on the table, involved the sharing of Jerusalem. Trump has blown those options out of the water. He's like a bull in a china shop. What would you do if you were a Palestinian?
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  8806. Bob Hager It's not a Muslim hatred of Jews. It's a Palestinian hatred of the policies of Israel.
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  8807. Bob Hager. I didn't say it wasn't hatred. I said it wasn't about Muslims hating Jews for being Jews. It's about Palestinians hating Israel for stealing their land and trapping them in a small strip of land (Gaza) which they subject to an economic blockade.
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  8808. Bob Hager. That comment shows you don't understand anything of the history of the region and current situation of Palestinians.
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  8809. Bob Hager. I believe in a God who has promised me your land. Please leave your land immediately or be forced out by violence. I have God on my side so you can't complain can you? I will also reject all attempts at any compromise solutions so we can share the land by agreement. I will take better care of your land than you and prosper more because maximising prosperity matters to me. All of this justifies me taking your land and Trump is now on my side, so be quiet or be shot. By the way, most of the international community say that what I am doing is illegal but I take no notice of that, I just develop nuclear weapons to intimidate anyone who disagrees with me. P.S I am fearful of revenge now that I've taken your land so I am going to lock you up somewhere with no prospects of escape and no means of gaining the resources to oppose me. It was my ancestors who contacted and wrote about this God who said I could have your land.
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  8810. Rob Donaldson. You have been swallowing too much Trump and Israeli propaganda. It was a protest. Palestinian people have enough grievances to protest about without being "controlled" by anyone. Their land was taken off them. They are imprisoned on the Gaza Strip under economic blockade. They are not allowed to leave or to thrive. There is high unemployment as a result and no hope for the future. The Israeli government does not want to negotiate peace because it does not want to compromise over land and it continues to build settlements that are regarded as illegal by the majority of the world. If the Palestinians protest they are shot, although protest is meant to be allowed in democratic systems and the Israeli government prides itself on being a "democracy". The Israeli government is full of cant and hypocrisy.
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  8811. Bob Hager. You are right that it was the United Nations that created Israel. They adopted a plant to partition Palestine, at the time, to create a Jewish state and an Arab state. This is where the term Palestinians comes from. I understand the need, following the events of WW2, for there to be a homeland for Jews where they could feel safe. I think there could have been negotiated settlements by now had there been the will to do so but following partition Israel has continued to expand to occupy Arab lands and farms illegally and to build illegal settlements and then to imprison Palestinians on the Gaza strip and introduce an economic blockade. Interestingly the West Bank which is Arab or mainly Arab, co-operates with Israel but the risk is now that they may withdraw their co-operation. Trump really is like a bull in a china shop when it comes to foreign policy.
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  8812. @BM It's not any old ID for voting. It's very specific.
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  8813.  @chudchadanstud  They weren't handing it out were they? There was an application system for those who knew and could be bothered.
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  8814.  @ty194  Because that age group already includes a lot of non voters and introducing more hurdles to jump over will just make that worse.
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  8815.  @ty194  If you look at news articles, a lot of voters were turned away - people who were bothered enough to turn up to vote. Those who are not bothered will hardly be encouraged to by an extra barrier. It didn't save the Tories as they might have hoped, but it soured the election process.
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  8816. Renewable electricity has already overtaken fossil fuel produced energy in the UK. The energy form with the biggest risks and biggest toxic waste problem is nuclear. Nuclear waste's radioactivity does decay, but plutonium has a half life of 24,000 years. The high costs and risks of nuclear power plants are always passed onto the public purse or people's electricity bills and the technology for the latest ones is not properly developed so a lot of cost may be wasted without the plants ever being completed. If a nuclear plant blows, the disaster for the ecosystem would be far more widespread for far longer and would permanently damage the DNA of people living in the affected areas. Sellafield nuclear power plant, which used to be called 'Windscale' has had a number of dangerous leaks which the public in the past were never informed about at the time.
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  8817. Are Trump's threats against Russia, just empty words for PR purposes?
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  8818. Research published in 'Public Health' found that in early May, at the height of the pandemic deaths, only 18 percent of people with Covid symptoms self-isolated properly and only 11% quarantined properly after being in contact with a confirmed case.
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  8819. Is there some error? Try another company. I don't think British Gas is the cheapest. To be fair the retail companies don't make that much money and that's why so many are going bust. It's the wholesale companies they are buying energy from that are making a killing. That's why a windfall tax should be levied on them more often and used to lower consumer bills.
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  8820.  @Pobotrol  I don't think she's being dishonest. This is about timing and double dealing. I think, when she announced this, she had heard about it in the press leaked by the Labour Party, and that was before Starmer said she'd not been banned. The speculation is that she'd agreed privately to go voluntarily with dignity if they returned her Labour Party membership, but then they humiliated her by announcing to the press that she was being banned from standing, but we don't know what was actually said behind closed doors. I wonder what they'll do now. They still have to announce their decision.
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  8821.  @itsPenguinBoy  I believe there will likely be a decision next week from what Starmer said about the process but if he thinks it will go down well with local voters and members to parachute in from outside, a Starmer loyalist at the last minute then he's not thinking too well. Candidates rely on local party members to do the campaigning to get them elected or re-elected. Will they do it for a Starmer interloper? Will the voters be prepared to switch their loyalties after what's happened to Abbot and after 37 years of her winning elections there with a large majority.
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  8822.  @Pobotrol  It's their own fault. They lost control of the story and they need to clarify quickly now. They have also recently got rid of 2 other left wing MPs right in the run up to the election, so this is not an isolated case. In Diane's case her disciplinary case was decided by the part hierarchy 5 months ago but she wasn't told. She was kept in suspense for all that time. They could have been open then and also made the decision then about whether she could stand or not.
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  8823.  @Pobotrol  It's too early to say. She'll have to wait until it is confirmed to her. As Starmer said. 'No decision has yet been made'. I expect it to be made next week judging by what he said about the process, but it's not yet certain she can stand. He has stated that he wants 'the best candidates' though he also tried to distance himself from the decision making process.
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  8824. Decanus. There were actually some black people in Europe. The Romans had certainly brought black people into Italy. It was fashionable to have black servants. The Moors had also invaded southern Spain though as rulers they were later forced out. There must have been some others judging by the artwork. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=black+people+in+medieval+times&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjqmKLCxYLZAhUGD8AKHUeRBrEQ_AUICigB&biw=1924&bih=954#imgrc=D0HwB96Yvn-eoM: and Shakespeare wrote about Othello (subtitled The Moor of Venice).
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  8825. Decanus Gaius Publius. Sorry I couldn't be bothered writing it all out in full.
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  8826. Decanus Gaius Publius. Romans had black people in the army and also as gladiators. There have been skeletons in England from Roman times (as the Romans invaded England) that have been DNA analysed and found to have origins from Africa. This is all a bit of a distraction. I'm not saying that Margaret was black but why can't some black actors have a bit of fun with Shakespeare? Are we so precious that we can't cope with that?
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  8827. Here's a find. Google images of Alessandro De Medici, Duke of Florence. Here is his wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_de%27_Medici,_Duke_of_Florence
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  8828. It saves lives, and where we retreat, China will step in and acquire contracts for aid. Our influence in the world will diminish, but, hey, we are just a little island aren't we?
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  8829.  @mypointofview1111  I don't believe in bogeymen but I do take an interest in history, economics, politics and current affairs. Neither of those 2 are paper tigers. They are authoritarian, murderous and anti-democratic regimes. Russia is also run by a kleptocracy. They constantly attack Western IT networks, and imprison any dissenters at home.
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  8830. What an entitled cry baby
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  8831.  @clitflicker9769  But she never will as the aim of the monarchy is to stay away from politics and political controversy.
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  8832. Other countries trying to reason with Trump with Merkel taking the lead. Trump impervious to reason.
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  8833. That would be Nicole.
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  8834. Mazarin is not pronounced Mazareen. The t in Huguenot is not pronounced.
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  8835.  @honeybadger9425  How will 'overhauling the NHS' provide the extra beds and staffing that the government allowed to reduce so much over its years in government and provide the equipment for handling Covid that was of the right quality, when the government was prepared to waste so much money on ineffective equipment and useless measures such as tack and trace? It's the government that needs to go.
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  8836.  @honeybadger9425  I know what the word 'overhaul' means and I knew before I posted my comment.
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  8837.  @honeybadger9425  Overhaul also means 'to completely change a system so that it works more effectively. The Tories have several times changed the NHS system in major reorganisations but it they have hindered rather than helped the NHS and cost them a lot of money.
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  8838.  @honeybadger9425  Look up some facts. When Labour left power in 2010 the NHS had the shortest waiting lists ever and the highest patient satisfaction survey results. The damage to the NHS is always caused under the Tories. Also it's not been going backwards for decades. In the 2000s I had cancer treatment but no cancer patients got scan checks for cancer spread in those times. Now I have had multiples scans for cancer spread. All patients with cancer are checked like that now. I can see why costs have gone up. Partly it's because there is an ageing population and partly because more treatments and tests are now offered to patients. Privatisation of some services has had an impact too as money is siphoned off in profits.
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  8839.  @honeybadger9425  To say that without looking at the evidence is just prejudice. I'm focussed on important evidence which you don't seem to have checked. I also worked in the Department of Health when Labour was in power and when the Conservatives were in power. I saw what went on and the difference in motivation, investment and outcomes.
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  8840.  @honeybadger9425  You have no logic. Losing beds would logically make waiting times longer not shorter Their view was that the development of technology such as laparsocopy would allow more people to be treated as day cases rather than as inpatients and they organised more care in the community rather than in hospitals. They also arranged some short term contracts with private hospitals to reduce waiting lists for specific operations such as knee and hip replacements and cataract surgery. Probably no party really prepared enough for an ageing population (the Tories not at all), but I've had enough now of discussing things with an ignorant and prejudiced person who just wants to stay ignorant and prejudiced.
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  8841.  @honeybadger9425  I do agree that too many beds were cut and there were not enough to cope with Covid. Both parties are responsible for bed cuts but at least one was trying to provide alternative ways of treating people as far as they could foresee. In 2010 an epidemic such as Covid was not foreseen but the Tories were warned to prepare for one by about 2014 by creating a plan and stocking up on PPE. They did neither.
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  8842. WTO Brexit is not a surprise to anyone following events. There isn't time to negotiate a trade deal with the EU even if Boris wanted to which he doesn't. Boris has always wanted a hard (no deal) Brexit as that benefits the wealthy most. Boris and the EU may agree a few narrow things in that time and Boris may call it a 'Deal' for PR reasons. No country in the world relies solely on WTO trade terms because it's like the 4th division of trading. The want deals with other countries because that's the Premier League of Trading. In any case Boris has already signalled that he doesn't want a deal by removing EU workers rights and environmental standards from the mandatory part of his withdrawal agreement with the EU, and he dropped them from the Brexit Bill. Putting pressure on the EU will not work. It has not worked in the past or so far. The integrity of the EU is more important to the EU than loss of trade with the UK. We will not be poor masters or rich servants. We will be poor servants of Boris and Trump and their ilk.
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  8843. There's no resemblance between the Spartacus TV series and history, so how would a history buff be able to present that?
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  8844.  @blowingfree6928  I suppose so. Braveheart is closer to the history than Spartacus is though. It's about William Wallace who really existed and fought against the English and was executed by them. The Patriot is a fictional story about fictional characters I think, though set against a historical background.
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  8845. Palestinians are not religious fundamentalists. They just want their freedom in a free state.
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  8846.  @scottishlisa3463  You can't get out of it that easily. The number of hungry kids in poverty has grown since the Conservatives have been in power. Gordon Brown when Labour were in power took many kids out of poverty (500,000 I think)
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  8847.  @dannyjames1676  * couldn't've or couldn't have (of is a preposition not a verb)
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  8848. People need to define what they mean by liberal or liberals when they use the word. There is economic liberalism which is about free market capitalism and free trade and there is social liberalism which is about social tolerance and freedoms. These 2 forms of liberalism do not necessarily overlap in people's views.
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  8849.  @templarknight5557  You really do make silly assumptions about people don't you? Quite amusing. I've lived in the north, the midlands and the south of England and I grew up in a working class family but I pay attention to science and statistics too.
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  8850. I was just thinking the same thing and I'm really not a violent person.
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  8851. It's pronounced Vive (one syllable) not Viva.
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  8852. Living next to bigots would be stressful also and plenty of English people have bad English neighbours whom they don't get along with.
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  8853. You can't herd cats.
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  8854. Anyone can see they're not fake.
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  8855.  @faragemadeyourfuture9860  Civil servants are loyal by virtue of the nature of the job and their code of practice. They were even efficient in executing cuts to their own numbers and reductions in their own terms and conditions. If by 'loyal' you mean 'partisan', that would not be right as they are meant to be neutral and serve the government of the day - not be 'political'
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  8856.  @faragemadeyourfuture9860  Not loyal to the EU. Only recognising that we were part of the EU until we were out of it. The employment tribual will decide on the constructive dismissal allegation.
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  8857.  @faragemadeyourfuture9860  Johnson would not recognise neutral if it hit him in the face. He doesn't like any criticism and shied away from tough TV interviews unlike other party leaders.
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  8858.  @faragemadeyourfuture9860  We'll see how it pans out.
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  8859.  @faragemadeyourfuture9860  The decision to halt no deal planning was communicated to the civil service by Mark Sedwill, Cabinet Secretary, and was done in the time of Theresa May's Premiership when the deadline for agreement was extended and that move was endorsed by the government of the day. The government and civil service have to decide when to put resources and money into things as well as whether. They are not meant to waste taxpayer's money and have to decide the best way to spend it. There were no extra staff for Brexit, they would just be pulled off other work and they couldn't ignore the other work indefinitely. At that stage no one was talking about or expecting 'no deal'. Even when Boris took over he was talking about getting a good deal.
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  8860. Trump 0 Children 1
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  8861. This government has shown that it is corrupt but no one resigns and it is working to undermine democracy and people's rights in order to keep itself in power so that its own interests can never be challenged. This is not a left leaning government. It does not believe in fairness or equality - quite the opposite. The Tories were at their most 'left' when they believed in one nation Toryism but Margaret Thatcher put an end to that and it has never espoused one nation Toryism ever since.
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  8862. Another side to the story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSUbCw5wMXw
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  8863.  @aimee-lynndonovan6077  They are heads of state and there are always protocols when representatives of countries are involved. Moreover if this was before 1963, Nigeria was still part of the British Empire so technically she was his overlord.
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  8864.  @townseydroidborleyboy8024  She has German ancestry but she and her ancestors for quite a way back were born in England so she's British by nationality.
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  8865.  @kingkarlo9587  Head of the British Empire which Nigeria was part of until 1963. He was technically her subject before 1963.
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  8866.  @townseydroidborleyboy8024  What does it matter anyway, but for the record, George I, her German ancestor, was a descendant of James I, the King who succeeded Elizabeth I and James I was a descendant of Henry VII via Henry VIII's sister Margaret.
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  8867.  @townseydroidborleyboy8024  Children are not responsible for their relatives.
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  8868.  @townseydroidborleyboy8024  No she's not as bad. She would not have known what he was up to at the time.
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  8869.  @isamuhimura8951  No. It's because she was Head of the Empire that Nigeria was part of, so technically she ranked higher than him.
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  8870.  @DrFatmaKhanPanAfrikan  This was in Nigeria, I understand in West Africa but Nigeria was at the time, part of the British Empire unless this was after 1960.
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  8871. Richard was French by bloodline. @townseydroidborleyboy8024 
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  8872.  @nicolagrant5450  It's not about you. It's about protocol and tradition.
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  8873.  @henrygreene7274  It makes sense in historical and protocol terms. These are not private citizens but representatives of their countries.
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  8874. She reminds me a lot of Polly Toynbee.
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  8875. I hate air travel and avoid it as much as I can. It's not a civilised way to travel.
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  8876.  @festinger3  It doesn't reflect well on either of them. It's her flat so when she asked him to leave he should have done so. I think she smashed his laptop because he ruined her sofa.
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  8877.  @jasongoodacre  Police don't assume but they have to check if called out ,and especially as she screamed and shouted 'get off'. It's interesting that people want to deflect blame onto the police.
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  8878. Why doesn't the government ever lock travel from countries with dangerous variants in time, or at least ensure testing and quarantine on arrival? The government keeps making the same mistakes that undermine its own measures to prevent the spread of the virus, and the sacrifices that the public have made to control the spread.
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  8879. And she's not a real blonde.
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  8880.  @susanpaulk7258  She is talking about trans people not being real men or women. It's just a little joke about her hair - not funny really.
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  8881. No such word as 'unstrustable'. Shows the lack of education of Trump supporters like McCarthy. The word is untrustworthy which applies to Trump.
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  8882. What people feel is not evidence and could just be prejudice.
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  8883. Ah yes, the shoe thing. Showing the soles of the shoe is an insult in some countries. Was it deliberate or not?
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  8884.  @rGxDale  Data always = money once it gets outside of the NHS and it should be private unless a person gives consent, but I think the UK government (Tories) recently changed the data protection act to allow them to sell off or share people's data.
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  8885.  @rGxDale  Management is not just about managing or manipulating data. It's about managing people and systems too so that organisations work coherently, efficiently, and safely to achieve their aims.
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  8886. Conveyancing solicitors should be looking into such things and advising their clients (the buyers) before they buy. I suspect the above scenario happens in properties that were once owned by public bodies such as locals councils and are a legacy of the 'right to buy' legislation.
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  8887. It's not so much that it's hard to understand but where's the logic? Is the sacrifice of those who stay at home to be undermined by those that don't?
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  8888. Mitch McConnell can say all he likes, but unless he voted to impeach it's a useless gesture and Trump can stand for office again.
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  8889. The architecture of Dubai looks horrible, ugly. Better hope that global warming doesn't cause sea levels to rise.
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  8890.  @zenzen-t9t  Scotland's drug problem does not invalidate her speech. Scotland voted for the SNP and still does. Draconian measures are pretty well the norm in a major crisis but not as part of routine government.
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  8891.  @zenzen-t9t  Fascism and failing to address drug problems adequately are not equivalent. Also people cannot be relieved of these problems unless they want to be and can follow treatments and then remain off the substances. If there are underlying mental health issues that becomes more difficult and people need those mental health issues addressed also but there is a surge of mental health problems all through the UK often from the stresses and strains of coping with modern pressures and the cost of living crisis and there aren't adequate mental health services anywhere for this. The UK government could do more to provide for these services or relieve the pressures, if there was the political will to do so.
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  8892.  @stephenmurray2851  Because the killer's ethnic origins are Rwandan (though he was born in Cardiff) Are you that thick that you don't understand?
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  8893.  @stephenmurray2851  I'm not deflecting. You are. The misinformation that caused the riots was that he was a refugee Muslim who had just come over on the boats and was on a 'watched list'. Someone even gave a false name for him. That's all I'm disputing. I don't care about your general racism and you trying to lever it into the question.
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  8894.  @stephenmurray2851  So what do you think of the child stabbing in London which was by a white man and it was an immigrant who stopped the stabber and got the knife off him? Good thing he was there at the time.
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  8895.  @stephenmurray2851  British is a nationality not a race. British passports are not given to white people only. Take away your crocodiles and horses. You clearly have no education in science.
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  8896.  @sarangistudent8614  Fundamentalism and intolerance is certainly a problem. Maintaining secular government is important. My lead comment was not endorsing Christians but seeking to correct misinformation about the killer''s background that has been circulated and is widely held to have contributed to the riots. Rioters seem to have a variety of motives though, some just about the killings in Southport, some anti-immigration, some anti-Muslim, some generally racist regardless, some feeling left behind and protesting that sort of inequality, feeling that foreigners are being treated better than natives much of which depends on media misinformation.
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  8897. Modern media is the modern equivalent of the bear pit. Videos of the 'failures' in society are uploaded for entertainment value, and so people can criticise and pass judgement. The background or causes are never examined.
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  8898. Die hard? Die easier with no Covid protection.
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  8899. Why can't he fund it himself? These oligarchs leech off government but have the nerve to say public spending (on other citizens) must be cut. He also can't compete in a fair market can he, so he's 'fixing' things in his favour.
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  8900. I think someone in Labour was proposing that locals should get priority for housing but that was before the election and Ministerial posts were allocated. I think it might have been Yvette Cooper. What they need to consider is increasing or enlarging schools and GP surgeries along with any large housing schemes.
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  8901. Don't you realise that Trump aspires to be a dictator that can never be removed from office and his only interest in power is what he can get out of it for his own benefit? He can be as corrupt as he likes in the business world while being President and no one would be able to touch him. Look at who else he admired, Putin (an authoritarian dictator in all but name) and Kim Jong Un (another nasty dictator). They are also warmongers whereas Trump is just after money but he's on the same power trip.
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  8902.  @nl396  I care.
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  8903. Interesting to hear your incorrect predictions now. Lib Dems helped Labour to win in Mid Beds by taking more votes from the Tories.
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  8904.  @josephturner7569  or some say Romano British
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  8905.  @gethcreator751  What's right with Boris?
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  8906. I really try not to buy from Amazon and actually I'm not much tempted these days because in terms of the quality of what it offers it's gone downhill. One possible solution to not having enough time to pee is to use the zen box, but I suppose Amazon spy on people in these boxes.
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  8907. The Conservative Party in the UK are copying some of the Republican Party tactics.
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  8908. The cost of housing now (rents and mortgages) is ridiculous because there's a shortage of it.
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  8909. There's a disturbance in Trump's brain that everyone's not o.k with and he's surrounded by turkeys applauding for Christmas
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  8910.  @AlanFagan-y5l  He's in the US isn't he, sucking up to Trump.
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  8911. How did Boris and his girlfriend stage their row? The police were called.
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  8912. *exorbitant not exorbant
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  8913. A visual display of climate change over time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RygVNrKMs0
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  8914. A bit like people throughout history, Scottish history for example.
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  8915. The Good Friday Agreement allows nationalists in NI to hold Irish passports, and if there was a United Ireland, couldn't the unionists continue to hold British passports if they wished to?
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  8916.  @taintabird23  Actually the UK government's position is already given, because The Good Friday agreement allows for a United Ireland by consent if the Irish vote for it. However, ever getting a vote put forward in the North of Ireland is the problem. I can't see the loyalists allowing it while they are in a majority or agreeing to it if they become a minority, and of course there's no government at all in NI at the moment - how long that will last who can tell, because it suits the Unionists as a way of undermining the Good Friday Agreement, and the nationalists won't agree to to rejoin the power sharing government again until the corruption/incompetence case has been heard against Arlene Foster, and of course Arlene Foster's DUP is holding up the UK government at the moment so it's not in the UK government's interests to upset the DUP. Untangle that one, anyone, if you please or just keep heads down and wait for history to do its thing.
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  8917.  1 2  I've already said so.
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  8918.  @bladimirrojas2712  Nicaragua has had 25 cases.
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  8919.  @rafsccp  Germany? New Zealand?
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  8920.  @rafsccp  Not necessarily because the population of Italy is more densely packed into cities or just as densely packed, relatively to their size.
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  8921.  @rafsccp  I think my comment was just in relation to the success of their Covid control policies.
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  8922.  @DettenbachDe  I agree that's true but low level testing also co-incides with corrupt politicians unwilling to spend on adequate public health planning to protect their populations from pandemics. I think the numbers are probably not far off in relative terms though I don't think they are fully inclusive and accurate in actual terms. The number of deaths are definitely fishy for some countries. Russia's death toll looks suspiciously low compared to the number of cases they've had, for instance and places like Ecuador and Mexico have been so overhwelmed by the numbers of sick and dying that it's hard to believe they are collecting accurate figures. There are video films taken outside mortuaries which count more in a day than are being officially declared.
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  8923.  @Delboy0  3 million fewer people voted for Trump than for his opponent. It was the electoral college that swung it for him. Boris Johnson is just a big liar. I don't know what excuse Brazilians have for voting for Bolsonaro. They are all populists though.
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  8924.  @neytiritetskahamoatite7688  Jair Bolsonaro doesn't respect his people much. I think men just like his macho attitude, but the rain forest will be destroyed under his watch things don't change.
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  8925. of not off.
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  8926.  jimmyriddlemethis6536  Today Ukraine, tomorrow the rest of Europe that's why. Putin has already threatened that. Bet you regard yourself as patriotic, D Day blah blah blah. Good job you weren't making the decisions at that time.
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  8927.  @dave710  Because of Global Warming, leading to high temperatures, drought, food shortages, wars over water supplies the death of many aspects of the natural world, more destructive weather events such as hurricanes, floods and forest fires, more skin cancer from more UV exposure, more disease from mosquitos and other heat loving beasties with no end in sight.
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  8928.  jimmyriddlemethis6536  Not at all. I don't rely on the BBC.
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  8929.  @lostintranslation1957  I'm sure you know more about me than I do. I get my news from a variety of sources because the BBC doesn't report on a lot of stuff especially stuff that is damaging to the Tory reputation. Their Chairman is a tory appointee and their general manager is also a Tory.
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  8930.  @samhodgins9804  But Putin's aim is 'first Ukraine and then the rest of Europe'.
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  8931.  @sa3608  Yes but it's a crime and people are arrested and prosecuted for that. Does a man get prosecuted in Iran if he beats his wife?
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  8932.  J L  How many women has Iran executed lately and how many children? None in the UK.
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  8933.  @nadjiguemarful  What a stupid trite comment. Where is your brain?
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  8934.  @alihamrang1499  I'm sorry for that. I wouldn't want to adversely affect anyone's mental health.
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  8935.  @OGCrypto33  Sky news Australia has a very right wing slant.
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  8936.  @dawnhollified2482  I have seen a number of Sky Australia news clips. They seem a bit rabid.
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  8937. The House of Lords never intended to stop it. They don't when the government has a big majority. To think that's their intention is to misunderstand their role. They suggested changes to make it work better as intended that's all. The government refused to listen. The Lords then won't press that further. They leave the government to deal with any unintended consequences.
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  8938. Pathetic comment.
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  8939.  @terrywhithouse115  I can't find his comment. Also I've noticed comments of mine were removed. Have you noticed that all the comments seem to agree with the presenter - no variations of opinion are to be found? Most unusual. This site is not open to democratic free opinion. It's just a political attack site, probably funded by some right wing organisation. It's designed to spread misinformation and arouse hatred.
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  8940. Accelerate HGV training? So how quickly are you going to put novices on the road in charge of heavy long vehicles containing this inflammable liquid (a potential bomb)?
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  8941. No Free Trade Deal can be negotiated, in any case, without a prior agreement in place. Those are the rules, and the UK has so far rejected the agreement between the EU and Theresa May, and the EU has said it won't change the agreement negotiated with Theresa May. We are headed for a 'no deal' by 31 October by default.
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  8942. Cain was certainly not seen as able.
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  8943. Why do people want to support Trump when Trump wants to get rid of democracy so that he can never be ousted from office. He's already tried it when he was in power and when he was voted out of power. Do these people, unlike the founding fathers, not believe democracy is worth preserving?
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  8944. A panic moment not a panicked moment. Moments are not human. They cannot feel panic.
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  8945. He knows that if he fights Israel that is playing into their hands, and will give the American right the excuse to takes sides with Israel against Syria. With no friends they can't win. This is a tragedy in the making. Besides, his military capacity will be low after the war against Assad and Israel bombing remaining weapons stockpiles. What is your solution?
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  8946. I'm guessing living in the Northern latitudes would have resulted in hypothermia without clothes.
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  8947. He probably won on the anti Trump vote since Trump alienated a lot of people during his time in office but at least Biden is prepared to work at the job rather than watching TV and tweeting all the time.
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  8948.  @bl8991  Is that all you have to worry about? Never mind having a President as lazy and indifferent as Trump was, so that hundreds of thousands died from Covid.
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  8949.  @bl8991  Well he would have had a lot of mess to clear up and people to appoint. Trump didn't exactly co-operate in any handover and tried to make Biden's takeover as difficult as possible. Nevertheless I believe that Biden has passed a $1.9 trillion stimulus plan and logistical support for Covid Vaccine roll out. Don't you know this? Why are you asking me?
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  8950.  @bl8991  Handing out money is a stimulus to the economy. It's more than Trump was going to do.
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  8951. Because the two are not inconsistent. The monarchy has no real power. We are a Parliamentary democracy.
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  8952. @Arfur Fuxxakes They are figureheads. They have not in modern history, overruled a Prime Minister.
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  8953. @Arfur Fuxxakes She's involved notionally, ceremoniously. Do you really think the Queen wants to get involved in this political mess? No, she's much more concerned about the long term and the survival of the monarchy, which would not survive long if they started getting involved politically. The power of the monarchy has been on the decline since Magna Carta in 1215, and then later when Charles I's head was chopped off by Parliament in the 17th century.
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  8954. @Arfur Fuxxakes I don't think so because to be honest they are a bit too thick for that and it would be pointless standing for Parliament if a P.M could only do what a Monarch wanted. Also Labour and Tories implement very different policies. Are you saying that the Monarch is behind all these policies that contradict each other?
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  8955. @Arfur Fuxxakes Contradictory polices signed off by the Monarch include Labour governments nationalising services. Tory governments privatising them again. Tory governments shrinking the state. Labour governments expanding it again. I know your allegations about civil servants are not true. I was one. Civil servants are there to implement government policy. They can advise on the workability of policies but Ministers are not obliged to listen. Anyway you obviously prefer to believe conspiracy theories rather than the hum drum reality of life which is more boring, so I will leave you to enjoy your conspiracy theories.
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  8956. @Arfur Fuxxakes Labour nationalised the coal industry, the railways, the electricity, gas and water companies. It also created the National Health Service. They introduced a state standard for education and they built thousands of council houses (or social housing as it's called nowadays). I'm happy to fund the NHS through my taxes. It takes a lot of financial worry and admin away from me. Sadly the other services have been privatised again by the Tories and council houses were sold off to private owners under Margaret Thatcher's government. I also reaped the benefit of a free education (paid for by taxes) to degree level as a result of Labour's policies through a student grant. The Tories did away with those. How come you don't know any political history?
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  8957. The back of the mug should show Hawley running with the slogan 'show me weak'.
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  8958.  @helenworrall8273  Strange that they asked you not to talk about it. One roofer's address I looked up on Google Earth because it wasn't far away. It was a posh area but when I looked it up the address was that of a post office.
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  8959. The voters should care. This is when they find out if they are getting what they think they voted for.
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  8960. Does the subtitle writer understand English?
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  8961. Chaos not Choas
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  8962. If you called it the British border, that would not be descriptive of where it was. The border between England and Wales is called The Welsh border so people know which border is being referred to.
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  8963. Fiat lux.
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  8964.  @3D_Printing  Prince Philip isn't there. He's retired.
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  8965.  @3D_Printing  He's in his nineties. What do you expect? He's ill in hospital now.
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  8966. Sadly money buys power in the US political system and perhaps in all political systems to some extent.
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  8967. Tunbridge Wells is not the countryside. I've been there. It's posh and wealthy. Even the countryside around it is wealthy.
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  8968. Pathetic one more like, from someone with no other defences left.
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  8969. Farage will have to do a lot more distancing if his candidates air their views frankly. I'm sure this is the tip of the iceberg. How come Farage never notices their views until they become public.
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  8970. Seb Fetea. It's not about emotion (hate). It's about facts. There have been interviews with pro Trumpers also but this one is about a current polling trend.
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  8971. You think they are politically biased towards Labour. Then why is this happening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMx78U0V1Cc&t=43s
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  8972.  @jettyharrison4377  Not always. Chicken pox didn't leave marks on me. I was warned not to scratch the spots or they would scar. It was difficult, but lots of calamine lotion eased the itching and the desire to scratch.
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  8973. Not really. I remember seeing Julie Walters in the theatre in Liverpool in the 1970s. She was an excellent actress then, though unknown nationwide. She's pretty much the same now, but everyone acts up a little on the Graham Norton show.
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  8974. These are cumulative figures aren't they, so they don't tell you which way things are going unless you remember the figures posted previously?
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  8975. Since Putin and his cronies launder a lot of their ill gotten gains through London, it would hurt them personally if Boris took action against that, and the property they own in London, but I don't suppose Boris will do that. The Tories have accepted donations to their party from these people, and Putin can always get more ill gotten gains from robbing the Russian people, again.
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  8976. Why? Do you understand it?
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  8977. That's how they're making money now. How else? What else do they have to sell that the market will want to buy?
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  8978. Conspiracy mush brain.
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  8979. He blames DEI for plane crashes without any evidence that any of these factors were actually to blame in the instance of the crashes. In the first crash an air traffic controller was trying to co-ordinate both the helicopter and the plane, when that is supposed to be done by 2 air traffic controllers, and the reason for that is cuts in staff. I understand the helicopter and the plane weren't even on the same communication channels.
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  8980.  colinstevens6837  And that's why we got the awful government we did. You fault and others like you.
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  8981. There are cases though where vaccinating the population has been for the greater good. Smallpox for instance, a nasty and dangerous disease, has been eliminated by vaccination programmes and in other cases of disease, fatalities have been hugely reduced by public health vaccination programmes. The risk benefit analysis in relation to Covid though is something which should not be ignored and pharmaceutical corporations also need to be more transparent with their data.
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  8982. Because they are not in the White House yet.
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  8983.  @brewed_for_success  Not illegal as such, but he would have been seen to be leading the storming of the Capitol.
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  8984.  @potcrak1  Eh? You speak a language I don't understand.
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  8985. No Tory voted against this bill that breaks international law? Scandalous
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  8986. Israel not long ago declared itself a Jewish State. As well as being somewhat racist, I imagine that will give them ammunition to say that anti-Israeli equates to anti-semitism. Where David Lammy is MP 2 constituencies are being merged into one. I've a feeling he will remain the MP, as he is better known and a shadow Minister, and the other Labour MP will lose out though she is far better.
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  8987. Ukraine. If Putin takes over Ukraine the rest of Europe will be next. Putin has already expressed a Hitler like mentality in his threats towards Europe.
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  8988. When were his gloves ever on?
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  8989. Trump's a fascist. Democracy doesn't matter to him, only power.
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  8990. The other girl is a famous model. Cara Delevingne.
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  8991. How to ruin good teeth. Oooh, look! You can also ruin your lips to go along with your ruined teeth.
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  8992. *Lon Chaney. Dick Cheney
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  8993. @nextingting It's based on history, albeit with some imagination involved to fill the gaps.
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  8994. Sensible financial management is important because the better public finance is managed, the more that can be achieved with it, but sensible financial management is not a theme that's going to set voters hearts on fire.
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  8995.  @Random.sachen1  Palestinians are not religious fundamentalists, generally speaking. The do want their freedom in a free state though.
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  8996. Bad people can also use science for bad things and science used badly has the capacity to wipe us out pretty quickly. It could also save us from ourselves. Who knows which side of human nature will win out ultimately?
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  8997. New York has more of a problem so Trump has a nerve. He should look after his own back yard but he is busy undoing all the environmental legislation. The problem with London is that it votes Labour but it's stuck with a Tory government who do b**ggerall for ordinary Londoners but frankly areas outside of London around the country need investment and regeneration. Everyone can't live in London. You talk negatively about Londoners as if nobody there comes from outside of London. You quote some rude Londoners but Londoners are generally helpful to people in distress. Don't forget that a lot of rude commuters come from the Tory shires outside of London, and rudeness is often also produced by increasing pressure and stress. You have been well diverted into attacking the wrong targets - by the Daily Mail etc. The government has cut local government and police budgets hugely resulting in a loss of over 20,000 police officers since 1910 and massive cuts to youth services and years of austerity has created much more poverty. Just saying somewhere is a shithole is superficial and arrogant, and offers no solutions. Good thing you aren't Mayor or P.M then. I expect you voted for this dreadful government didn't you, and will do so again.
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  8998.  @loganpaulmason5601  They are not deliberately stalling. If it was easy they would have done it by now. In order to trade, countries internationally have agreement or know the terms on which they will be trading. The people who want to leave immediately without an agreement have no idea of the chaos that would occur because they have no idea of all the arrangements and agreements that underpin our relations with Europe that are relied on by all sectors of the economy. If there is no agreement, apart from chaos, the price of our goods would go up to uncompetitive levels and companies would start leaving the UK for Europe where they will be able to trade more competitively.
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  8999. On Channel 4 (the channel Dorries wants to flog off, remember), an expert was talking about how most of our gas comes from our own shores, The North Sea, and though it's subject to world pricing, we don't have to go along with that. The government could unilaterally reduce or cap the price of our supplies, but will they even think about doing that? I doubt it. The other piece of information I came across was that the energy companies the government met with over the last few days are the retailers (the ones that are barely surviving) and not the wholesalers (the ones that are raking in the massive profits). Not very useful, and it didn't produce any new announcements about help. In politics, where there's a will, there's a way, but I detect no will in this government to really get to grips with the issue in a way that will stave off the massive pressure on people's finances that's to come.
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  9000. Sadly you only have to have a few vacuous slogans to get elected in the many places in the USA.
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  9001. Ohno, O yes.
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  9002.  @Roby-yx3jt  I love history and reading about it.
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  9003. @Dimitrius Didimitrius What's not surprising? Who was literate and could read Plato from the original?
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  9004.  @zirbto5749  Hanover was the house name of George I and his male successors. George I was the ruler of Great Britain and Ireland and also Hanover in Germany. Neither country was 'under' the other, just under the same monarch. The surname Saxe-Coburg Gotha didn't come into the English Royal House until much later in Queen Victoria's time. It was her husband Albert's surname.
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  9005. I think people make an error about the meaning of literally because they associate it with literature i.e. fiction, when in fact it's referring to fact.
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  9006. Probably not a personal view of Colbert. More like he is putting the questions that he believes most Americans would want him to put.
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  9007. You don't 'advocate for' something. You just 'advocate' something.
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  9008. Unless it comes out of profits rather than prices. Competition should keep prices down. Wages are going up in any case and that hasn't caused an increase in inflation,. so far, despite all the grisly warnings in the Tory press.
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  9009. The US would like to run them instead. It's supposed to be independent.
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  9010.  @leicestersq1  He had a number of health issues.
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  9011. You could end it if you ever had it, but it's lazy and ignorant to refer to things you don't like as 'communism'.
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  9012. Yes, go to jail.
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  9013. You need physical evidence because that's what employers and other authorities will demand as proof. Just as today authorities still ask for proof of identity in the form of a recent household bill. It doesn't change the government's policy over who is given leave to stay, so why would the government object to doing that and allow their bill to be voted down for the sake of it? It's stupid but is it more stupid than the Brexit MEP who has complained that there will be no-one from Britain to hold the EU fisheries committee to account after 31 January 2020? You decide.
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  9014.  @TousiTV  I don't think people will be sent email copies. It will just be accessible online. Some authorities will not accept copies. They want to see an original document sent to your address through the post. Also people don't carry printers around with them.
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  9015. It's when you the ego out of politics and put the brain and the practicality in.
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  9016. I agree with the position Piers is taking but he does gloss over the fact that he said he didn't believe Meghan Markle's mental health problems while in the Royal family, and that's what upset most complainers and caused the BBC to sack him as they were concerned about the effect of that on other people who were suffering mental health issues, - the effects of not being believed. Also Piers did initially befriend Meghan Markle and said he liked her. He was miffed that she cut him out of her life when she became an item with Prince Harry, and he still resents that, but she would have had to do that because Piers is a sensation seeking journalist. I'm no fan of Meghan Markle - just adding a bit of balance here.
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  9017. I think tasers may have overtaken them. If you get close enough to use a baton, you'd be too close to a samurai sword or machete for safety.
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  9018. Sore loser.
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  9019.  @WildBill-py6vn  I don't forget and it wasn't the same. How ignorant some people are.
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  9020. Why do you pronounce the Bernard in George Bernard Shaw in the American way? It's pronounced Bernud in England and Ireland. Not Bernaaard.
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  9021. He should have said 'What do you mean by what do you mean by'?
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  9022. I don't think they have much choice given the state of the finances and their promise not to raise all the biggest taxes that fall on working people.
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  9023. He's surely running out of options now........surely?
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  9024. He must have been envious. The Tory party is working hard to catch up now.
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  9025. Won't he have to go through a selection process by Labour before the next election? If he's had such a hard time deciding to change party, it does not sound like he's natural Labour, more like trying to save his seat as an MP.
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  9026. Trivial comment or what, and what's a 'foll'?
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  9027. Suicide by Taliban?
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  9028. The word is normality not normalcy.
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  9029. What is your scientific basis for reaching this conclusion?
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  9030. No more hypocritical than the Tories who've taken lots of donations from Russian oligarchs. Can we follow your money, Nigel? Where does that lead?
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  9031.  @greeny202ab  .Political union is no longer something being discussed by the EU. It's being quietly shelved. The world is moving to protectionism and power blocks. Britain would be starting off with no deals and having to negotiate them which could take years. We will be at a disadvantage as we will be more desperate for deals than any country we want them with. Other countries will have their trading deals and arrangements already established. We'll be down the plughole if we try leaving without a deal just on WTO terms. No country in the world trades just on WTO terms because in trading terms it's the 4th division. They all want deals with a big trading block which is the premier division which is where we are now. It's a bit of a myth that the EU controls us. There are some rules of membership but 99% of what the UK spends is determined by the UK government. So what happens if we go to no deal WTO terms? We have to then set a tariff for trading with the world and under WTO terms it has to be the same tariff for everyone we trade with in the same goods. If we set a tariff that will push prices up for UK consumers and we'll be worse off. If we set a zero tariff (possible under the rules) our farming and manufacturing won't be able to compete with cheap imports from countries where workers have no rights and are paid pennies an hour so our farming and manufacturing industries will be destroyed. Don't just take my word for it. Patrick Minford, an economist who is for a hard Brexit says the same about the future of British farming and manufacturing. It will affect other economic sectors also. Wealthy people like ex stockbroker Farage and Jacob Rees Mogg will be raking it in because WTO rules do not regulate financial systems and they will be even more free to squirrel away their profits to tax havens around the world. Also over 80% of our exports are services and 49% of those are to the EU. The day we hard Brexit, those services with lose their 'passport' rights to European EU countries, which is why businesses are talking about moving their headquarters to the Europe. The very people who want Brexit because they are suffering under the present government's austerity programme, will be stuffed even more under no deal Brexit. None of this was explained before the Referendum by a campaign that wasn't even talking about a no deal Brexit. As for getting trade deals, as a member of the EU, we have over 40 trade deals that will no longer apply the day we go out on no deal and the government only has a handful lined up to replace them. Trade deals take years to negotiate because they are complex covering everything traded between countries. Trump is protectionist and the US is a larger economy than ours, and if we want a trade deal with the USA it will be very much on his terms, as he doesn't need to deal. His negotiators have already said they want access to NHS funding for their corporations as part of the deal and for us to take their farming products like chlorine washed chicken and hormone fed beef - practices currently banned by the EU. China and Russia are not our friends and in any case they don't allow countries to export freely to theirs. They are protectionist. Asian countries have each other to trade with nearby. The only thing India wants from us is more visas for people to come here. Other countries won't make up for the loss of the big trading area on our doorstep (the EU). The way out of our problems is to vote for a party that will do something about inequality in the UK and protect jobs and trade, and that's not the Tories or the Brexit party. Farage has stated he is for replacing the NHS with an insurance based market system. He is for taking restrictions off the sale of handguns and he has other right wing policies too. If we set a zero tariff, that would be zero for EU trade also, except as outsiders the EU would be placing a tariff on us (could be 40%). That would make us uncompetitive in trading with the EU. You can't just count the cost of trading with the EU in terms of our subscriptions. You have to count the benefits to the economy too and the health and welfare of people to get the whole picture. Here's a little taste of what low standards in relation to health and safety are like in the USA - the kind of standards we'll be pressed to accept. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/17/health/baby-foods-arsenic-lead-toxic-metals-wellness/index.html
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  9032. The whale can only eat small stuff like krill. It has no teeth for eating meat and not the right digestive system.
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  9033.  @Jen-rw7yh  I don't understand your comment 'asad is dr'. Do you mean he is a doctor? He trained as a dentist didn't he? EU covers up something that didn't happen? That doesn't make sense. Assad did chemical bomb his own people.
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  9034.  @Jen-rw7yh  I'm aware that the US government policy is driven by their desire for oil and nothing much else. They only got involved in Syria because their rivals Russia got involved in Syria, but Assad is a bad man. He was torturing and killing people in his own land before any outsiders got involved and that's why some of his own people rebelled against him.
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  9035.  @Jen-rw7yh  I am not from America.
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  9036. Just wait for the banker's take on the NHS. Is he going to start by appointing useless but easily manipulated Dido Harding to head up the NHS? Next step, bring in more American companies who will depress wages or cut services.
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  9037. Farage is on record as saying he believes in removing controls on handguns and he believes in changing the health service to an insurance based one. Right wingers believe in laissez faire capitalism (as unregulated as possible) shrinking the state (as few public services as possible - shrinking the welfare state - privatising public services and selling off public assets as much as possible), few or no human rights or workers rights - not troubled by a rising gap between rich and poor or corporate tax evasion.
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  9038.  @inquaanate2393  Give me examples of where that's inaccurate? I've already given examples of the Brexit party polices that are right wing. Read my previous comment.
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  9039.  @inquaanate2393  Yep. They are what he believes in but he knows they would not be popular with voters so he has not put them in their Manifesto.
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  9040.  @ltmund  What does? There's no similarity between Farage and the EU. His whole stance is about fighting to get free of it.
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  9041.  @inquaanate2393  That's your opinion, not mine.
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  9042. It sounds complicated. The elements of it are on the BBC news website.
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  9043. @Aaron Giles Much is the same as May's. The backstop arrangement has changed. I understand May was offered something of the sort. The benefit to Boris is that if he gets this through he wins and if he doesn't get it through he can blame his opponents for a hard deal Brexit. It sets him up for any election. Even if Parliament accepts it, he might still go out on a no deal Brexit as putting a deal before Parliament frees him from having to ask for an extension in compliance with the Benn Act. At the same time if he deliberately 'fails' to enact the agreement a hard Brexit will be the result. He's given himself all the options he wants.
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  9044. @Aaron Giles It's going to go to the wire, I suspect. What a way to make such a big change to the future of the country.
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  9045. No one fakes honesty like Donald Trump.
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  9046. Elusion means escape. Do you mean illusion?
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  9047. I just subscribed. If I don't receive recommendations, I will actively look to see what videos you have made. I've noticed that the variety of videos recommended to me has reduced a bit recently. I wonder whether it's now recommending more of what I've watched recently and less of what I've watched in the past.
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  9048. Looking to inherit are you?
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  9049. I've always been a pessimist expecting things to get worse and planning for that. I've not been proved wrong so far.
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  9050. I think it's worse for all non-Tory voters in the UK.
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  9051.  @katyb6979  Prices are historically low anyway because of Supermarket competition. If prices go lower than the cost of producing food, farmers will not be able to produce it. They can't take losses indefinitely. Yes I've seen poor farmers. A lot are leaving farming and there's a high suicide rate. The big farmers who farm on an industrial scale may survive (but only by dropping animal welfare standards and food safety standards in order to compete with the American companies etc). Tenant farmers are the poorest ones and Welsh hill farmers who are not wealthy will suffer because without a deal the tariff from Europe will be over 40% for lamb exports from Britain. Even Patrick Minford who is a huge fan of Brexit and is often cited by Jacob Rees Mogg in support of Brexit has said British agriculture and British manufacturing will probably collapse under a no deal Brexit. Farmers also won't be able to compete with imports from countries where food is produced by poor peasants paid pennies and with no rights. The only way to protect British farmers after Brexit is to put a tariff on food imports, but if we do that food prices will rise for British consumers. I can't see Boris doing that.
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  9052.  @jonsimmons4150  There are different kinds of farmers; those with large farms and those with small; agricultural farmers and hill farmers, owner farmers and tenant farmers, rich farmers and poor farmers. Farmers are finding it much harder to export their products since Brexit. However, as long as they keep voting Conservative, I guess the majority must either be doing o.k. or not be very politically aware.
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  9053.  @jonsimmons4150  Selling the land off for development is often a sign that farming is not viable and it's not good for a country to rely mainly on food imports just like it's not good to rely mainly on gas imports. We earn our living as a country through exports too. Food supply worldwide will be under pressure even more so in future (says the Bank of England among others). Ukraine used to supply a large element of wheat and oils worldwide which it cannot do now, and climate change reduces food production also. We need a food strategy in Britain that keeps the farming sector healthy - not one of enriching already wealthy farmers.
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  9054.  @jonsimmons4150  An economy that relies on imports is not earning its living and is open to their food supply becoming hostage to political arguments. South African farmers operate in a different climate with different scale farms and with cheaper labour. It's not the same in Britain.
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  9055.  @jonsimmons4150  And watch the economy and food standards go down the Swanee. O yes, that's 'taking back control' isn't it, outsourcing everything?
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  9056.  @jonathansimmons5353  Doesn't matter whether I'm a remainer or not. What matters is facts and feasibility of what we say. Your solutions were not solutions. Most countries in the world want trade deals with the EU or other trade blocs as trading on WTO terms (the default position) is the worst trading position. Japan is a wealthy nation - a nation of savers not a nation that has been persuaded to live on credit.
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  9057.  @jonsimmons4150  I don't think such standards apply to animals in Australia though, do they?
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  9058.  @jonsimmons4150  A letter from the Scottish Minister for Rural Affairs to the UK Minister of State for Trade policy, concerning the UK's free trade agreement with Australia, references 'the scale of antibiotic use on Australian farms for non-therapeutic purposes', with concerns about the implications for anti-microbial resistance, (one of the top WHO concerns) and also states 'Australian farmers adhere to lower animal welfare standards than their UK counterparts therefore, the non-regression clause incorporates Australia’s lower welfare standards into the agreement.'
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  9059.  @jonsimmons4150  We don't eat Eastern Europe trafficked horsemeat in the UK and animal welfare standards are higher here - so there! Na na, na na na 😉
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  9060.  @jonsimmons4150  I don't remember ever commenting on Japan and I don't know what you are on about. How does that connect with the former discussion?
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  9061. Have they not closed the wet markets down now? Surely the people operating these markets will die from these viruses too.
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  9062. Whoosh! Do you even understand what is going on?
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  9063. Perhaps they were playing a version of 'chicken' and he reacted too slowly.
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  9064.  @galleon1968  That's an accent you are referring to. Accents are perfectly legitimate. Tories may speak more in received pronunciation but they also talk more bollocks.
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  9065. He's not doing his job is he? He won't have time for that with all his tweeting.
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  9066. Eh? How do you maintain that?
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  9067.  @petergaskin1811  Agreed.
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  9068.  English Till The End  *woman
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  9069.  English Till The End  I get nothing from it. I only give (a free education service) :-)
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  9070.  @ajftwg5827  Their stats are usually taken from ONS, an independent body that has a good reputation for integrity and they also call out the government if the government misuses their statistics or presents them inaccurately.
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  9071.  @ianwhite3616  I don't think there's much to update since the Tory government stopped processing the claims of immigrants and they just got stuck in hotels etc in ever increasing numbers.
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  9072. She does. The Labour government are going to unblock the backlog by processing the claims.
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  9073. Trump's rule 3 is never admit defeat. Always claim victory. What worries me is that these may be plans under other Presidents but Trump is good at taking credit and making himself look good to voters who believe what he says. He is good at self promotion. A lot of his voters don't look further than the headlines.
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  9074. Tucker = rhyming slang for *ucker
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  9075. Boris knew full well what he was signing as he changed things from May's agreement, specifically he changed the part on Northern Ireland so that the border for goods would be a line down the Irish sea. The Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement of 1998 refers to a 'common travel area' which includes the north and south of Ireland. Also the 1998 agreement gives the citizens of NI the right to British or Irish citizenship or both and it also committed the UK government to enshrine the EU convention on Human Rights into law and for access of the people of NI to the European Courts of Justice. Any suggestion of a hard border, whether that specific term is mentioned in the 1998 agreement or not is a de facto problematic issue for the population of Northern Ireland and The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland voted to stay within the EU. Trampling all over that could stir up troubles that the 1998 Agreement was mean to settle.
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  9076. It would be good if they scrapped it but I don't know if they will.
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  9077. Eta Carinae. I think it's already got to your brain.
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  9078. It's not going to create peace though. Quite the opposite. The NI Protocol was designed to protect The Good Friday Peace Agreement. The DUP who want the government to rip up the NI Protocol, is hoping to undermine the Good Friday Peace Agreement by this means, as they never signed up to it and are now arguing that there will be lack of co-operation from them in terms of getting the Northern Ireland Assembly functioning, and possible violence if the Protocol is not scrapped. It is they who are the blackmailers and disrupters and they don't have the support for this from the majority in Northern Ireland, but the government is twisting the story and giving in to them. Boris signed his agreements in bad faith as he never intended to honour them and told the DUP as much. The NI Protocol has resulted in the NI economy performing better than elsewhere in the UK because they are still in the single market for goods trading. The government doesn't like that it shows up Brexit as a failure in the rest of the UK in comparison.
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  9079.  @chrisl6291  You use terminology I don't recognise and have never heard used in Britain. Service payment? Are you referring to benefit entitlements to top up low wages for those who have low wages that are not living wages? People anywhere in the UK are entitled to that but not 'all members of the UK'. In Nov 21 it was reported that 'The value of trade between Northern Ireland and Ireland has rocketed since Brexit with cross-border business increasing in both directions, official data shows. Figures released on Wednesday by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) in Dublin show that the value of imports from Northern Ireland surged by 60% in the first nine months of 2021 and are now valued at €2.8bn (£2.37bn). Trade in the other direction has also increased, with a 48% rise in exports to Northern Ireland from the republic, bringing the total value of trade to €2.57bn for January to September 2021.'
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  9080.  @chrisl6291  What are you one about? Look this up because it's nonsense. Are you talking about the budget that comes from the UK government to the UK countries? You're just not making sense.
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  9081.  @chrisl6291  I've heard of the Barnett formula. I understand it to be this: 'The Barnett formula is used by the UK Treasury to calculate the annual block grants for the Scottish government, Welsh government and Northern Ireland executive. It therefore determines the overall funding available for public services such as healthcare and education in the devolved nations.' It's expressed in terms of £1 per person but it does not go to individuals. It goes to governments within these UK countries to spend on public services for their populations. This is how it's calculated 'The Barnett formula calculates devolved budgets by using the previous year’s budget as a starting point, and then adjusting it based on increases or decreases in comparable spending per person in England. For example, if spending on healthcare in England increases by £100m, the Scottish government’s budget would increase by £9.7m since Scotland’s population is 9.7% of England’s. Similarly, the Welsh government’s budget would increase by £5.6m and the Northern Ireland Executive’s budget would increase by £3.4m. Since the devolved block grants are not ringfenced, the devolved administrations would be free to spend the additional money on services other than healthcare. The Barnett formula only applies to public services that are devolved, and therefore applies to slightly different areas of spending in each nation.' I don't know where your definition comes from.
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  9082. They've probably got a cat flap around the back, but Larry insists on going in through the front. He loves the attention.
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  9083. @green bottle Yes. Creatures too.
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  9084. Covid 19 is the name that the WHO gave to this form of Coronavirus.
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  9085. Too unworldly and unpractical. Doesn't know how anything works.
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  9086. What was holding it up?
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  9087. You would also wonder who would now vote for Donald Trump but he still has a lot of support from those who don't care or believe what he's done.
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  9088. Other way round wasn't it?
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  9089. He does stay quiet sometimes. Here's an example where he stays quiet and just lets the conversation between the celebrities flow on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJEqXJRK4Q4. He judges when to get involved and when not.
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  9090. Abraham Lincoln left the stockpile empty, he should have had the foresight to stock up ready for the 2020 pandemic. It's not the fault of the current President who has only been in office for 3 and a half years.
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  9091.  @bruh949  Well I've always enjoyed living here. He wasn't in office for decades but he did things to speed up the traffic for commuters and he introduced the Oyster system for buses and tubes which was great. It took a lot of hassle out of commuting and travelling in general and enabled people to save more on travel.
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  9092. @Neria Wolf No one knows the future. They just have opinions.
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  9093.  Xavier Behavier  You didn't listen to the interview where that is explained.
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  9094.  @sharonwashington8150  Your comment is illogical. Bad candidates would find it more difficult to achieve things.
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  9095.  @sharonwashington8150  *elected.
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  9096.  @sharonwashington8150  That's the beauty of retirement.
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  9097.  @sharonwashington8150  They've been avoiding that one for years.
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  9098. Belgians not Belgiums unless multiple versions of the country can move about. We know our flauts? What are those? Faults maybe? I believe this comment is very British. Americans would not bother with pedantry.
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  9099.  @Steve10578  No it won't be like most other non EU countries, because all other countries have trade deals with their neighbours. Not a single country in the World relies purely on WTO rules for trade. They are not daft. All our trade deals as part of the EU will lapse the second we go out with no deal. It can take years to negotiate new trade deals.
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  9100.  @Steve10578  What are you talking about? WW2?
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  9101. It's not unnecessary. This is when voters find out whether they are going to get what they think they voted for.
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  9102.  @leatherneck7857  The process is necessary because it announces and confirms what the government is going to do, which may or may not be what people voted for. This is when they find out whether the government intends to honour their election pledges. It doesn't have to be so ceremonial but that does help to impress on the government that they will be held to account on all this.
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  9103.  @leatherneck7857  It can't happen without this. How dim are Brexiters?
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  9104. I can't understand why she was thinking of not voting. I can understand her disillusionment, but if she and people in her situation don't try to turf Trump out I dread to think what he will do to them next.
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  9105.  @thesound-chameleonman3580  You don't know what to believe any more do you? Can't tell which are reliable news sources from unreliable ones?
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  9106.  @thesound-chameleonman3580  Well, then you won't know the truth when you hear it. The thing is that the bigger the media and the more they have an international reputation to maintain, the more they cannot afford their reputation to be undermined by telling constant lies and if they tried there are plenty of people and outlets to call them out on it. Where you will get most of the lies is in social media and the tabloids with the worst reputations or which are permeated by people in the pay of foreign governments whose role is to spread disinformation. There are also independent fact checking sites that independently fact check contentious statements made in the media. You can find these by googling 'independent fact check sites'. I would also recommend 'Private Eye' magazine as a reliable source of information. You can also independently look up statistics for yourself.
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  9107. What would be the point of nuking a territory next to what he considers to be Russia. That would contaminate a wider area. The Russia they had 'won' would not be worth having.
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  9108. Too late. This is why voters have to engage brain before voting.
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  9109.  Terry Tibbs  They should be ashamed when immigrants speak better English than they do and they were born here.
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  9110. These seem to be hard to find now.
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  9111. Mulan is originally a character from 6th century Chinese folklore. She's not a modern creation, though modern films have their own interpretations of her story. Disguising herself as a man in order to take her father's place in the army and distinguished military service is part of the original folklore.
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  9112. I'm not sure 'this is not the Tory Party'. Throughout history the Tory Party has supported the privileged. It was only since Labour started winning elections post WW2 that the Tory Party moved towards being a 'one nation party' as they referred to it, in order to win back votes, but it wasn't long before Thatcher rebelled against that idea, and since then the Tory Party's continued to move rightwards. Before anything is sorted out we could all be history courtesy of Putin and his nuclear arsenal and nuclear threats.
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  9113. That's because it was so 'settled' and simple, they could not get it done, and they never had a proper debate beforehand either.
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  9114.  @frankie7529  I didn't mean that kind of debate. I meant proper planning for Brexit and a debate on what it would mean for the UK. There were discussions but they weren't particularly informed and not always honest. They didn't get it done because it took a long time to negotiate because Britain didn't really know what it wanted except what wasn't on offer and they didn't much like the options being offered. Also the Northern Ireland issue was difficult. The reason Parliament held it up was because Theresa May was told it would be easy to defeat Corbyn if she called an election and she could gain seats to make it easier to get a deal through Parliament. In fact she lost seats to Labour and Lib Dems and made it much harder to get a deal through Parliament. Also her own party was divided. Many of them did not like or support her deal. Then Boris replaced her and told the electorate he had an 'oven ready deal'. Now they say they should not have signed it and are trying to get out of it. It's been a mess all along.
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  9115.  @frankie7529  Well, I sussed early on that it would be a problem, and if I knew the politicians should have known, but we have had a bunch of chuckleheads in government, and I think the Leave Campaign just said whatever they thought would win the vote for leave.
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  9116. Hannity lying about lying. You couldn't make it up (but they did).
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  9117. The rivalry here between Emma Freud and Michael Ball is funny - lots of cutting comments about each other.
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  9118. Wasn't it Trump who told his supporters to vote twice? I never saw Biden say such things. If anyone committed fraud it's Trump's side,so maybe they are not any good at it, just like they are not any good at anything else. Now filing suit without any evidence.
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  9119.  @notdave2993  *their
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  9120. The Taliban funded their campaign by growing and selling drugs, but maybe they want just to sell it to foreign countries and not have addicts in their own.
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  9121. @amberbudiyanto2654 Thanks. Gladstone was also sweet.
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  9122. In his own mind.
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  9123. Gosh, Putin must have money to burn (NOT) if he wants to pay for surveillance on all his perceived opponents these days.
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  9124. Why do we always get the dimmest leaders? Why do people vote them in? The economy would grow and do better if we had some competence and expertise in government, instead of this useless parasitic shower. How is hard work rewarded? Well look at this government's treatment of its own civil service that had to deal with Covid, Brexit and an indecisive law breaking government on top of the day job. They are threatened with 91,000 redundancies. They are threatened with considerably reduced redundancy pay. They were threatened with a pay cut in the regions until Truss u turned and she has threatened to cut their annual leave. Besides which for years their pay has been frozen or increases have not kept pace with inflation. Some have had the pleasure of being bullied by Priti Patel. In Partygate, security staff and cleaners were abused.
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  9125. Too late then.
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  9126. Such cold eyes.
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  9127.  @Henry-p6i  Well, thanks. I see you are a new subscriber so you will be seeing all my ramblings?
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  9128.  @alambyant  We've been out of the UK since 2020 or didn't you notice?
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  9129.  @alambyant How are we not in control in your opinion? The realities of the world mean that economic blocs will always have more economic power than single countries, especially if the single countries are not large, but that's been the case since economic blocs were formed and they were formed to protect their members from unfair competition. We should have known that before leaving. The tail of the world is never going to wag the dog.
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  9130.  @alambyant Yes we are in control of our borders. We are just not very effective at controlling them. I don't know what the trade deficit was with the EU when we were members but what's that got to go with our 'control' post Brexit? Members of blocs pool some sovereignty for the benefits it brings them, and they all have a veto. Italians are no less Italian, the French no less French and the Germans no less German etc etc.
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  9131.  @alambyant  Our trade balance with the EU, that's economic reality for you. By leaving the EU we chose to be treated as a third country in relation to the EU, just like all the other 3rd countries who are not members of the EU. That means that there are trade barriers in our way, designed to protect the EU. It's for such reasons that many countries would like to become members of the EU. We are members of the ECHR. You may see downsides of that but the upsides are that there is a point of appeal beyond the state if the state does a wrong to its citizens. It's because of the ECHR that Hillsborough victims were able to get justice.
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  9132.  @ChosenMan37  Coronavirus is different. It's not a cold. You should read up about it.
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  9133.  Alex Gibson  A proportion of survivors suffer long term effects though and in some the damage is permanent.
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  9134. Suella too divisive for the Tory leadership? The Tory party generally were great exponents of divisiveness. In fact that was one of their strategies to try and win the election though it failed.
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  9135. Trump can't believe he's losing popularity, so he blames it on indoctrination of the population. This gives you a good clue of what areas he'll be attacking if he gets elected again, education and the media.
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  9136. Parliament is practising self-isolation or is no longer in session. Only the government can speak on this. They are obviously rotating the job around the Cabinet - spreading the blame?
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  9137.  @eduardochavacano  Whoever the Boris guy is? Lol. He's the Prime Minister and The Health Secretary also has Coronavirus. Boris boasted a short time ago that he had visited a hospital and had shaken everyone's hand.
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  9138.  @BenDecko-ir7op  De Santis is crippling the economy, destroying education, spoiling the environment and taking away women's freedom over their own lives.
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  9139. It was only for the purpose of releasing his head from the tin. Holding him further back could have meant the cat might injure his neck when the tin was pulled.
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  9140.  @davidcurry4433  P.S. Accountability for NHS spending is to Parliament via the Department of Health and Social Care. The obligation on the nhs and DHSC is not to break the overall budget (the voted spend) and to show what the funds were spent on. Other accountability is via the contracting process and the separation of purchasers and providers, so the purchasers decide what needs to be spent based on their budget and data showing the needs of patients in their area. These are included in the contracts which are monitored over the financial year. Also NHS spending is audited by auditors and there is a management structure in Trusts to manage the spending.
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  9141. The woman behind Greene looks very unimpressed.
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  9142. Strange pronunciation of surplus as if it's 2 separate words. Why not try that with deficit (deaf is it?)
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  9143. Yes. I thought there was contempt in his expression too.
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  9144. He made all the decisions anyway.
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  9145. Civil Servants can't be expected to or asked to break the law. That's it. Why is it in the government approved Code if that's not the case? Wouldn't Jews in Germany have welcomed it if civil servants and officials being asked to arrange atrocities against the Jews in WW2 had stood up and refused to do it?
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  9146. The problem was involving the Queen in a lie by telling everyone she'd given permission when they'd never even contacted her about it beforehand.
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  9147.  Scumspawn *****  Relatives of someone 'important' working there already? Family rich enough for him to be an intern with no pay? Went to Oxbridge or Eton or suchlike? All three?
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  9148. Boris and Dominic Cummings are the establishment. They are both very wealthy guys. Dominic Cummings owns a castle.
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  9149. Trump is incapable of feeling humiliation. He has no shame.
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  9150. He should have called his show 'The Ego Has Landed'.
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  9151. Burnt vegetation will only add to global warming.
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  9152. It's anger to anyone at this stage. They know he's not responsible. He doesn't have any role in it but they will be angry at anyone seen as a figure of authority at the moment, because their concerns about the building were ignored by the authorities for so long. It's the local council (Tory) that had responsibility and that showed indifference. The Mayor does not control them. You won't see Tory councillors making themselves available to anger in public like that. Actually the original council leaders were sacked for lack of action, even after the disaster.
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  9153. The lawyer seems to be going easier on Boris Johnson than on other witnesses at the Inquiry. The government is not meant to be using Whatsapp at all. It should be keeping secure official records.
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  9154. *precedent not president. Oh yes, they will push to see what they can get away with. Most governments (meaning all governments before this Tory one) would check whether something was legal before announcing it.
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  9155. Why did you and your 5 supporters watch this video then?
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  9156.  @ott1186  Maybe shortage of space. Everyone knows who Macron is. It would not be easy to define his political leanings. Centrist I'd suppose.
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  9157.  @ott1186  It's a spectrum. She's always been far right on the spectrum. You just view it from your perspective. The BBC has described Momentum and The Militant Tendency, as far left, but Labour tends to keep those from being selected for election and the BBC tends not to invite them on its Channel much. I do remember, in the past, Dave Nellist MP being described as far left and also Derek Hatton, Liverpool council leader, as well as Union leaders such as Arthur Scargill and Len McCluskey and Jeremy Corbyn's aide, Seumas Milne. George Galloway is also described as far left.
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  9158.  @ott1186  You don't know my perspective but I'd say that the BBC has not changed over a long time. Political perspectives in the UK seem to have changed though. The BBC is not supposed to be 'neutral'. There is no such thing. The BBC is supposed to be 'balanced' but not in every single instance but balanced over a lot of instances. If you have evidence of bias, send it to the BBC chairman with your complaint. If more protest groups are labelled 'far right' that may mean that they are getting more publicity. You should be pleased. Not so much far left labelling because they don't get on the BBC so much or take to the streets to protest. Hard left is an alternative epithet to far left, and that is used too. It means the same thing. I don't get all of my info from the BBC and I doubt that as much as half of France is 'far right' or likely to vote for Le Pen. We shall see after the election, won't we?
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  9159.  @JTP_Trades  Have you tried searching 'hard left'. That is an alternative used, but the hard left or far left have not been in the news in the UK much recently, since the Tories and Labour do seem to dominate the news space - the Tories in particular.
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  9160.  @ott1186  Well, write to the BBC and complain. The reason I say that neutrality does not exist is because even when people think they are being neutral they can and do have unconscious bias. However their actions should be balanced in the sense of ensuring that views from one side of the political spectrum are balanced with views from another. As for Extinction Rebellion, they seem largely like middle class people from the shires, unlikely to be hard left voters, - more likely to be concerned about this single issue. After all, no one wants to face extinction, if they believe that's what we face, whether they are right wing or left wing. Who is pro extinction?
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  9161.  @ott1186  The word used in the BBC Charter is impartial. Impartial means treating all parties, rivals, or disputants equally; not partial; not biased; fair.'
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  9162.  @ott1186  As I said. Complain to the BBC if you think you have a case. She's rather pro Putin is Marine. I wonder why the right likes that old kleptocrat and mafia style boss. Are they aiming for that themselves?
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  9163.  @ott1186  Here's an example of the BBC being right wing. An interview with a representative of the Scottish Farmers Union edited out a reference to 'Brexit' and his concerns about its impact on farming. I'd also noticed that a different interview on radio 4, discussing price rises blamed supply issues and Covid but never mentioned the word Brexit. I emailed the BBC to ask if they'd been banned from using the word Brexit. Reply came there none. I'm pretty sure they'd have replied if they could have refuted that allegation.
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  9164.  @ott1186  The independent ONS has just produced a report on the effect of Brexit on the British economy, eliminating the effects of other factors, and it demonstrates the British economy is suffering badly from Brexit.
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  9165.  @ott1186  Here's stuff that's not reported on the BBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANzGwDxN50w and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHhjsgetenU and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3ApvYgLn9Y&t=148s
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  9166.  @ott1186  Watch Boris Johnson giving evidence to the Commons Liaison Committee. Towards the end he's asked about the cost of living, Brexit and when we can expect things to get back to normal. In reply he gave a load of waffle (grow more own food, global trading economy, encourage people to export more, blah blah blah, followed by him saying 'I cannot predict that'.
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  9167.  @ott1186  You're in Spain?
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  9168.  @ott1186  You think it treats him unfairly? Why should you be interested in the media in the UK if you are in Spain?
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  9169.  @ott1186  I've just been listening to the BBC news this morning and they referred to 'the far left' candidate in France who got 21% share of the first round of the vote. Bye bye ex pat. I don't suppose you have to listen to or watch the BBC or pay the licence fee, so your views are not really relevant.
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  9170. Brexit is like a horrible experiment that EU countries can learn from just by watching the results. I feel the schadenfreude on this channel.
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  9171.  @gnarfgnarf4004  The EU is only applying the standard trade rules that apply to all 3rd party countries (countries outside of the EU). In fact the UK is better off than most as it has a deal with the EU that avoids trade tariffs. Well, the government and voters only had 5 years to find out these rules and prepare for them.
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  9172.  @gnarfgnarf4004  These rules weren't made up to punish Britain. They are the standard rules that apply to 3rd party countries i.e those outside of the EU. People only had 4 years to find that out. In fact it could have been worse as Britain agreed a deal with the EU that avoided us having to pay tariffs on traded goods.
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  9173. This is essentially what the Tories are about, self protection, self enrichment and never mind everyone else. Also lazy and incompetent because they don't really want to govern, just to sit tight and amass wealth.
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  9174. If Republicans continue to behave this way, it will backfire badly on them.
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  9175. 'affliction' for dictators? Wrong word I think. 'Affinity' perhaps?
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  9176.  @ednammansfield8553  *throne not thrown
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  9177.  @donttouchyerbumnsniffit  Such as?
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  9178.  @CLOCKCHASER2222  'They're' 'You're'
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  9179.  @CLOCKCHASER2222  Who is the 'she' you are talking about?
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  9180.  @CLOCKCHASER2222  The pronoun for comments addressed to me is 'you'. Clearly you are ignorant of basic English usage, but then you've nothing worthwhile to say anyway.
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  9181.  @CLOCKCHASER2222  Says you.
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  9182. The Republicans are always waiting for the 'facts to come in' before considering any action. How many facts do they need considering the pattern is repeated over and over again and there are plenty of facts that have been gathered?
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  9183. Taxation is the price of civilisation. Wealthy men like Musk and Trump don't understand the implications of radically cutting public services. There will be social unrest if this continues and which side will the army come out on if called upon to suppress it, I wonder. Trump has insulted and threatened just about every government service including the FBI, the CIA and the military.
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  9184. Gosh, he really loves Mr Crosby.
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  9185. This reviewer does not know the film Spartacus it seems. It's not that his men are 'chanting his name'. It's that the Romans said they would pardon his men if they identified Spartacus otherwise they would all be crucified. Spartacus stands up to declare who he is in order to save his men, and all his men start declaring that they are Spartacus ('I'm Spartacus' etc). They would not give him away in order to save themselves. There's a story (maybe urban legend I don't know) that Kirk Douglas's brother once tried a career as a comedian. In London he wasn't getting a very good response and disappointed he tried the line. 'Do you know who I am? I'm Kirk Douglas's brother'. Whereupon an audience member stood up and said 'I'm Kirk Douglas's brother' and all the rest of the audience started standing up and saying it also.
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  9186. No. Take your sunglasses off.
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  9187. Read the very many similar questions and replies in the comments, if you can be bothered. I can't be bothered repeating myself.
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  9188. Well it's not about replicating people's actual looks. It's a drama. Henry VI in reality looked much worse than the actor here.
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  9189. @Openside 7 I think I know that, as I read his manifesto, but he didn't seem to get that message across. He should explain more how his policies are in everyone's interests in the UK (except maybe the wealthiest). It's an uphill struggle in any case with so much propaganda against him, but I'm not sure he helped himelf enough. He needs to sound more inclusive so that he reaches voters more broadly.
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  9190.  @janewright2800  Asking whether she had given Putin what he wanted is not negotiation. I think Corbyn is very well meaning but naive. He thinks that everyone is basically as nice as he is. If only that were true.
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  9191.  @reasonerenlightened2456  The answer is to have a successful economy in a country which produces stuff people want to buy and where workers are protected from the worst that capitalist systems can inflict on them and benefit from a fair share of the wealth they create. Labour's manifesto at the last election addressed these issues and proposed investment in British businesses especially green ones, and communications industries that would better allow people to work from home rather than moving down South to find work. That's not the aim of the Tories, which is to create as much wealth for their ilk at the expense of everyone else, regardless of the impact on the country. In spite of them always trumpeting their patriotism, they don't actually invest in British business - couldn't care less about that. Happy for foreign multi- nationals to buy it all.
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  9192.  @reasonerenlightened2456  I get your point. There is no perfect system that works perfectly but regulated capitalism with protections for workers including trade unions, combined with a democratic political system seems the least worst. The Scandinavian economic model results in those countries regularly topping the world happiness index.
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  9193.  @reasonerenlightened2456  Not all politicians are corrupt. It's not about faith. As I said it's about the least worst model, with the hope of progress and improvement.
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  9194.  @reasonerenlightened2456  Some of those ideas are bizarre. Experience has taught that dictatorship is an appalling model of government and tends to result in massive injustice and misery, and often also violence and cruelty. I agree about a basic income though.
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  9195.  @janewright2800  Absolutely not. Whatever gave you that idea?
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  9196.  @reasonerenlightened2456  That never lasts though. There is always a coup or power grab by the worst element. Besides which dictatorship can lead to injustice whatever form it takes. Look at the French Revolution which was horribly bloody and vengeful, and where the revolutionaries eventually turned on each other.
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  9197.  @reasonerenlightened2456  There is no perfect solution. The imperfection of men will always make it so. Your use of the word 'correct' is chilling. It reveals someone who sees the world in simplistic black and white terms.
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  9198.  @reasonerenlightened2456  It's not that I'm willing to accept imperfections. It's that perfection in human affairs does not exist and I've already explained why. If you don't understand that, what can I say?
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  9199. You know when you get ill with anything, it's as easy to get rid of. Just tell yourself you are not ill.
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  9200. * in connection with, not in connection to.
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  9201.  @Queen.lizard.1947  But no one's in the Olympic league that the Tories are now in.
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  9202.  @Queen.lizard.1947  Agreed.
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  9203. A candidate with half a brain is half a brain better than Trump.
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  9204.  @eli-greyz1068  Is he dealing with Covid 19 though. Hospitals have stopped doing other work to concentrate on Covid 19 patients and keep other patients away from the risk of getting it.
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  9205.  @eli-greyz1068  That's so. I'm a cancer patient myself and was due for an operation this week but it's been postponed to keep me out of the hospital. I've no further date for it.
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  9206. Coming to the UK soon under secret Brexit trade deals?
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  9207. She lies about Trump never lying.
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  9208. Who he? Do you mean Ian Paisley jr or Van Morrison?
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  9209.  @mrsillywalk  You are far sighted. 🌹
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  9210. Some here have criticised her for seeming to be nearly crying. Funny how people interpret things so differently.
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  9211.  Kaleidoscopic Krusader  Rubbish.
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  9212. It's a take off of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights video - the red dress version
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  9213.  @georgewright9914  No it's not a lie. I agree with your first sentence. I just didn't go into the history in my comment but I have elsewhere on this page. I didn't want to repeat myself. Yes Brown allowed regulation that was too light but the opposition Tory Party at the time wanted even lighter regulation so there was no significant opposition calling for tougher regulation in the UK before the crash. After the crash Brown decided that the banks in the UK needed to be supported to maintain people's savings and also to prevent a complete collapse of confidence in the capitalist financial systems, that would otherwise have caused the collapse of countries economies. Realising that it was not just a UK issue and the solution could not just be a UK solution he travelled to the EU and the USA to persuade them of the need for them also to prop up their banks.
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  9214. *Swinson
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  9215. @Martin Baldwin-Edwards What are you on about?
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  9216.  ROBERT ANDERSON  Yep. Some people have funny surnames.
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  9217. @Martin Baldwin-Edwards I did notice that some people are so thick that they don't know her name, even when it's written on the video, or perhaps they just can't read.
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  9218. My cat.
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  9219. Putin's not right about the Nazis being the last to ban books. Stalin also banned books and he lived until 1953. Russia is currently banning any narrative about the war that isn't Putin's.
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  9220.  @GUNN3R1990  And so Jew hating Marxist is an 'oxymoron'. i.e a contradiction in terms Why did I have to spell that out for you?
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  9221.  @GUNN3R1990  As Marx said, capitalism has inherent contradictions, but let's not elevate this conversation above insult.
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  9222.  @GUNN3R1990  Well his ideas have influenced socialist thinking and ideas and in Scandinavian countries such ideas have been put into good practice and those countries come high on the happiness index results of the happiness surveys . Marx always thought the changes he envisaged would happen first in advanced economic countries because those are one that could make them work. In fact people in undeveloped or underdeveloped countries took on his ideas first, and they did not work so well. He was not good at prediction but he was good at analysis and working out how the capitalist system works.
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  9223.  @GUNN3R1990  I want a mixed economy with certain things nationalised for everyone's benefit such as the NHS, Railways and public transport in general and the postal system (bring Royal Mail back into public ownership) and the Utility Companies. and a decent welfare state, which is what happens in Scandinavian countries, and that is what the Labour Party wants too. Read their Manifesto. It does not argue for complete state control and has never done so as far as I'm aware. The Tory newspapers like to put the 'fear of God' into people over the Labour Party because their wealthy owners are terrified that Labour will tax them a bit more and close tax loopholes which they exploit.
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  9224.  @GUNN3R1990  You've not read the Manifesto and don't seem to know about investment for growth which is part of every capitalist system and where investment pays for itself. The government could have borrowed in recent years at historically low rates but instead they pushed the public sector into expensive PPI schemes that were totally inflexible. Portugal and the USA survived the 2008 world banking crash without ever using austerity as a method of trying to do so. Mao and Castro were leaders of countries that had no history of democracy and still don't. They were no angels but what went before them was worse. I would pay more tax for Labour's programme and a fairer system because the type of society you live in and how pleasant it is to live there is affected by such things. I never asked this government to keep cutting my tax and keep cutting public services.
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  9225.  @GUNN3R1990  No, I didn't say that about Venezuela. You keep trying to put words in my mouth. The situation in Venezuela horrifies me. I've not heard people in the Labour party support Venezuela currently but if they do I'd disagree with them. I'm tired of having to answer your false assumptions about what I think. It's very wearing, so this is my last comment.
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  9226. Is that true?
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  9227. I'm guessing a reference to WWII where Jews in countries under Nazi Control were largely exterminated.
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  9228.  @NS-pt9rr  O wave the magic wand and do it immediately. That's not how things work in the real world, but this particular method is the worst value imaginable. A £600m deal to evict 300 people (£2m per person) and Rwanda has not obligation to detain them in Rwanda. In return Rwanda can send as many of it's people to the UK as it wants - no limit.
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  9229. It's already making lots of difference. That's why the Tories are hating it.
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  9230. You know it's Swinson right?
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  9231. This site is totally biased and it also tells lies.
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  9232. He was much more polite to the Dad, than the daughter and lying through his teeth at the same time.
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  9233. I wouldn't worry about a certain amount of misreporting. Given the scale of the problems in Brazil I would think that's the least of your worries.
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  9234.  @debradelarue9717  Why worry about a bit of misreporting. That's missing the bigger picture. Here's a snippet of the bigger picture. Brazil can't be much better than this. 'India added to UK travel red list as world-record cases reported | ITV News' - YouTube
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  9235.  @francesvetter8652  You can look up the ingredients in vaccines. It's not a secret. Recent research has seemed to suggest that one virus can push out another. For instance a cold virus can get rid of Covid. It's a battle of the viruses in a human body, so maybe flu is a virus that gets pushed out when Covid is spreading.
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  9236.  @girlonfire2.076  I think I read that they can be less infective, but you'd need to google it to find what information there is about that.
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  9237.  @lor6632  Good hygiene prevents a lot of diseases so the extra hand washing, mask wearing and lockdowns have no doubt saved people from other illnesses, but there are still a lot of people with diseases not prevented by good hygiene though some could be prevented by better weight control and better diets. Sadly many people with chronic diseases are among those who did not survive Covid.
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  9238.  @accidentalcatalyst1003  I think they just simplified the rules to make things easier to report consistently.
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  9239.  @lor6632  I don't understand that sentence. Is something missing that you meant to write? What about Brazil?
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  9240.  @beati7706  Well I think I'll follow the science and the medics on that rather than a 'theory' from an unqualified person https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfv9zsKJquk&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=67
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  9241.  @keywestcatlady  What is a brick in the wall?
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  9242.  @keywestcatlady  Maximum protection is not achieved until 3 weeks after the second vaccination.
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  9243.  @sophietyrrell3131  Would you rather end up like India?
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  9244.  @tomsawyer4901  Lol.
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  9245.  ShariaFreeUK  What do you mean they can't stand the scrutiny of other scientists? Do you no know how science works? Their research and work has to be open to 'peer review' which means it is open to review by other scientists. I think the scientists' advice worked when we followed it, and look at the situation of those countries who did not follow it - India, Brazil, USA under Trump. I know which situation I'd rather be in. The scientists are qualified by the way, otherwise they could not be scientists.
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  9246.  ShariaFreeUK  Well if you had no rules about it and left it up to judgement that would also result in inconsistencies.
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  9247.  ShariaFreeUK  And your scientific qualifications are? From your comments I can tell you don't even know how science works.
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  9248. Some people keep pointing out that the percentage of people dying from Covid in relation to case numbers is small, but they are not giving credit to the NHS for saving people. In India more and younger people are dying because they can get no treatment.
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  9249. Not Truss. She's too dim.
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  9250. Take a lesson from the UK Brexit Referendum. The 'Remain' position was expected to win, so many people didn't bother voting and Brexit won instead. They won by 4% (52-48). If you don't vote, you can't win.
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  9251. Why do they assume that the younger generation will live longer? Will they be doing more to protect the health of the population? I doubt it. Food full of fat and sugar. Little time for exercise, and unrestricted pollution, not tackling the effects of global warming, and free availability of guns whilst sending divisive and hate arousing messages about divisions in the population will do nothing to increase life expectancy.
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  9252. Tories borrowed 450bn to deal with Covid (as he says) and funnelled quite a lot of it to their friends and supporters for fraudulent or non performing contracts
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  9253. Don't fuel his paranoia. He's likely to do something outrageous like start a civil war.
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  9254. @Gary Laneve Well he said he won't accept the election result if he loses - so what's he going to do? If he refuses to go after he's lost, because he refuses to accept that he's lost, what actions will that provoke - or if he claims to have won but has won on the basis of some fraud ( considering that he has placed one of his largest donors in charge of the mail service, and is refusing to fund it to deliver extra mail, from mailed in votes, on time). If he also starts to believe there might be a 'coup' he could take violent action that might provoke a civil war. The man is unstable.
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  9255. No. Shakespeare.
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  9256. Why is he wearing a onesie?
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  9257. He'd lost a lot of weight at this time.
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  9258. Looking pleased with yourself before achieving anything or in spite of achieving very little seems to be a prerequisite of the Tory Party.
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  9259. He should have. He was born in the USA to English parents. English is his native tongue and he was expensively educated in England and grew up there.
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  9260.  @danieltenderenda4120  His ancestry is Muslim (from Turkey) but also Jewish and German, English and French. He is a descendant of royalty George II . Whatever someone's ancestry it's got nothing to do with their ability to speak the language they grew up with and were educated in.
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  9261. *Scot
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  9262.  @um02122  That's O.K.
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  9263. You are fake.
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  9264. Get him a bowl of milk then
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  9265.  @dianecameron137 She represented her constituents and community. As she was the first black woman elected to Parliament she brought a new perspective to Parliament.
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  9266.  Steve Terry  What do you mean?
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  9267. Because the government does not really want to payout any more to people if they can possibly avoid it. It doesn't fit with their ideology of small government and leaving individuals to stand or fall on their own feet. They might have to do something in order to try and get elected again but for the moment the leadership contenders are trying to impress Tory MPs and 160,000 Tory party members who don't believe in handouts or support. As for Boris he's off on holiday saying it's nothing to do with him, but he's basically in support of the no payout line.
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  9268.  @Truth_Seeker_UK  That's not true. You only get that impression if you read right leaning media and harping on that is designed to divide potential opposition to government. Look at Labour's last manifesto. I don't think you'll find much if anything in there concerning identity politics. People are now so primed to read that into everything. If I make a general comment on youtube, I've been surprised that some people think that because I'm a woman my comments only refer to, or are about, or on behalf of, women. That is their mindset now.
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  9269.  @Truth_Seeker_UK  Oh well (face palm) what people obsess about there isn't the same as the policies set out at election time. There's nothing wrong about being inclusive though. It's good for social coherence. It would be nice to know what policies Starmer favours though. Hopefully he'll clarify soon. Trouble is Tories will have spent all the money and left a large debt by the next election as well as permanently f*ing up the economy with Brexit, so it's hard to get back on track.
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  9270.  @monicawarner4091  Most people don't read Manifestos. The Labour one unlike the Tory one was costed. A lot of the projects were investment ones, just like people borrow to invest in a house which they expect to increase in value in the long run, but again most people don't understand economics do they? The Labour manifesto was about investment for growth and actually covered a period longer than 5 years. Spending would not have happened all in one Parliament. Now this government has spent far more than Labour's manifesto would have cost, but not for any investment or growth. The Tories always say Labour's plans are unaffordable and they they steal some of them and find the money tree themselves, especially for their supporters, friends and lobbyists. They still haven't published the £37bn of no competition contracts, in spite of a legal requirement to do so. I don't think Labour would have made such a bad job of handling the pandemic as they would have prepared for it as many reports had advised the government, followed the science early on, and closed borders and air travel when necessary. The Tory policies are resulting in not enough health workers or care workers, and not enough HGV drivers or not enough people to pick crops in the fields. I watched a BBC report today about how the British economy hasn't bounced back since Covid, unlike the USA, and unlike other European countries. The obvious reason is Brexit which is a horrendous mess but you don't read about it much in the media and the BBC didn't mention it. They seem to be protecting the government now that they have a conservative appointed as Chairman and one as Director General. The last Labour government's financial problems were due to a global banking crisis with the government spending billions to bail out the banks. The regulation of banks was too light but Tories had wanted even lighter regulation, and if they'd not bailed out the banks there would have been a crisis of confidence in capitalism and people's savings would have been lost too.
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  9271.  @nihilistcentraluk442  That won't necessarily translate into policy though. Activists are always more 'out there' than the party leadership itself. I'm sure you'd find that true of Tory activists too, but on different issues.
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  9272. Lawns grow back.
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  9273. Another reason for 'hanging onto' the framework of Kings and Queens, is that we don't see life from an ordinary person's point of view for centuries, because ordinary people were illiterate and had no power and no ability to put their point of view with the exception of the peasants revolt (1381?).
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  9274. This is a biased report. Owen Jones didn't make it black and white. He condemned the attack on Israel. That was the first thing he did and he listened while Margaret Hodges spoke whereas she accused him of saying nothing about the attack on Israel and kept interrupting him to stop him saying anything about the long term context for this conflict.
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  9275.  @yyuammie  I had wild strawberries growing in my garden like weeds. It's been hard getting rid of them as I've just been pulling them up. They like the shade. The leaves grow bigger in the shade, but the berries are small, gritty in texture, and flavourless.
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  9276. Queens of 'Yerp'.
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  9277. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat their mistakes.
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  9278.  @ancietman  No. Corbyn has never been frightened of polls or fighting elections. Theresa May called an election thinking he would be a walkover and she lost her majority and became dependent on the DUP, and this was well before her Brexit strategy was seen to have failed.
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  9279.  @BrandonLee-zx6wu  They've always done that traditionally, until Tony Blair's time. It's in acknowledgement of the Party's Socialist origins, but Tony Blair abolished clause 4 of the Labour party constitution which was the socialist clause. I don't think it's been re-instated since. To determine whether a party is communist it's their policies that count. I've not heard Labour ever propose to abolish all private property as per Communism.
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  9280.  @supahnubz  Independence in today's world is a bit illusory. The realpolitik is that big countries and economies dominate both politically and economically. If we want a trading future after a hard Brexit, Trump's USA will be the dominant power for us instead of the EU. I'd rather have the EU.
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  9281. consequences, even
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  9282.  @Chadhogan111  You can't change the geography of the continent. You are European because you live within the continent called Europe.
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  9283. Will Fox News be publicising this?
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  9284.  @jkfecke  Latin too.
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  9285.  @Kingdom_Of_Dreams  Even Old English comes from other languages. The only native strand to English, if any native strand still survives in modern English, would be of Celtic origin.
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  9286.  @JohnJigsaw420  Here are some words from Celtic origin. When they entered the language I'm not sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_English_words_of_Celtic_origin
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  9287.  @bunnyben5607  Some words come from the English being conquered - like the French words in the language. Language changes through contact with other cultures and especially powerful influences. For instance English the world over is becoming more Amercanised now. Many words in English come from the Latin when Latin was a lingua franca in Europe, stemming from Roman influence and preserved by the church in monasteries, especially as literacy in other languages was often lost in the dark ages. Words from British colonization of other countries are fewer than those other influences.
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  9288. Powers within the law of the land in a democratic country. That's not tyranny.
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  9289.  @connorl7432  Labour says it will vet everyone coming in illegally but since the Tories were not operating any process for that, it will take time to set up and deal with the backlog.
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  9290.  @connorl7432  What Syrian Isis member would that be? Is that factual?
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  9291.  @ott1186  Are you saying that British unemployed would rather not take those jobs but stay on unemployment benefit? Not a very flattering picture of the native population. Poverty among the native population has also increased shoplifting. It's not an ethnic crime. Immigration increases demand for goods an services and grows economies.
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  9292.  @CloudLamberts  If wages went up in those industries so would prices or some businesses would close. Some people would gain in wages. Consumers would lose in terms of prices. My daughter worked in a chain restaurant and she thought the pay was pretty good for her (single, no dependants). It was significantly over minimum wage, but she was the only native English worker there. The other workers wondered why she took the job. They said if they spoke English as well as she did, they would get a better job, and most English people seem to agree unless they live in an area where there's a job shortage.
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  9293.  @lemsy-bq5rl  Multiculturalism? Does that explain Ian Brady and Myra Hindley and plenty of other native child murderers, including parents who kill their own children?
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  9294.  @harrycallahan1  I don't think machete wielders are taking low paid jobs. More likely they are earning from the drugs trade. The Tories, by the way, decided on no import checks after Brexit.
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  9295.  @ott1186  Wages have been going up this year. House prices are not increasing much because when Truss crashed the economy, interest rates went up and people could no longer afford mortgages. ('In 2024, UK employees will benefit from a 4.4% pay rise. The median monthly earnings across all sectors in the UK were £2,334, an increase of 6.4% compared to 2023. The National Living Wage will increase to £11.44 per hour from 1 April 2024')
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  9296. What are the consequences or risks associated with an intravascular injection? Pfizer is being used as the booster in the UK. Is it safe considering the issues recently identified with the trials? Is it o.k to stick to the same vaccine for the booster as for the original vaccine? e.g. Astra Zeneca?
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  9297. They let you do it because you fall for the same old liars every time.
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  9298.  @hugostieglitz238  I used to work in the public sector. Before that I did various jobs in the private sector.
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  9299.  @SL-kx1uq  'Plebs'? There are Covid deniers from all tiers of the social strata.
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  9300. Well he would, wouldn't he?
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  9301.  @chaoscorsair  He failed 8 times.
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  9302. Selling the family silver again. For a pittance again? Value for taxpayers or ripping them off? Dumbing down? Removing sources of challenge to the government? Putin sold off all Russia's state assets which went into the hands of his cronies, the oligarchs. Look how Russia turned out. No challenge from the media allowed now over the Ukraine war. I expect Boris would love that level of control.
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  9303. Don't speak too soon. We haven't Brexited yet.
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  9304. Wow. Do you not know that countries compete as single nations?
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  9305. MAGA Americans want their prejudices confirmed, that's all. These people must not see any source of economic facts. If Democrats wanted to end democracy or the constitution they would be outraged but they are o.k with Donald Trump doing it or just filter out his statements on that.
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  9306. She actually said that Hunt shares her views on the economy. Either she's not being honest or she's delusional or he's changed or she just means they both want growth. The Tory Party is so ideologically divided how are they ever going to coalesce around a single set of coherent policies. For heaven's sake don't bring George Osborne back. Rigid thinkers, Truss, May and Thatcher have all been rigid thinkers. The least rigid of which was Thatcher.
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  9307. Those who criticise the BBC for intending to charge the over 75s (which the government shoved onto the BBC without any funding for it) are also often the ones calling for the BBC to be defunded or not paying their own licence fees which is both illogical and rank hypocrisy.
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  9308. So please stop starting sentences with So.
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  9309. The deluded 1%. He thinks he and his ilk are the solution people need. He says ' It's because of the government that people don't have jobs'. Well the private sector makes people redundant and they did so in Victorian times of high capitalism even before the government had any involvement in people's lives other than to provide prisons and workhouses.
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  9310. There is no special relationship. It's always been a British fantasy. Britain has less global influence now than when it was in the EU. Trade deals take years to do properly. The idea that a US trade deal could be done quickly is nonsense. We could not do one anyway without dropping our standards to their levels. The EU would not have to do that because they are not desperate for a deal like Britain. The thumbnail image labels Biden a traitor but he is not a traitor. To be a traitor to Britain, you have to be British.
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  9311. Edward IV was outwitted by Louis XI of France. Edward made the mistake of supporting Louis' enemies the Burgundians. In the end Louis shafter them both.
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  9312. I had growths on my thyroid. Thankfully they turned out to be benign after being removed, but there was no visible outward sign. I mentioned in passing to my doctor that when I raised both arms my face would go red. I discovered this while doing Pilates classes. I thought the doctor would think I was silly, but she sent me for a scan and that's how it was discovered. The growths must have been pressing on blood vessels when my arms were raised - hence the red face.
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  9313. unarguably
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  9314. William acts like he wants it.
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  9315. Where have I seen images like this before? Oh yes. Images from the 1930s and 1940s showing how Nazis treated Jews in the streets.
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  9316. Why?
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  9317. I disagree. It doesn 't necessarily mean the casting excluded any group. She was probably the best actress they auditioned and that's why she got the part. This isn't a film. It's a TV series of Shakespeare plays. Why is race the most important characteristic to be accurate about? Shakespeare plays can never be 100% because the original characters are dead and no single person will be exactly the same as the original no matter what their race. With Shakespeare plays, you have to use your imagination.
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  9318.  @nativevirginian8344  I never said she wasn't, but that doesn't mean she can't be played by any actress in a play. That's what acting is - being someone else during the play.
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  9319. Probably a Tory donor.
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  9320. You've misunderstood this. There's been a hug backlash against the Daily Mail for this and Boris Johnson has condemned it.
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  9321. I think parents should short change the energy companies before they let their children starve.
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  9322.  @TheListOf  No reasons could justify murder on that scale in a so called 'democracy'. No reasons are needed. The common factor is that they were seen as threatening to the regime just by protesting or doing their jobs. The corrupt, kleptocratic and shameless regime will then seek to cover up their crimes with cover stories.
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  9323.  @TheListOf  I'm not Sherlock Holmes but there's plenty of proof if you look for it. These people who died, died in the way described and they were engaged in the activities/professions described. Why not look up their death certificates since I feel sure you are a Russian. I've no interest in communicating further with someone who seeks to defend the indefensible and challenge well established evidenced facts.
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  9324.  @TheListOf  Yes lots of proof. The Bellingcat site traced the Russian Novichok poisoners of the Skripals in Salisbury from their CCTV images walking in Salisbury on the day of the poisoning to their online records in the Russian secret service. The records showed one had recently been given an award by Putin. The proof of the London polonium poisoning of Litvinenko was the trail of polonium trail including the trail from the hotel where the Russians who met Litvinenko had been staying to the airplane they took back to Russia. You can refuse to believe any evidence if you've half a mind to, as half a mind is all you'll need.
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  9325.  @TheListOf  Not so. That's disinformation from you.
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  9326.  @TheListOf  MSM does count. They have more to lose by telling lies. You obviously don't know how the media works in a democracy. The Russians also told stupid lies about having flown all the way from Russia to England and travelled to Salisbury, and back to Russia, just to see the spire of Salisbury cathedral. That's enough now. You are obviously a well paid stooge. Don't pester me any more.
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  9327.  @irishandscottish1829  That poison in that form was developed in that form to allow it to be used as a poison on people rather than in weapons. Only the Russian state developed it in that form and state weapons don't get into the hands of assassins by accident. Besides Russia had a motive to kill the Skripals - ever seen that interview by Putin where he said treason was the one thing he could not forgive? What were the 2 Russian agents doing in Salisbury on that day? Also Russia has a track record of killing political opponents, the UK does not. Why do you think they flee from Russia and desire to come to Britain?
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  9328. I like the band that named itself as a historical joke. It was Edward II and the red hot polkas (sic) They did polka music.
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  9329. Much of this is what happens in an emergency when speed of action is seen to be of the essence.
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  9330. I had 2 black cat brothers. I used to call one Monkey as a nickname when he was being cheeky. His real name was Sean and his brother was Seamus. If someone in the family was ill they used to lie either side of the sick person in bed and recovery was usually swift.
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  9331. I read somewhere that when she was dying she had a sore or ulcer in her throat that made it hard for her to swallow. I'm not sure the ring removal operation would have caused her death but as it happened a week before her death it's more likely that her body was swelling at that time, which could be due to liver or kidney failure. Elizabeth also had black teeth from her love of sugar and as they didn't know it was bad for them, anyone who could afford it would probably not restrain themselves. Could she have had diabetes? It sounds like she may have lost her hair and sustained organ damage due to the lead and mercury in her make-up.
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  9332. 'I've always been a right wing Conservative'. Well there's your problem.
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  9333.  @wolfiestreet6899  The correct tax can also be fair though or perceived by the majority as such.
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  9334. No. Skin colour in this drama is not significant except perhaps as a symbol that Margaret was a foreigner.
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  9335.  @jokkergar  They didn't perhaps 'decide to change her race' so much as hire the best actress in the auditions, but her race does act as a metaphor for the fact that Margaret, as a Frenchwoman, was perceived as a foreigner and mistrusted by people on that account.
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  9336. They have said the Astra Zeneca vaccination has so far 100% prevented hospital admissions with Covid for those who have had it.
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  9337.  @jflax2195  The US doesn't use the Astra Zeneca vaccine, but Pfizer and Moderna so the CDC data won't be on Astra Zeneca. (P.S I just looked on the VAERS site and it said this. 'The UK has so far received 143 reports of death following vaccination—none of which were caused by it. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) says: “The majority of these reports were in elderly people or people with underlying illness. Review of individual reports and patterns of reporting does not suggest the vaccine played a role in the death.”
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  9338.  @paulwilson9763  Some of them would end up in hospital.
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  9339.  @paulwilson9763  Yes it's common to get headaches and be tired and have a sore arm for a couple of days but that won't kill people.
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  9340.  @paulwilson9763  Yes, I agree it has to be a choice.
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  9341. I don't like the teeth. Freddie Mercury may have had prominent teeth but when his face was in repose, they never looked too big for his mouth. The teeth for this actor make him look as though he's struggling to close his lips.
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  9342. For all he cares his workers can die as long as he gets his profits. Sounds like he and Amber Heard were a good match.
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  9343. *their.....their
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  9344.  @jdb47games  You're right. My maths was right off. I was 17 at the time. I'm sure it was worth the wait until Cairo. I don't think I've ever seen such an impressive exhibition.
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  9345. As a historian I would have thought that Neil Oliver should know that turbulent times and suffering for the majority have been the norm throughout history rather than the exception. We have been lucky to escape such troubled times for so long. Personally I prefer having to wear a mask than having had to live through WWI and WW2. We need to get things in proportion and not feel too sorry for ourselves.
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  9346.  @dariusus9870  I know both of them. You clearly don't.
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  9347.  @dariusus9870  What is the MJ interview? From these comments it seems that people just don't get British humour and are taking this interview too seriously.
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  9348.  @dariusus9870  Oh you mean Michael Jackson. Who do you mean is the disgusting character - this interviewer - Krishnan Guru Murthy? It wasn't him who interviewed MJ, it was Martin Bashir.
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  9349. He's not defending the actions of HAMAS. He condemned the attack on Israel but he's talking about the historical context. The Palestinians would like some rights, same as any Western population would.
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  9350.  @allanarnold3619  It's already allowed on a voluntary basis where it does not conflict with English law but I doubt that those escaping from tyrannical countries and experiencing democracy will want to go back to hand chopping etc. A few might but they will never make a majority.
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  9351. She's not arguing on legal grounds at all but just on political grounds. She needs to listen occasionally. When Trump tries to manipulate and fiddle the election results, he doesn't want polls that contradict the manipulated result. The more desperate Trump gets, the more his PR people are sounding unhinged.
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  9352.  @coolhand4598  They'll have a hard job finding the nazis in Ukraine.
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  9353. In appearance and but not in his political views.
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  9354.  @julian-xd6iz  O what a crime? If only the Tory useless and corrupt had merely had a problem with their shoes.
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  9355. Why are people keen to use a medicine developed for use on animals that has not be tested for humans?
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  9356. He's probably only second to Sunak in having no political common sense or judgement. I worry about his position on Northern Ireland too. From what he's said previously I can imagine him caving in to the DUP. Even the Tories aren't (so far) caving in to DUP blackmail. As a lawyer all he has to do is follow the rules of law. Politically he seems all at sea. I think he's also terrified of what the Tory media can do to tear him to bits publicly for saying something unpopular in the run up to the election. He's desperate to get Labour into power.
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  9357. I'm amazed that 91 thousand people have clicked on this video to hear BoJo's lies and really believe them.
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  9358.  @Be.fair.to.all.people_  Think what that means though. The problems that people face in the UK are not the fault of the EU but of the UK government which decides 99% of UK spending. In fact the EU upholds many standards and rights including workers rights. Workers will be more vulnerable to global vultures once we come out of the EU. People backing Boris are making millions out of 'shorting' UK performance post no deal Brexit i.e betting that it will go downhill and the Tories want us to be more like Singapore where workers rights are not as good. Also Tories will sell the UK population out to get a deal from Trump by accepting the Us's lower food, safety and health standards for goods imported from there. Sovereignty never operates in isolation nor will it solve the UKs problems by itself.
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  9359.  @TheNDofUO  I don't think those who voted for it understand that.
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  9360. You must be right because you say so.
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  9361.  @deadlevelwillie  They're all delusional.
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  9362. How is Bolsonaro getting on? We don't hear much from him now, but I did hear he said he has mold in his lungs now.
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  9363. Both her hands were purple looking though. Not just one.
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  9364. woman. There's only one of her thank goodness.
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  9365. Who owned these buildings and who failed to regulate the landlordism? This was before the age when people could vote or any party stood on policies to improve their lot.
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  9366. Strange pronunciation of Rutherford. The th is voiced.
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  9367. The thing that most frightens me about Liz Truss is that she seems to enjoy publicly baiting Putin. That's a dangerous game to play with a man who won't tolerate it and whose advisors are urging him to bomb England (London in fact). She doesn't need to shoot her mouth off about him in that way in order to carry out Britain's policy of support for Ukraine. Don't bait the bear.
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  9368.  @BruceMethven  That was necessary to keep businesses going but at the same time there was massive fraud in the Furlough scheme which the Tories admitted but declined to recover. Also the eat out to help out scheme is now known to have helped the virus spread.
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  9369. Horribly unhealthy life shortening food, if you eat this kind of thing every day - so much stodge and fat.
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  9370. @auntsally7790 When was that?
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  9371. How do you know, they've not been in power for 14 years, and when they were they did a lot. They'll know also that they can't behave like the Tories if they want to stay in power.
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  9372.  @XMan-qu5kl  more likely to
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  9373.  @rogerbennett9641  He ran them well and he was well liked by everybody who worked with him. Of course the civil servants do the day to day running and all the preparation work but Ministers make the important decisions and he was competent and intelligent unlike many current Ministers. Thatcher made the big changes in the NHS and he was largely following her line. Later massive changes were made by Lansley under Cameron's watch. Both of these created problems for the NHS. Clarke was largely supportive of the NHS
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  9374.  @rogerbennett9641  I think he's more on the 'one nation Tory' side of the party, not that there are many of them left. His views are not extreme. It's people with stronger characters and views that tend to do the most memorable things, but we wouldn't want another Hitler would we? I wouldn't want another Thatcher, and Churchill also has strong critics among Britain's mining community. A 'great' politician in my estimation, would be one who, as a minimum, creates the best situation for the greatest number of people (measured by the 'happiness index') and runs things efficiently and well - not some raving megalomaniac. That seems to be a tall order now. My favourite P.M. was the rather self-effacing Clement Attlee, though he will always be remembered for creating the NHS and nationalised industries and rebuilding Britain after WW2.
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  9375.  @sammyd7857  I listened to a video from this guy but since he usually produces at least one video a day if not more, I'm finding it hard to track down the exact video it was on. Here is an example but I don't think it's the right one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61hZJZKSJVA
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  9376.  @kevinbillington9773  Was it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfby9S0Eolg&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=4&t=220s
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  9377.  @sammyd7857  This is my source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfby9S0Eolg&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=4&t=220s
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  9378.  @superseven220  I didn't think that's what France wanted. That's a shock. I expect that's where the UK will be heading next after a hard Brexit. It's the pressures of globalisation on agriculture.
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  9379. * Title: from not for
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  9380. The subtitles wrote 'rejected' instead of 'ejected' which is something different. Johnson hasn't yet won a vote in Parliament. In the Parliamentary vote clip, the subtitles should say 'noes' not 'nose'. The subtitles didn't pick up the word 'dither'. The speaker is saying 'Order' not 'Oh duh'. It's Colin Hall not Colleen Hall. It's not 'They just stay dead'. It's 'Don't gesticulate'. It's not 'Rent sparrows.Yeah tricks'. It's 'Don't rant. Spare us the theatrics''. It's not 'hey y'all' It's 'behave yourself'.
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  9381.  @stevenaustin8274  Yes if people knew about it but many didn't because they were not notified individually.
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  9382.  @steveohara2919  It would have been adequate if that's what the government had done but they did not do it by individual notification as required, as the Ombudsman found. That's why many people didn't know because not everyone is a news hound.
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  9383.  @alanwilton6806  They didn't have 20 years. They should have been notified individually when the change was decided as would have been normal government procedure for significant pension changes and that's what the Ombudsman found. So many were never aware of the change. Women's careers are much more broken up than men's because of home and childcare responsibilities and sometimes caring for parents or ill husbands. So for most women their pay was less than men's over the course of their careers. More women also did lower paid jobs than men because they didn't have the career trajectory to give them better job and promotion opportunities for reasons I've mentioned above.
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  9384. This dog looks overfed. No wonder he doesn't want to move. Get him checked over by the vet and get him on a sensible diet and exercise regime.
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  9385. Isolation seems to have worked for China. People don't easily take in information unless it's very simple, repeated and easy to do.
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  9386.  @leevancleefe988  After reading your comment, I found this https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3881683. If true it's a hideous crime. I am not defending the Chinese government. I was only saying that isolation seems to have worked in countries that practised it, though it took time to work.
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  9387.  @leevancleefe988  My access to youtube messages seems to have been blocked via a certain route (my normal one) after my response to you. I found another avenue of access but that's disturbing. Is it some form of censorship I wonder.
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  9388. Crimo by name. Criminal by nature.
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  9389.  @steveazyb2595  Luckily we don't have commercial breaks as often as you do, but that's another bad thing that will probably happen.
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  9390. She should have grabbed his hand and held it to stop it rising up her leg. If that wasn't enough she could have squeezed it very hard or bent his fingers backwards.
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  9391. It's a made up word because it sounds funnier in English.
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  9392.  @chriswilde7246  A spoiled vote is an ignored voter. Better to vote for a smaller party as the main parties do take note of their national share of the vote, and how many votes nationally they are losing to other parties, so that can affect policy indirectly sometimes.
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  9393.  @chriswilde7246  O.K. Start your own party or continue to be ignored is the sad reality.
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  9394. Still focussing on this when the Tory government is planning to turn us into a third world country economically from which only a rich elite benefits - that's the elephant in the room. They do rely on people blaming immigrants for this.
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  9395. You noticed.
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  9396. Sky news Australia has always been anti Biden and pro Trump.
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  9397. The saying is 'spills the beans' not 'spills the tea'.
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  9398. Rome is my favourite. It's gripping, exciting and intelligent and the acting is great.
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  9399. Is everyone aware of the new ID requirements in order to vote in the next election? If not, I fear many people will find themselves disenfranchised when they turn up a the voting booth and it will affect the poor and the young most because of the way the ID system is devised.
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  9400. Anyone who uses the word 'woke' as a trigger word should be asked to say what it means. I guarantee they won't be able to define it because it's just used as a bogey word to describe anything they don't like or disagree with.
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  9401. The gadgets are named after the fruit, not the other way around.
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  9402. It's cheaper than many TV subscription services.
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  9403. Arlene pretends nothing has changed by the election. She's got a cheek to mention 'consent from both sides of the Community' being needed for the NI protocol as the DUP never signed up to the Good Friday Agreement either but that didn't stop them from taking part in the Stormont system it created. In fact the DUP did sign up to the protocol. The DUP lost votes to the Alliance because most people in NI are content to have the protocol as it gives NI the best of both worlds in terms of trade and their economy is now booming. Arlene and the DUP don't like it for political reasons because they think it will make a united Ireland more likely, but they did vote for Brexit and the GFA means there was never going to be a hard border in Ireland, so customs checks elsewhere were inevitable. The British government signed up to the protocol and the DUP supported them at the time. I wish there were some interviewers who remembered these facts and used them to challenge the nonsensical stance of the DUP in interviews.
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  9404. In the UK.
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  9405. Michael Heseltine meant that Enoch Powell made a racist speech, not an anti-racist speech, but then again he is getting old now.
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  9406. Hello Russian bot.
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  9407.  @paulhaley5009  It's outrageous and unjust (By the way you've invented a sweet term muming law, instead of mum in law).
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  9408.  @paulhaley5009  O.K.
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  9409.  @paulhaley5009  Don't worry or feel terrible. I didn't think your comment was rude, and I'm not a snowflake that gets easily upset. 😊😊👍👍
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  9410. No.
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  9411. It would surely depend on whether other members of your household are taking the same precautions. Don't forget mask wearing when answering the door, 2 metre distancing and hand washing. Those are the 3 key things apart from staying at home.
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  9412. You do sometimes wonder if people deliberately set these scenarios up. Somehow the commentary doesn't sound very authentic. He's too self congratulatory for one thing.
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  9413. If anyone's a worse liar than Boris Johnson, it's Vladimir Putin.
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  9414. From the video Trump posted, he doesn't look to be as ill as Boris Johnson was when he got Covid, but it's too early to be sure, and he has access to remedies that were not available then.
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  9415. I always thought transgender meant you felt you were in the wrong body and I've not heard Eddie Izzard ever say that. Previously I've heard him say he was an 'Executive transvestite', that is, he likes to wear women's clothes, but not all the time. He varies. Is the meaning of the word 'transgender' changing or being used in different ways now? Is it just about who you identify as now and not necessarily about wanting to change the sex of your body. It's confusing.
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  9416. Who cares what he wishes. He's an oaf.
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  9417. So when will they end targets for sanctioning benefits claimants? There should not be targets and people on universal credit should not have to wait 5 weeks without any money. Are they also going to drop the target to reduce the central government grant to local authorities to nil by 2020? Universal credit is part of creating a hostile environment for claimants. There's no support for people to work because people on the Universal Credit system have been treated in such a way that they've lost jobs because of sanctions and been sanctioned even when they've found a job. They never face the facts these politicians. They are la la la not listening. This government doesn't believe the government is there to actually DO anything or CHANGE anything. It must all be left to very imperfect market forces according to them, while they distance themselves from responsibility and wash their hands of it Pontius Pilate style. Just vote them out.
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  9418. Who wants to abandon their country so that Trump can develop it as a Trumpian holiday resort? Is Trump expecting Israel to clear Gaza for him?
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  9419. She was born that way
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  9420. *woman
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  9421. What does it say about the Queen's judgement that Andrew was her favourite son?
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  9422. The whinging of the spoilt and entitled who can't have everything they want in the middle of a pandemic. Thank goodness you weren't around in WW2.
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  9423.  @leon86s58  Why is your question relevant to my comment? My parents were around in that time and my elder sisters.
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  9424.  @leon86s58  And your scientific expertise on this subject is....? Would you rather we ended up like India?
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  9425.  @philippemartin7396  The experts put pandemic at the top of the list of risks in a report to the government, but the government ignored it. It will be a high risk in future because of the way humans live and exploit the animal world. We should not be eating wild animals that can carry many diseases. They do it in certain parts of the world, but then those diseases can spread worldwide.
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  9426. It very much depends on what it's changing it to.
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  9427.  @mikepelligrino6329  And this evidence is where?
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  9428.  @mikepelligrino6329  If you read the link you sent me, it says: 'The new coronavirus was circulating in Italy since September 2019, a study by the National Cancer Institute (INT) of the Italian city of Milan shows, signaling that Covid-19 might have spread beyond China earlier than previously thought.'. That's not saying it started outside of China. China and other countries in Asia were the first to suffer large numbers of cases. If the virus has started in Italy you would expect the first largest numbers of cases to be in Europe.
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  9429.  @mikepelligrino6329  But you linked that article as evidence, and that's not what the article says. It would need more evidence to trace back its origins. I understand that international researchers wanted to do, that but the Chinese government would not co-operate.
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  9430.  @garyvlahos635  Talking of warmongers. Trump had to be talked out of bombing Iran last week.
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  9431.  @tim40gabby25  Even if the last recounts all went to Trump he's too far behind Biden to win. However I agree that it would be preferable to wait out the final certifications with dignity. The irony is that Trump won by a similar margin in the previous election and Hillary Clinton conceded quickly. I've never seen such undignified behaviour before from the candidate who is behind.
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  9432.  @brianmck7363  No but if they hurry up and resolve things the new President can make a start quicker on trying to sort out the mess.
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  9433.  @sheeple937  It's global capitalism but that's not an 'agenda'. Capitalism is an economic and political system that has its own internal dynamics. People and governments only intervene to try and profit from those dynamics or regulate to mitigate them.
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  9434.  @sheeple937  I was just trying to explain that the system selects those for high places that will continue the system. It's not something that can easily be controlled but governments do have the possibility to save people from the worst aspects, if governments are made up of people with integrity. That's why it's important to consider carefully when voting. I prefer the systems in Scandinavia where governments have ensured a fairer distribution of wealth and taxation and are more environmentally considerate and they come up highest on the world 'happiness index'. However some people shy away from such a system calling it communist and persuade others to fear it. They are just social democracies really.
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  9435. In the world view of Boris supporters, anything that shows up his negative qualities is dismissed as lies, and anyone who questions what he does or what he says has to be slapped down including the media, Parliament and the Supreme Court. This is how the Nazis operated in Germany.
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  9436. I think she should not let it lick her on the mouth though.
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  9437. It's like a child asking questions but unlike a child, he doesn't seem to learn from asking questions.
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  9438.  @BarryR.  Pathetic.
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  9439.  @robertlocock5636  It seems so.
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  9440.  @johnm2012  O.K Fair enough.
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  9441. Seems like they want a dictator or they can't handle the truth.
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  9442. Ben Elliot is the son in law of Steve Winwood isn't he? That fact shocked me when I discovered it. I used to like Steve Winwood's music and I imagined he was a good egg. I can't imagine how that relationship goes.
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  9443.  @MrPistolpete1234  It's about 1 million.
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  9444. He said he asked her to put her dog on a leash as required by the signs in that part of the park and that he'd seen the dog rampaging through new planting areas and disturbing birds he wanted to see. She ignored his request. He then started filming her (for evidence, presumably. He must have been intending to report her) She got upset and asked him to stop filming. Then she came over to threaten him with the police.
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  9445. He did say there was no historical evidence of this event, as I recall.
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  9446.  @bernard6255  O.K. I must have been remembering the qualification from somewhere else. (Not this video)
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  9447. Gaetz has vampire teeth.
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  9448.  Sandj Zachstar  If only. At the very least, calling an elected official a 'stinking little virus' is vile. That's what I was responding to. I'm not playing cards.
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  9449.  Julie N  Then it just shows you up for what you are, calling someone a 'virus' but I was responding to the guy who called him 'a stinking little virus'.
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  9450. Disgraceful behaviour by Israeli forces.
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  9451. Hot water bottles are essential.
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  9452. It is for judges of the Supreme Court to interpret the law and the constitution. If there were no limits to a prorogation process, what's to stop the government from proroguing frequently or even permanently to get rid of democratic opposition which would turn us into a dictatorship. There have to be some limits. I don't rate Sharkey that much. As a historian, he makes mistakes in his history programmes, elementary errors.
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  9453.  @chinogambino9375  They're not docile serfs but they respect the law because if you have no law you have chaos with the strongest most violent bully prevailing. We've been through that already in history and learned from it. There are democratic ways to change the law if enough people vote to do so.
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  9454. It's almost like Boris Johnson is saying to his MPs, I'm as corrupt as anything but you won't get rid of me will you?
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  9455.  @sh.4409  There's no evidence that he was illiterate. It's just a theory.
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  9456.  @11Kslingshot  Putin saw Trump as a useful idiot.
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  9457.  @randycoursey7230  So how exactly did Trump 'keep them in check through strength'?. He went and told them how much he admired them.
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  9458.  @randycoursey7230  I have done. Here's 30 promises he broke.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZD_xyAjC-E&list=FLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=135&t=53s
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  9459.  @joschmo4497  It's a pity he's not respectable. He's such a liar. Also the US itself was not more peaceful under him. It was more divided and he fomented an attempted coup. He's anti democratic and tried all sorts of ways to keep himself in power. If he had been elected he would have undermined every democratic process that could oust him from power. Even when he lost an election he didn't acknowledge it and didn't want to leave office. If he gets in again there will be no removing him democratically. Why do you think he liked and admired Putin and Kim Jong Un? It's because these guys are autocrats who can't be removed from power and that's what Trump aspires to. Russia is run by a mafia like bunch of kleptocrats with their hands in the public wallet and that's what Putin would like too - all that money available to prop up his businesses and his family. He doesn't give a damn about truth or democracy.
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  9460.  @joschmo4497  'Brainwashed' is a cheap jibe used by those who have no better argument. I've followed events, and made my own mind up based on evidence. It caused me pain to follow Trump's twitterings. I was so glad when he was gone from the scene.
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  9461.  @joschmo4497  Not at all. I've listened to Trump a lot as well as people from different political viewpoints and some actual factual information. You like to believe what you believe it seems, and don't like that someone has a different opinion. You try to demean them for that.
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  9462.  @zombieaddict3784  Trump was only in power for 4 years. Trump broke the US deal with Iran. He recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, scuppering any peace plan for a Palestinian state and ensuring prolonged strife there. I can't say that he achieved anything in N.Korea but he did express admiration for these awful dictators, Kim Jong Un and Putin. He also tried to undermine democratic processes in the US. He admires those dictators as that's what he would like to be in order to do what he likes in the US - mainly enriching himself and his family at the expense of the state and staying in power for as long as he wants to. His businesses depended on a lot of Russian investment.
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  9463.  @zombieaddict3784  One thing he did was to publicly ask Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's emails. Even now he's not saying he would do anything to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine, if he were in Biden's position. He always says things like he's the greatest at everything ever and it would not have happened under him. That kind of boasting is easy enough but it's actions that count, not words, and especially not his words as they can't be relied on. What difficult situation has he ever handled successfully?
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  9464. Money on that scale never comes 'free'. There's no such thing as a free lunch. He who pays the piper calls the tune, etc etc etc
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  9465. @stesrad And little of what Trump says makes sense or is based on facts.
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  9466. There are countries that have decided to share the proceeds of capitalism more fairly, such as the Scandinavian countries.
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  9467.  @rogersmith8339  The Scandinavian countries still come high up on the happiness index. I think the UK could think the same way but we have a lot of propaganda influencing our mindsets and a first past the post election system where there are different parties but no meeting of minds for the greater good.
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  9468.  @rogersmith8339  Perhaps that's a possible mindset when the fear of poverty is removed.
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  9469. He represents a Leicester constituency. He has a Leeds accent.
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  9470. Farage trumpets more like.
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  9471. He's saying 'There's no way I lost Georgia so please make the evidence fit my view that I won, or I'll continue having a tantrum and giving you an ear bashing'. What a load of blather!
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  9472. Stop posting people's 'suggestions' Nigel if you know F all.
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  9473. Seems like no one is giving legal advice to Harry or if they are, he's not taking it.
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  9474. Except that the 3 mentioned in this video don't seem like good people.
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  9475. Huawei the lads!
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  9476. So rail workers and others are supposed to accept continual cuts in the value of their pay in order to court popularity? When will company bosses decide to take continual below inflation pay rises? Sorry but someone working on buses or retail don't require the same training and qualifications as a train driver and don't bear the same level of responsibilities. Why doesn't he compare MPs pay to that of retail workers then? When arguments are bankrupt, Tories resort to insults. I think the Tories are doing a better job or bringing down the country than the unions are.
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  9477. their. He didn't want to underplay the seriousness of the guy's condition.
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  9478. In early days of Brexit it struck me that it would be a problem for NI. The border is one thing but it goes wider than that. The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 was possible because of Human Rights legislation and Equality legislation which makes it illegal for one part of the population to discriminate against the other (the cause of the troubles in the 60s and 70s) but Leavers who are Tories have often said that they want to get rid of the Human Rights legislation which they think they can do once the UK is outside of the EU and allow them to remove some protections from people (workers for instance) - protections they disapprove of, but it would light a fire under NI again undermining the Good Friday Agreement. It would also suit the DUP to have hard border, because they see it as setting up a barrier against the risk of a United Ireland as does leaving the EU while the Republic of Ireland stays in the EU. They try to play down the risk of a hard border because they know it's not popular with many people in NI. Honesty is welcome but sadly honest information gets drowned out by ill-informed shouters.
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  9479. Do you mean defund? The BBC has an educational remit. You could benefit by watching.
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  9480.  @ironsights9448  affect
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  9481. The diabetic guy that can't afford food should go to a food bank. He needs to for the sake of his health.
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